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
behaviour and cooperation to solve such problems.
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