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Northern fisheries: managing income, nutrition and cultural values

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2014

Maria Nakhshina
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, School of Social Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3QY (mnakhshina@abdn.ac.uk)
Franz Krause
Affiliation:
Tallinna Ülikool, Eesti Humanitaarinstituut, Uus-Sadama 5, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia

Extract

Fishing is a key livelihood for many people worldwide, and significantly contributes to global nutrition. However, there is an awareness of a widespread crisis in fisheries with profound ecological, social and cultural impacts (Urquhart and others 2013). The majority of people dependent on fishing are involved in small-scale fisheries, which stands in contrast to the narrow focus of most fishery science and policy on large-scale, capital intensive fishing (Berkes and others 2001). Small-scale fisheries require different approaches for research, policy and management, due to their specific technological, economic and sociocultural characteristics that differ from those of large-scale fisheries, as well as a large degree of internal diversity in terms of fish stocks, fishers’ backgrounds, vessel capacity, etc (see Afterword of this collection of papers).

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Northern fisheries
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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