Abstract
Kamishima Island lies in the entrance channel of the Ise Bay, with an area of 0.75km2, and in the distance of 17.5km from Toba, the main land port of Shima Peninsula, Mie Prefecture.The Population of the island had decreased from 1, 248 in 1965, to 959 in 1970, for young people's moving-out requesting their employment chances in urban areas. The biggest business in the island is coastal fishery. Actually, however men are serving in fishery and women in farming. It is their custom that men never work on the farm. According to the 1970 Agricultural Census, there were 41 “farmers”, but disappeared in 1975 Census. The island had 2.5ha of cultivated field in 1975, compared with 4.5ha in 1970. Men are occupied in fishing or other businesses relating to fishing and the farming is entrusted to their wife or women who lost their husband, for vegitable-growing of self-supporting. Every cultivated field of a family is very small and have to work without agricultural machines.
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