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This chapter explores the relationship of humans and nature in Hinase to further understand the details behind the eelgrass restoration activity. Fishers have been struggling to adapt to changes in nature and society and have discussed and decided on a course of action according to what they confront in obtaining direct and indirect support from surrounding societies. Local governments, national governments, experts, and academics have supported fishers directly, while people in Hinase other than fishers have supported fishers’ activities indirectly by consuming their catch and promoting fishery-related activities such as tourism. The chapter also reviews the social structure of fishers from the viewpoint of the “commons” by describing the changes in fishers’ social structures from the past to the present. In the past, fishers had different characteristics, such as unity (Tsuboami Group), individualism (O-kogi Group), and awareness of cooperation (Oyster Group). However, after oyster farming became popular, fishers who use different fishing methods started to engage in oyster farming, which shifted the HFCA characteristics from an enterprising spirit to cohesion. This shift contributed to ensuring the eelgrass restoration activity continued even after the Tsuboami group faced aging and a lack of successors. Finally, the chapter examines this book’s entire theme “to explore ethnographic information about the marine conservation activity in Hinase, namely, the fishers’ self-motivated eelgrass restoration activity” by reflecting the discussion points in each chapter and revising some of the major ideas accepted under current international marine environmental policies.

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Tsurita, I. (2022). The Sun Is Born. In: Ethnographic Study of Marine Conservation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0456-1_6

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