Although the holders of Common Fishing rights are themselves part of the fishing community, their licensing by the Japan Fisheries Cooperatives (JF) is made use of to consider them members in the JF, allowing it to approve land reclamation projects by vote in its general assembly. Meanwhile, as those involved in Licensed and Non-licensed fishing are not part of such misrepresentation, there have been cases in which they are the ones to protect the ocean. In future, I expect we will see more cases in which Licensed and Non-Licensed fishermen work to protect the ocean from indiscriminate development.