Mangahas, Maria (2006) 'Gear conflicts' and changing seascapes in Batanes, Philippines. Digital Library of the Commons, Indiana.
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This paper starts from two documents (from the years 1989 and 1993) that were apparently addressed at resolving serious 'gear conflicts' in two fishing areas in the islands of Batanes, the northernmost province of the Philippines. The documents are intriguing, both were privileging the traditional rights of matawfishing, a traditional hook and line method for catching dorado using flying fish as bait, over new "driftnet" technology for catching flying fish. On closer investigation, these in essence consist of challenges to the fishing calendar that is traditionally enforced by collectivities of fishers belonging to particular 'ports' or "vanua"s. A vanua denotes a particular landing spot, as well as a port-polity (a group of fishers that is organized, has laws and a leader), and which is ritually assembled at the beginning of the summer fishing season. Seeing 'Vanua-making' as a ritual technology aimed at collective success, what is really at issue in the conflicts between 'traditional' and new or 'modern' technologies are distinct common property regimes and opposed landscapes: a traditional notion of community and a cooperative framework for the commons on the one hand, coming into conflict with a modern view of atomized fishers and an 'open' sea on the other,
| Item Type: | Documents |
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| Class Number: | 500.GEA001 |
| Keywords: | Philippines, Fisheries Management, Fishing Gear, CPR, Access Rights, Conflict Management, Traditional Fisheries, Fishing Grounds, Gear Conflicts, Driftnet |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Varsha V icsf |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Mar 2022 05:31 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2022 05:31 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/10066 |
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