A cybernetic future for small-scale fisheries
This article discusses the future of indigenous Sami fisheries in cybernetic fisheries systems characterized by increasing effectivization and industrialisation. It empirically investigates the past and present development of a small-scale fjord fishery in Porsanger, northern Norway, which has been...
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ftniku:oai:niku.brage.unit.no:11250/281551 2023-05-15T17:43:24+02:00 A cybernetic future for small-scale fisheries Brattland, Carina 2015-03-30T05:39:13Z application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/11250/281551 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40152-014-0018-1 eng eng SpringerOpen urn:issn:2212-9790 http://hdl.handle.net/11250/281551 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40152-014-0018-1 cristin:1194927 Navngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no © Brattland; licensee Springer. 2014 CC-BY 18 Maritime Studies 1 Small-scale fisheries Indigenous rural areas Cyborgization Vessel careers Northern Norway Journal article Peer reviewed 2015 ftniku https://doi.org/10.1186/s40152-014-0018-1 2021-07-20T18:18:52Z This article discusses the future of indigenous Sami fisheries in cybernetic fisheries systems characterized by increasing effectivization and industrialisation. It empirically investigates the past and present development of a small-scale fjord fishery in Porsanger, northern Norway, which has been a major part of the material basis for indigenous Sami culture and settlements in the area. The article utilises historical vessel registries and fishers’ vessel career narratives from the post-war period to the present to analyse how relations between vessels, fishers, technology, ecology and the society at large have changed, and to what extent the small-scale fishery of the past seems to be disappearing in a fisheries system characterised by increasing cyborgization especially in the period after 1990. The main finding is an identification of diverse ways of organising the small-scale fishery in Porsanger in the past which had an influence on which types of vessels and fishers stayed put in the post-1990 period. This process was influenced not only by the introduction of the vessel quota system but also by ecological conditions and changing social and material relations in the local fisheries. In particular, the fishery with small open vessels with outboard engines experienced a golden age prior to the 1990s, but then abruptly decreased due to a combination of ecological conditions and management interventions. The fishery with decked, coastal fishing vessels however remained relatively stable throughout the period and continues to dominate the Porsanger small-scale fishery. The case study demonstrates diverse and flexible ways of organising relations in a coastal Sami community over time, thus implying that a cybernetic future may be possible also for small-scale fisheries. Nordområde Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Norway sami sami Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU): Brage Norway Porsanger ENVELOPE(24.956,24.956,70.052,70.052) Maritime Studies 13 1 |
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This article discusses the future of indigenous Sami fisheries in cybernetic fisheries systems characterized by increasing effectivization and industrialisation. It empirically investigates the past and present development of a small-scale fjord fishery in Porsanger, northern Norway, which has been a major part of the material basis for indigenous Sami culture and settlements in the area. The article utilises historical vessel registries and fishers’ vessel career narratives from the post-war period to the present to analyse how relations between vessels, fishers, technology, ecology and the society at large have changed, and to what extent the small-scale fishery of the past seems to be disappearing in a fisheries system characterised by increasing cyborgization especially in the period after 1990. The main finding is an identification of diverse ways of organising the small-scale fishery in Porsanger in the past which had an influence on which types of vessels and fishers stayed put in the post-1990 period. This process was influenced not only by the introduction of the vessel quota system but also by ecological conditions and changing social and material relations in the local fisheries. In particular, the fishery with small open vessels with outboard engines experienced a golden age prior to the 1990s, but then abruptly decreased due to a combination of ecological conditions and management interventions. The fishery with decked, coastal fishing vessels however remained relatively stable throughout the period and continues to dominate the Porsanger small-scale fishery. The case study demonstrates diverse and flexible ways of organising relations in a coastal Sami community over time, thus implying that a cybernetic future may be possible also for small-scale fisheries. Nordområde |
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A cybernetic future for small-scale fisheries |
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