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Managing inequality or managing stocks? An ethnographic perspective on the governance of small-scale fisheries

Fabinyi, Michael; Foale, Simon; Macintyre, Martha

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A growing volume of recent research on small-scale fisheries governance has a focus on local perspectives and priorities of small-scale fisherfolk. This paper develops from this local perspective a novel focus on what is a fundamental priority of many small-scale fishers: concerns about inequality. The paper begins with a critical review of the literature on small-scale fisheries governance and suggests how a focus on inequality can make a useful contribution. The paper uses case-studies of...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorFabinyi, Michael
dc.contributor.authorFoale, Simon
dc.contributor.authorMacintyre, Martha
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-14T23:18:51Z
dc.identifier.issn1467-2960
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/102647
dc.description.abstractA growing volume of recent research on small-scale fisheries governance has a focus on local perspectives and priorities of small-scale fisherfolk. This paper develops from this local perspective a novel focus on what is a fundamental priority of many small-scale fishers: concerns about inequality. The paper begins with a critical review of the literature on small-scale fisheries governance and suggests how a focus on inequality can make a useful contribution. The paper uses case-studies of small-scale fisheries in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the Philippines to highlight local priorities about inequality and the implications for small-scale fisheries governance. PNG and the Philippines have very different social, political and environmental contexts, yet in both cases, local inequalities were a key pre-occupation of fisherfolk and posed major challenges for fisheries governance. While in both of the case-studies, fishers were aware of and keen to act on resource sustainability, this concern was overridden by concerns over: who obtained benefits from the fishery; who was responsible for resource degradation; and who should bear the costs of regulation. We conclude by discussing how our emphasis on the importance of inequality at a local level can potentially be integrated within many influential approaches to small-scale fisheries governance.
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Inc.
dc.sourceFish and Fisheries
dc.titleManaging inequality or managing stocks? An ethnographic perspective on the governance of small-scale fisheries
dc.typeJournal article
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.citationvolume16
dc.date.issued2013
local.identifier.absfor050202 - Conservation and Biodiversity
local.identifier.absfor160104 - Social and Cultural Anthropology
local.identifier.ariespublicationa383154xPUB2487
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationFabinyi, Michael, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationFoale, Simon, James Cook University
local.contributor.affiliationMacintyre, Martha, University of Melbourne
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.bibliographicCitation.issue3
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage471
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage485
local.identifier.doi10.1111/faf.12069
dc.date.updated2016-06-14T08:29:59Z
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84937073393
CollectionsANU Research Publications

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