By: E. Paul Durrenberger, Thomas D. King

Hardcover

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Those who are involved with fishing and fisheries resource management-including fishermen, their communities, production, processing, distribution, and marketing industries, and various government and non-governmental organizations-confront the contradictions arising from the appropriation, allocation, and distribution of fisheries and marine resources in a variety of ways.

The authors call into question the assumptions of policy prescriptions to common resource problems by examining the experiences of people and societies confronted with and adapting to these resource appropriation, allocation, and distribution problems. They suggest that tragedies of resource depletion and institutional failure to deal with them are not characteristic of human nature, but rather are by products of particular cultural practices, institutions, and assumptions. The detailed, empirical ethnographic study of these relationships holds great potential for informing those who are making future policy decisions as well as contributing to the theories of human behavior and cooperation to solve such problems.

Figures and Tables	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Folk Management	p. 17
Of Beggars and Thieves: Customary Sharing of the Catch and Informal Sanctions in a Philippine Fishery	p. 19
The Privatization of Common-Property Resources in a Mexican Lobster Cooperative: Human Ecological Perspectives	p. 41
Between Economic Success and Ecological Resilience: Folk Management among Belizean Lobster Fishermen	p. 57
Nylon Nets and National Elites: Alata System of Marine Tenure among the Lau of Fanalei Village, Port Adam Passage, Small Malaita, Solomon Islands	p. 69
State and Centralized Management	p. 83
Resource Management, Social Class, and the State at a Muslim Fishing Village in Southern Thailand	p. 85
Language and "Limited Entry": The Formation of Texas Shrimping Policy	p. 103
Managing Resources: European Union Regional Dilemmas	p. 117
Tradition, Co-Management, Diversity, and the FAO in Small-Scale Inland Fisheries in Africa	p. 131
Co-Management	p. 149
With Blinders and Hobbles: Management of the Maine Lobster Industry	p. 151
Resolving the Stone Crab-Shrimp Fisheries Conflict: A Case of Implicit Co-Management	p. 169
Regional Co-Management in Pacific Salmon Fisheries	p. 187
Conclusion	p. 199
Sea Changes in Fisheries Policy: Contributions from Anthropology	p. 201
Bibliography	p. 219
Index	p. 243
About the Contributors	p. 251
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ISBN: 9780897897068
ISBN-10: 0897897064
Audience: General
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 264
Published: 30th May 2000
Publisher: ABC-Clio
Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.2  x 1.9
Weight (kg): 0.599