Ownership at Sea

Fishing Territories and Access to Sea Resources

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2465993
AutoresE Paul Durrenberger (University of Iowa), Gísli Pálsson (0000-0003-3545-0522, University of Iceland)
Año1987
Volumen14
Número3
Páginas508-522
Fecha de publicación1987-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/ae.1987.14.3.02a00060
OpenAlexW2006670302
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas43
Referencias citadas33

By showing that small-scale fishermen practice a number of forms of self-regulation, among them some that many have referred to as "property" at sea, anthropologists have challenged the assumptions of the "tragedy of the commons" model-that unregulated harvesting of a common-property resource is the cause of depletion of sea resources. Some have been inspired by ecological models of territoriality developed to explain the behavior of human foragers. We argue that rules of access to sea resources can only be understood in the context of the total socioeconomic system of which they form a part, including its land-based component. We also suggest that while the concept of ownership does apply to some forms of sea tenure, the extension of the concept to include informal rules of access is obfuscatory. [fishing, ownership, sea tenure, ecology, states

Agriculture · Biology · Common-pool resource · Commons · Context (archaeology · Economics · Environmental resource management · Extension (predicate logic · Fishery · Fishing · Geography · Land tenure · Natural resource · Political science · Property (philosophy · Property rights · Territoriality · Tragedy of the commons · Computer Science · Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies · Ecology · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law