Foregone harvests and neoliberal policies: Creating opportunities for rural, small-scale, community-based fisheries in southern Alaskan coastal villages

• Main Author: Langdon, Steve J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Metlakatla; tlingit; Yakutat; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X15000561

Neoliberal policies of effort limitation and privatization have reduced commercial salmon and other fishing opportunities available to the coastal, predominantly Alaska Native, villages of southern Alaska. However, there are a variety of circumstances, including the manner in which the current comme...