This book is a narrative non-fiction, based on the patchy epistemologies of traditional small-scale fishers in India and the Indian Ocean region. It specifically explores the impact of climate change on Fish and Fishers, and the mutual entanglements in their eco-social world. Further, it critically examines the nature of climate change adaptation and its implications on small-scale fisheries. Both climate change impact and adaptation responses are examined from the situated knowledge and everyday lived experiences of Fishers. Stories of their everyday struggles from diverse eco-social worlds shape these patchy epistemologies. Further, this book through these stories unearths the transitions in governance and changing relationships between Fish, Fishers, and the rest of the eco-social world. Responding ethically to the problems of climate change, warming oceans, fish scarcity, overfishing, and pollution requires us to break away from the paradigms that locate Nature and Society as binaries and commodities. Blue justice can be achieved only if strategies aimed at adaptation, conservation and well-being are dialogical, inclusive, and Fish-Fisher centred. This book offers insights into the worldviews of Fishers and their stewardship, wisdom, and experience in healing today’s warming world. Locating the eco-social worlds of Fish and Fishers in alternative worldviews, this book strives to find meaningful pathways for just transitions. It will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the field of climate change, fisheries, disaster studies, and sustainable livelihoods as well as related subjects of social work and social justice.

In this book, the author explores the institutional dynamics that manifest in the sustainable management of inland fishery resources in the state of Kerala, India. Specifically, this book analyses the social interfaces that emerge in the context of modernised forms of fisheries governance and culturally/traditionally rooted resource management practices. This study demonstrates that sustainability as a process is never linear in nature, and institutions involved in resource management appear, disappear, and re-emerge at different time-space dimensions.This study also demonstrates how the experiences and perspectives of multiple actors involved in riverine fisheries management merge through the processes of co- operation, accommodation or conflict to generate newly emergent forms of organisation, practices and understanding. This book is a significant addition to the existing debates on the governance and sustainability of common pool resources.