Paradise in peril: Threatened by a dwindling fishery, the Biak people of Indonesia’s Padaido islands are trying to cash in on their fishing culture

Novaczek, Irene (1998) Paradise in peril: Threatened by a dwindling fishery, the Biak people of Indonesia’s Padaido islands are trying to cash in on their fishing culture. Samudra Report (20). pp. 8-10. ISSN 0973 1121

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Abstract

In the village of Pasi in the Padaido Islands of Biak, Irian Jaya, virtually everyone is a fisher. Male or female, young or old, people’s thoughts turn naturally to the sea. Their songs and dances are celebrations of the beauty and bounty of nature. Their native language is replete with descriptors for the many moods and depths of the sea, the variety of reefs, the shapes of corals and the myriad reef fishes. From the high forest called Mbrur down to Sorenberamen, the deep blue sea, the Biak people have names for each of what modern science would call the island’s ecozones.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.SAM0250
Keywords:	Samudra Report, ICSF, Indonesia, Fisheries Management, Fishing Communities, Culture Fisheries, Resources Management, Monitoring
Subjects:	Right to Resources
Depositing User:	Varsha V icsf
Date Deposited:	30 Oct 2021 18:43
Last Modified:	30 Mar 2022 15:58
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/640

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