A cybernetic future for small-scale fisheries

• Published in: Maritime Studies
• Main Author: Brattland, Carina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 2015
• Subjects: Small-scale fisheries; Indigenous rural areas; Cyborgization; Vessel careers; Northern Norway; Norway; Porsanger; sami
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/281551; https://doi.org/10.1186/s40152-014-0018-1

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...