Ethnicity and Fisheries Management

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."