Quota Policy and Local Fishing: Gendered Practices and Perplexities

• Main Author: Gerrard, Siri
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SISWO (The Netherlands Universities' Social Research Centre) 2008
• Subjects: VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Sosialantropologi: 250; VDP::Social science: 200::Social anthropology: 250; VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Kvinne- og kjønnsstudier: 370; VDP::Social science: 200::Women's and gender studies: 370; Barents Sea; Skarsvåg; Finnmark; Gadus morhua; Nordkapp
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/6664

In April 1989, the Norwegian fisheries authorities declared a moratorium on fishing by the Norwegian fleet for Barents Sea Cod (Gadus morhua). It subsequently introduced a multi-level boat quota system within the coastal cod fishery north of the sixty-second latitude in 1990. This paper treats the q...