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Fishing in murky waters--ethics and politics of research on fisher knowledge

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Fisher knowledge is increasingly seen as an important source of information for the management of fisheries and sought by both academics and managers. With reference to interviews with Norwegian fishers I will discuss problematic ethical and methodological aspects of such documentation. Fisher knowledge is embedded in a social and cultural context and transfer of knowledge is relational. Fisher knowledge is a professional asset, and contains information that is often known only to a small group of local people. Transferring fisher knowledge to science and management the question is what it implies for fishers to have their knowledge moved beyond its traditional borders.

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  • Maurstad, Anita, 2002. "Fishing in murky waters--ethics and politics of research on fisher knowledge," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 26(3), pages 159-166, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:marpol:v:26:y:2002:i:3:p:159-166
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    1. Paterson, Barbara, 2015. "Tracks, trawls and lines—Knowledge practices of skippers in the Namibian hake fisheries," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 60(C), pages 309-317.
    2. Eliasen, Søren Qvist & Bichel, Nikolaj, 2016. "Fishers sharing real-time information about “bad” fishing locations. A tool for quota optimisation under a regime of landing obligations," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 64(C), pages 16-23.
    3. Grilli, Gianluca & Curtis, John & Hynes, Stephen & O'Reilly, Paul, 2017. "Anglers’ views on stock conservation: Sea Bass angling in Ireland," Papers WP578, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
    4. Macdonald, P. & Angus, C.H. & Cleasby, I.R. & Marshall, C.T., 2014. "Fishers’ knowledge as an indicator of spatial and temporal trends in abundance of commercial fish species: Megrim (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) in the northern North Sea," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 45(C), pages 228-239.

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