The Political Economy of Fishing Rights and Claims: The Maori Experience in New Zealand

Alessi, Michael De

doi:10.1111/j.1471-0366.2011.00346.x

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“…For this reason, social and power relations and institutions that organize resource access, property, and ownership in resource systems (Ribot and Peluso 2003, Mansfield 2007, Sikor and Lund 2009, Campling et al 2012, De Alessi 2012, Havice and Reed 2012, as well as processing, marketing, and trade issues across multiple scales, are important to the understanding of the implementation and effects of certification and eco-labeling in particular contexts. These relations and institutions proved significant in shaping the different certification experiences of the Mexican and Canadian cooperatives.…”

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Certifying the commons: eco-certification, privatization, and collective action

Foley¹,

McCay²

2014

E&S

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ABSTRACT. We examine new dynamics of privatization and collective action in common pool resource situations facilitated by the nonstate multistakeholder institutions of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), the global leader in sustainability certification for wild caught seafood. Through a review of the literature and two case studies of fishing cooperatives in Baja California Sur, Mexico and on Fogo Island in the Canadian Province of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), we advance two interrelated arguments. First, certification and eco-labeling institutions privatize fisheries governance in largely unexamined ways through the injection of new forms of exclusive rights or privileges into common pool resource situations already complicated by access and property privileges, creating conditions for confusion and conflict as well as cooperation. Second, the MSC whole stock definition of sustainability places greater demands on certification clients for engaging in collective action by encouraging coordination over all social extractions from targeted fish stocks. Although rules encouraging collective action in common pool situations militate against the narrow private capture of certificate and eco-label rights, they also undermine the ability of small-scale and community-based fisheries that are embedded in larger unhealthy fishery contexts to acquire the right to the MSC stamp of sustainability. We conclude that MSC certification and ecolabeling create new institutions of private property rights and collective action, which can result in exclusionary practices, inclusionary collective action, or both. Much will depend on the specific common pool context and history of the fishery.

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Certifying the commons: eco-certification, privatization, and collective action

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McCay²

2014

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“…Several papers in this issue touch on fishers' and fish processors' organizations in India (Sinha), Canada (Foley; Howse et al.), the USA (Marks), PNG (Havice and Reed) and South Africa (Howse et al.). De Alessi reveals how Maori in New Zealand organized around their indigenous identity and waged large‐scale political protests, in part, to reclaim access to coastal fisheries resources that their ancestors extracted before and during the colonial era.…”

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“…This theme connects the unique features of fisheries resources to the mechanisms that govern productive relations in fisheries. Three papers centre on this theme, each conceptualizing ‘access’ differently: from historical struggles by Maori over fisheries access rights in New Zealand (De Alessi), to the use of resource sovereignty by the Papua New Guinea state in an attempt to lure fish processing investment onshore (Havice and Reed), and to the commercial struggles around ecolabelling among fishing and processing firms seeking to secure resource access in Canada (Foley). Here, we draw on these and other papers in this issue to summarize the dynamics by which fishers and fishing‐related firms secure resource access.…”

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The Political Economy and Ecology of Capture Fisheries: Market Dynamics, Resource Access and Relations of Exploitation and Resistance

Campling

Havice

Howard³

2012

Journal of Agrarian Change

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Capture fisheries are constituted through historically specific environmental conditions and social and economic relations of production. Fisheries, whether saltwater or freshwater, are an important source of animal protein, livelihoods and exchange value in international trade, and are presently undergoing rapid socio‐ecological change. To explore the political economy and ecology of capture fisheries around the world, this paper synthesizes the insights of 11 empirical studies and places fisheries in the broader context of the capitalist relations of production through which they operate. The competitive market dynamics of fisheries production and consumption are examined, as well as the forms of social‐property relations, social differentiation, labour exploitation and resistance that occur within them. This paper highlights some of the ways in which the unique combination of characteristics associated with fish and fisheries complement and complicate familiar questions in agrarian political economy. It concludes by identifying future research directions.

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“…Within this nexus, political economists have explored how states and fishing interests interact around marine resource property relations and allocation politics, including by detailing the ways that rights granted to one party impact other parties' resource access (Mansfield 2004; Hanich and Tsamenyi 2009; Campling et al. 2012; De Alessi 2012; Foley 2012).…”

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Fishing for Development? Tuna Resource Access and Industrial Change in Papua New Guinea

Havice

Reed

2012

Journal of Agrarian Change

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Papua New Guinea (PNG) is an island state with sovereign rights over valuable tuna resources. Historically, PNG captured value from tuna only by charging licensing fees to foreign fishing fleets, which relegated PNG as a source of raw material for the global tuna industry. To capture more value from tuna – including much‐needed jobs and infrastructure – the PNG government now offers firms that invest in domestic tuna processing plants strategic, long‐term fishing licences. This strategy of ‘obligating embeddedness’ enables PNG to reorder the international division of labour in the canned tuna sector, but socio‐economic outcomes are shaped by competition within the global tuna industry, the core business strategies of foreign firms and domestic conditions in PNG. Ultimately, a state's right to control the terms of access to tuna is not synonymous with its ability to shape the local‐level consequences that emerge as firms comply. These findings reveal the peculiar nature of state sovereignty over pelagic marine resources and the complications of exploiting them to achieve domestic economic and social objectives.

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The Political Economy of Fishing Rights and Claims: The Maori Experience in New Zealand

Cited by 46 publications

References 45 publications

Certifying the commons: eco-certification, privatization, and collective action

Certifying the commons: eco-certification, privatization, and collective action

The Political Economy and Ecology of Capture Fisheries: Market Dynamics, Resource Access and Relations of Exploitation and Resistance

Fishing for Development? Tuna Resource Access and Industrial Change in Papua New Guinea

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