Boat crew

Japanese: 船組 - ふなぐみ

There are four different uses of this word. (1) It refers to a group of boat owners, such as boat owners and boatmen, who come together to cooperate with each other in order to produce fish. In Mitsu, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, a group of boats called kumibune is used to catch mullet. In this case, when several boats cannot be gathered together to surround a school of fish, the organization and cooperative system is called funagumi. (2) It refers to a boat association formed by boat owners who catch the same fish species in order to restrict the number of fishing boats and exclude others in order to monopolize fishery production.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

この言葉には四つの使いわけがある。(1)船主･船頭等の漁船所有者が数人以上あつまり，漁業生産をおこなうため，相互扶助的な面でかかわりをもつこと。広島県の安芸郡三津などでは，ボラ漁の際に〈ケタ船〉があつまることを〈組船（くみぶね）〉というが，このように漁船が何隻もあつまらなければ魚群を囲めないような場合，その組織，協力体制を船組とよぶ。(2)同魚種の漁獲をおこなう船主たちが，漁業生産を独占的におこなうために〈漁船制限〉をおこなって，他を排除しようとするために結成する〈船の組合〉をいう。

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