Anthropological Applications in the Management of Federally Managed Fisheries: Context, Institutional History, and Prospectus

Colburn, Lisa L.; Abbott-Jamieson, Susan; Clay, Patricia M.

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“…; Brookfield, Gray and Hatchard ; Jacob, Jepson and Farmer ; Olson ; Clay and Olson , ; Macinko ; Phillipson and Symes ). Fishing activity and economic data predominate the operationalisation of the term, but many cite how such means fall short (Kasimis and Petrou ; Phillipson ; Symes ; Colburn, Abbott‐Jamieson and Clay ; Abbott‐Jamieson and Clay ). Attention to social and cultural elements and their incorporation into the definition connect especially to the multiple meanings of community (Nuttall ; Olson ; Ross , ).…”

Section: Conceptualising Fisheries Dependencementioning

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Existential fisheries dependence: Remaining on the map through fishing

Ounanian

2019

Sociologia Ruralis

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This article considers how remoteness, rurality, and local initiatives combine to enable community responses to the threat of fisheries enclosure. Centred on two case studies from a wider portfolio of six cases in Northern Jutland, Denmark and New England, USA, the article presents a narrative of these places based on semi‐structured interviews and participant observation. Thorupstrand, Denmark and Cutler, Maine, USA exemplify communities fighting to retain access to fisheries under enclosure and recognition of this threat. Lacking alternatives due to their geographic and infrastructural isolation, the two cases typify existential fisheries dependence, indicating that they would not be on the map without fishing to sustain them.Their precarious positions compelled many in the communities to act and preserve the fishing industry and culture. Although Thorupstrand and Cutler diverge in their approaches to maintaining fishing access, they collectively speak to the overlooked connection between fisheries management and rural places.

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Section: Conceptualising Fisheries Dependencementioning

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Existential fisheries dependence: Remaining on the map through fishing

Ounanian

2019

Sociologia Ruralis

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“…Moving from the realm of economic development to sustainable development, conservation, and management, another example of contemporary fisheries design comes from Colburn and colleagues (2006). These authors provide a useful institutional history of federal marine management in the United States.…”

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“…These authors provide a useful institutional history of federal marine management in the United States. The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) hired its first anthropologist in 1974 following the development of the notion of maximum sustainable yield and the idea that this notion required that “we would manage people—fish don't listen to you” (Colburn et al 2006:232). Anthropologists at the NMFS examined the impact of regulation on community organization and function, and anthropology becoming a full‐blown NMFS program in the 1990s.…”

Section: What Is Natural About Fisheries?mentioning

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THE AQUATIC INVADERS: Marine Management Figuring Fishermen, Fisheries, and Lionfish in The Bahamas

Moore

2012

Cultural Anthropology

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A FISH STORYFisheries are prominent sites for the study of interconnection. In the life sciences, studies linking social and ecological processes have resulted in the development of specific concepts that represent these linkages, such as coupled natural and human systems and biocomplexity (Colwell 1998). These forms of interdisciplinary research rearticulate an earlier focus on fisheries regulation and common pool resource management centered around fishing communities, complicating the imagined relationship between those whose livelihoods stem from the sea and those whose lives are harvested from the water: the relationship of fisher and fished. This article is an analysis of the ways marine conservation management frames the relationships among people, natural resources, and animals within fisheries in The Bahamas. 1 I argue that with these ongoing rearticulations fisheries become conceptualized as a form of relation between human and nonhuman that produces and naturalizes ideas of fish and fishermen to the detriment of a more complex understanding of fisheries events and processes. The story of the lionfish in The Bahamas illustrates this problem.In 2008, I assisted a young Bahamian graduate student in her field study of lionfish attraction to artificial reefs around the island of New Providence. The study was the main component of her thesis for a master's degree in Zoology at a Canadian university, and I helped the student find her artificial reefs in the shallow water, which helped her save energy as she swam in heavy dive gear behind our

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“…A boost to the NMFS program occurred when the 1996 Sustainable Fisheries Act included amendments mandating that NMFS take into account the effects of fishery management alternatives on fishing communities' “sustained participation” in the fishery, and to minimize adverse effects on the communities to the extent possible (Clay and Olson 2007). Funding for the growing network of anthropologists and social scientists in regional offices and science centers was at last included in the FY2001 budget (Colburn et al 2006).…”

Section: Where Do Anthropologists Work? Institutionalization Of Anthrmentioning

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“…At the U.S. Census Bureau (Department of Commerce), anthropologists have played a critical role in identifying the causes of and recommendations for overcoming the offices and science centers was at last included in the FY2001 budget (Colburn et al 2006).…”

Section: W H E R E D O a N T H R O P O L O G I S T S W O R K ? I N S mentioning

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Working for the Federal Government: Anthropology Careers

Fiske

2008

NAPA Bulletin

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The federal government is arguably the largest employer of anthropologists outside of academia. The most comprehensive data on numbers of anthropologists are from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. These data and their limitations are described. This chapter argues that applied and practicing anthropology are at historic employment levels, with at least five agencies having “institutional presence” of in‐house anthropologists. Much of the growth is based on statutes enacted in the 1960s and 1970s, and solidified by anthropologists who codified their use around agency missions. Five agencies with institutional presence are highlighted, as examples of careers in the federal government. In addition the chapter describes careers and career paths in the federal government for a number of specialty areas including international development, both as a consultant and as a full‐time permanent government employee, cultural resource management, the legislative branch, forensic and physical anthropology, natural resource management, and defense and security sectors, by using interviews and career cameos of senior anthropologists in those agencies. The chapter concludes with specific information on where to find vacancy announcements and how to respond to them; collective experience of lessons learned in seeking federal careers; and the author's views on the importance of engagement for anthropologists in policies, issues, and program management in the federal sector.

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Anthropological Applications in the Management of Federally Managed Fisheries: Context, Institutional History, and Prospectus

Cited by 14 publications

References 4 publications

Existential fisheries dependence: Remaining on the map through fishing

Existential fisheries dependence: Remaining on the map through fishing

THE AQUATIC INVADERS: Marine Management Figuring Fishermen, Fisheries, and Lionfish in The Bahamas

Working for the Federal Government: Anthropology Careers

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