Risky businesses : a perspective on fishers' risk in the oil versus fish dilemma in Lofoten and Vesterålen

• Main Author: Høgi, Mia
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universitetet i Tromsø 2010
• Subjects: VDP::Agriculture and fishery disciplines: 900::Fisheries science: 920::Resource biology: 921; fishers; Lofoten; Vesterålen; social construction of risk; oil; FSK-3910; Norway
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/2497

Being a fisher is considered to be one of the most dangerous occupations in the world. Injuries are common, and death is a recurring event. The fishers experience competition for the space they are utilize and in the most important fishing area in Norway, Lofoten and Vesterålen; the oil industry has...