- Title
- The use of optimal foraging theory to assess the fishing strategies of Pacific Island artisanal fishers: A methodological review
- Creator
- Shankar, Aswani
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 1998
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/440038
- Identifier
- vital:73730
- Description
- Artisanal fisheries play a major role in the social, cultural, and economic life of most Pacific Islanders, particularly in rural communities where people are highly dependent on marine resources for subsistence and commercial purposes. Yet, marine resources are being threatened by pressure from exploding human populations and the increasing commercialisation of the subsistence fishery—circumstances which are now forcing researchers to find novel ways to examine issues of coastal management and marine resource conservation. Among the most recent approaches to coastal management has been to study marine ecological processes in conjunction with those of the contiguous shoreline and upland habitats, or what has been termed Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM). From the standpoint of maritime anthropology, any comprehensive study of the integration of marine and terrestrial biotic components requires the parallel consideration of human activities, including existing property regimes, resource access and distribution rules, and resource exploitation strategies. Although numerous studies have concentrated on the social aspects of Pacific Island artisanal fisheries (eg Johannes, 1981; Hviding, 1996; Lieber, 1994), few have dealt explicitly with the micro-ecology of daily humanmarine interactions (see Aswani, 1997; Bird and Bird, 1997). Such neglect has hampered attempts to fully integrate studies of environmental coastal processes with those of human activities. In this paper, I examine the utility of optimal foraging theory and its methodology, as applied to the study of Pacific Island artisanal fishers. The inclusion of foraging theory can contribute to building a clearer anthropological model to describe the relationship between human foraging and fishery management.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (8 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Pacific Community
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Traditional Marine Resource Management and Knowledge Information Bulletin, The use of optimal foraging theory to assess the fishing strategies of Pacific Island artisanal fishers: A methodological review, Traditional Marine Resource Management and Knowledge Information Bulletin, 9, 19 - 26, Traditional Marine Resource Management and Knowledge Information Bulletin volume 9 p. 19 1998 1025-7497
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- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Rights
- Open Access
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