As populations of many fish species worldwide have declined, the price of fuel has
increased, and coastal development has mushroomed, fishing communities have suffered …

Small-scale fishing, a house-hold based enterprise in Puerto Rico, rarely provides sufficient
income for a family, but it anchors their culture and sense of themselves within that culture …

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Between 1990 and 1996,
the US Congress passed market-based reforms in the areas of civil rights, welfare, and …

Chile has been attempting to establish a Management Area (MA) system that melds the use
of marine protected areas with marine tenure. The process has brought to the fore the …

Characterizations of fishing communities range from containers of cultural traditions to sites
of resistance, from places of management to spaces of global connection. We review key …

A heated debate developed in South Africa as to the meaning of 'deliberative democracy'.
This debate is fanned by the claims of 'traditional leaders' that their ways of village-level …

Getting communities involved in resource management has seen increasing attention from a
variety of disciplines. Within anthropology, sociology, geography, political science-even in …

The oceans are not only being transformed through privatization as management moves
towards market mechanisms, the oceans are also being “zoned”, with zoning increasingly …

This book is intended as a contribution to our understanding of the uncertain situation of
small-scale fisheries (SSF) which face marginalisation in most coastal countries, and …

For more than 200 years, commercial fishing was the most important economic activity in
Key West, Florida. Over the last 20 years however, this way of life has been squeezed off the …