Fishing People of the North: Cultures, Economies, and Management Responding to Change
27th Lowell Wakefield Fisheries Symposium
Anchorage, Alaska, USA
September 2011
Contact: Paula Cullenberg, pcullenberg@uaa.alaska.edu
This symposium will provide a forum for scholars, fishery managers, fishing families, and others to explore the human dimensions of fishery systems and growing need to include of social science research in policy processes. It will be a place for sharing what we have learned about the opportunities and constraints that fishing people in northern countries encounter in a time of significant environmental, social, and economic change.
We welcome diverse panels and presentations that address sources and effects of external impacts on fishing people and communities across northern countries–how impacts vary, who they affect, and strategies or characteristics of northern people that make them more or less adaptable to change. Seeking to understand how we more fully characterize the people and places that depend on the sea in the North, we will collectively investigate how diversity in values and livelihoods can be best incorporated into management processes.
