Fisheries issues have been attracting increasing media attention in
the wake of contamination scares, controversies over new government
regulations, and environmental concerns about coastal zone
management--especially the loss of wetlands, coastal erosion,
pollution, and overfishing.
Scrutinizing the people, policies, institutions, and issues tied
to the shrimping industry in Mississippi, Paul Durrenberger
provides this first examination ever of the complexities of an
American fishing industry in a single geographical area. He
presents an analysis of one elaborate system--from the toils and
turmoils of the people who catch the shrimp to the quandaries
facing the policymakers who try to regulate them.
The shrimping industry, he contends, occurs on a series of
interrelated levels and dimensions and is influenced by the ideas
and actions of shrimpers, processors, fisheries managers,
bureaucrats, creditors, environmentalists, and scientists. It is
also one segment of a wider social, political, economic, and
environmental totality.
At a local level Durrenberger investigates the impact of
competition from Vietnamese refugees, rivalry between bay and gulf
fishermen, an escalating overpopulation of shrimpers in general,
and wide-spread resistance to costly, federally mandated devices
designed to save sea turtles. Exploring how the industry is
increasingly bound to the global economy, he illuminates the threat
to the livelihoods of independent shrimpers from ever increasing
imports.
Durrenberger assesses the adequacy of folk models of shrimpers
and policymakers alike. Decisions about the industry's future, he
argues, must be based on valid data and realistic expectations. Too
often policies are derived from untested folk models--concepts
formulated by participants to justify or rationalize rather than
explain what they do.
Based on detailed interviews, Gulf Coast Soundings will be a
valuable resource for anthropologists, policymakers, public
administrators, resource managers, sociologists, biologists, and
anyone involved or interested in the economic and environmental
future of the Gulf Coast, or more generally, in fisheries and
coastal areas.
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