Learning by fishing: Practical science and scientific practice

Reference Type Book Chapter
Year of Publication
1994
Contributors Author: Gísli Pálsson
Book Title
Paper presented at Property Rights and the Performance of Natural Resource Systems: Social and Ecological Systems for Presilience and Sustainability, August 29-30, 1994
Date Published
08/1994
Publisher
Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, The Royal Academy of Sciences
City
Stockholm, Sweden
Language
English
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GB651.N3
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Abstract
In many fisheries, resource management is largely informed by professional marine biologists and public officials. Such management often assumes that the extensive knowledge that fisherfolk have achieved, after years of practical experience, is of relatively little use indeed, in many cases there is very little attempt to utilize such knowledge in ecological research and in the process of decision-making. At the same time, much recent research indicates that, given the uncertain (if not chaotic) nature of marine ecosystems, practitioners' knowledge - knowledge gained on the spot, in the course of production - is of key importance. The aim of the present project is to explore, with particular reference to Icelandic fishing, how indigenous producers acquire knowledge about the ecosystem within which they operate, how their knowledge about the ecosystem within which they operate, how their knowledge differs from that of professional biologists, and to what extent the former could be brought more systematically into the process of resource management for the purpose of ensuring sustainability. (author)
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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36470157
Conference Name
Property Rights and the Performance of Natural Resource Systems: Social and Ecological Systems for Presilience and Sustainability
Number of pages
12 pp.
Short Title
Learning by fishing