Ethnicity and Fisheries Management

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1959
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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Karlsen, Geir R.
Conference:	Reinventing the Commons, the Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property
Location:	Bodoe, Norway
Conf. Date:	May 24-28, 1995
Date:	1995
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1959
Sector:	Fisheries
Region:	Europe
Subject(s):	IASC common pool resources fisheries Sámi (European people) indigenous institutions ethnicity
Abstract:	"This paper discusses issues arising from application of ethnic rights in fisheries management, using data from the present debate in Norwegian fisheries management on the establishment of a Saami Fisheries Zone. The Saami is a Fennoskandian ethnic group, and the Saami Parliament - their politically representative institution - have recently proposed a semi-independendent fisheries management system administered by the parliament. Concretely, they demand that part of the Norwegian quota of Norwegian-Atlantic cod is transferred to the Saami Parliament, which then manages the quota. In addition, the Saami Parliament acquires sovereignity over a specified ocean area outside the coast of Nordland, Troms and Finnmark, where the quota can be caught."

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