The ghosts of fisheries management
Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research, DOI:10.1080/19390459.2012.642634
The scientific analysis and management of fisheries has been dominated by three
institutional orthodoxies: state regulation, market exchange and community-based management. This
paper argues that these static, substantive, metaphors obscure a consideration of the dynamic temporal
interplay between stakeholders and their environment.To address this vacuity the paper outlines
a process-sociological approach and applies it to the historical development of fisheries management
in the Tam Giang Lagoon, in Central Vietnam.
The analysis shows that the interplay between different
groups of fishers, the Vietnamese state, and the lagoon environment, over time, structures future
struggles. As such, this interplay needs to be understood as a causal force of its own in the development
of fisheries management. Endorsement of the analysis raises important questions concerning
the potential of policy and planning to control fisheries.
Available online 19 December 2011
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