Bills of Fare, Consumer Demand, Social Status, Ethnicity, and the Collapse of California Abalone

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7843918
AutoresT J Braje (0000-0002-3138-1665, San Diego State University, autor de correspondencia), Linda Bentz (0000-0002-8444-1350, Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, 411 Bernard Street, Los Angeles, CA. 90012.)
Año2021
Volumen41
Número2
Páginas277-291
Fecha de publicación2021-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Ethnobiology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0278-0771 • E-ISSN: 2162-4496
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2993/0278-0771-41.2.277
OpenAlexW3197431002
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas33

Since at least the mid-nineteenth century, California's Pacific Coast has been an epicenter of global commercial fishing activities. Decades of intensive harvest, pollution, anthropogenic climate change, and disease, however, have resulted in the collapse of many of the state's most important and profitable fisheries. Much of the research designed to understand the processes and consequences of this crisis of the oceans has focused on production issues—the number of fish that live in and are harvested from the ocean. Here, we turn our attention to consumption issues and explore how market-forces, status, ethnicity, and evolving perceptions of food can drive fisheries collapse. We use the rise and fall of the California abalone ( Haliotis spp.) fishery as a case study and compile data on the price of abalone dishes from bills of fare, primarily in southern California, dating between 1901 and 2005. We explore how and why restaurant prices for abalone dishes changed over the last century and the role of consumer demand (or taste) and social status in influencing the health and stability of fish stocks

Abalone · Biology · Ethnic group · Fishery · Fishing · Geography · Overexploitation · Political science · Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies · Marine and fisheries research · Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies