Folk management and local knowledge: Lobster fishing and tourism at caye caulker, Belize
Titel:
Folk management and local knowledge: Lobster fishing and tourism at caye caulker, Belize
Auteur:
King, Thomas D.
Verschenen in:
Coastal management
Paginering:
Jaargang 25 (1997) nr. 4 pagina's 455-469
Jaar:
1997
Inhoud:
Fishers from Caye Caulker, Belize, practice a territorial folk management system, which has contributed to level production of lobsters for over 30 years. This, in association with cooperative organization, has brought high economic returns to fishers. Tourism development on the caye has created a new market for lobsters, which has motivated some fishers to harvest undersized, prereproductive lobsters to sell to local restaurants. Data from interviews and observations suggest that this local system of resource management may be threatened, because of a local market for lobsters which has emerged with the growth of tourism at Caye Caulker. These unsustainable practices, coupled with an underfunded, understaffed, and in the fishers ' experience, usually uncooperative Fisheries Department makes enforcement of state-level fisheries laws next to impossible. Caye Caulker fishers face challenging questions concerning how they will practice in and perceive the fishery, which includes participation with and perception of Belize's Fishery Department. Can their local adaptations prove resilient and sustainable in this rapidly changing socioeco-nomic environment?
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