Studies on the Buriami Fishery in Yamagawa, Kagoshima Prefecture

Buriami fishery is one of traditional fishing in Japan that is awfully considered the fish behavior toward the fishing gear. This fishery is operated to catch the red sea bream and Japanese sea bream in spring to early summer. Burinawa is a long rope equipped with many white painted strip Buriki and stone weight in regular intervals, and used for herding fish school from rocky bottom to shore. The operations of Buriami fishery, the constructions of Burinawa and some kinds of net gear were investigated in comparison with those at other locations. The operation and fishing gears of Buriami fishery in Yamagawa are almost the same as those of ancient type. It seemed that Buriami fishery is propagated from Setouchi region to here in former times. Traditional fishing operation caught by blanket net still remained in this place. It was concluded that Buriami fishery in Yamagawa was old fashioned, but with modern devices, adopting to the environment of fishing ground