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Place-based fishing livelihoods and the global ocean: the Irish pelagic fleet at home and abroad

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

This paper examines the development of the Irish pelagic fleet and how it has impacted place-based fishing livelihoods in southwest County Donegal, both positively and negatively. As part of this effort, we consider how shifting local and global sociopolitical realities have shaped linkages between resource access and people-place connections in southwest Donegal. We pay particular attention to how Irish fishing opportunities, both at home and abroad, are created and constrained under EU governance and how this drives the displacement of fishing livelihoods from coastal southwest Donegal. We identify power as a key and dynamic mechanism underlying fishery systems in the Irish context. Drawing on interview and ethnographic data we discuss how power is perceived and exercised among local fishery stakeholders, and how this in turn works to shape contemporary adaptive strategies in rural fishery dependent Ireland.

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eng

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0308645

Arts, Faculty of; Non UBC; Anthropology, Department of

10.1186/s40152-015-0038-5

Faculty

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