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Table 4.1 Other funds concerning agriculture, forestry, and fisheries
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Name of fund: Early Establishment Fund for Regional Renewable Energy Models
Name of entities the fund belongs to: Organization for Food-marketing Structure Improvement
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Table 4.1 Other funds concerning agriculture, forestry, and fisheries
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Name of fund: Control Project Fund
Name of entities the fund belongs to: Sea and Beach Environment Beautification and Oil Pollution Control Organization
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Table 4.1 Other funds concerning agriculture, forestry, and fisheries
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Name of fund: Fishery Management Stabilization Fund
Name of entities the fund belongs to: National Federation of Fisheries Kyosai Associations
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Table 4.1 Other funds concerning agriculture, forestry, and fisheries
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Name of fund: Project Fund for Construction of Fishery Management Safety Net
Name of entities the fund belongs to: Fisheries Management Stabilization Promotion Association
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Table 4.1 Other funds concerning agriculture, forestry, and fisheries
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Name of fund: Livestock Advancement Support Leasing Fund
Name of entities the fund belongs to: Livestock Industry Environment Improvement Organization
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4.32. The MAFF [the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries] continues to provide direct payments to farmers who produce crops other than table rice in the paddy field (the Direct Payments for Rice Paddy Utilization), to optimize the use of paddy fields, against the background of diminishing domestic demand for rice. According to the authorities, this scheme aims to maintain the favourable environment of paddy fields and prevent floods or soil erosion, cultivate water resources, and preserve the natural environment through effective use of paddy fields. (...)The Payments are made when producers meet at least three of specific requirements including those for environmental protection such as direct sowing seeding and efficient fertilization, in order to promote cultivation of paddy field. (...)

4.48. Japan's latest overall strategy is defined by the revised Basic Plan for Fisheries, which was issued on 25 March 2022. The aim of the strategy remains to enhance fisheries' sustainable resource management, make fisheries a growing industry through increased productivity, and maintain fisheries communities and increase their revenues. (...)Actions and programmes to that effect include promoting international cooperation regarding resource management; (...); facilitating the use of eco-labelling; and utilizing measures to discourage illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing.

4.49. Overall responsibility for national fisheries policies lies with the Fisheries Agency in the MAFF[the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries], while prefectural governments are responsible for local issues, such as management of local fisheries resources.

4.50. The main laws concerning the fisheries sector include the Fishery Act of 1949 (last amended in 2022); the Basic Act on Fisheries of 2001 (last amended in 2020); the Fisheries Cooperative Association Act (last amended in 2022); the Act to Ensure Sustainable Aquaculture Production of 1999 (last amended in 2018); the Act on the Exercise, etc. (...)Under the Fishery Act, national and prefectural governments have responsibility for appropriate conservation and management of fisheries resources. In principle, fisheries resources shall be managed with a goal to achieve the Maximum Sustainable Yield through Total Allowable Catch management. Fishers must engage in fisheries management in order to be eligible for some government support programmes for the establishment of environmentally and economically sustainable fisheries.

4.54. Japan remains a member of the following Regional Fisheries Management Organizations: (...)International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna; Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna; (...) Convention on the Conservation and Management of Pollock Resources in the Central Bering Sea; North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission; Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources; (...); and Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources. (...)