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dc.contributor.authorTsiouvalas, Apostolos
dc.contributor.authorEvans, Jen
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-21T13:00:11Z
dc.date.available2023-08-21T13:00:11Z
dc.date.issued2023-05-02
dc.description.abstractAlthough exclusive common pool resource management regimes have locally been applied since time immemorial in many coastal and fjord areas, in the legal conceptualization of space, the oceans and their living resources were traditionally treated as a “global commons.” The idea of restricting access to coastal oceanic resources and delegating their governance to state instruments has become increasingly popular since the middle of the previous century when political economy models predicted the eventual overexploitation or degradation of all resources used in common. While state jurisdictions overall continue to preserve the idea of common access to marine living resources for a state’s people, the rapid privatization of marine living resources and the subsequent development of aquaculture over the last few decades, often confront this understanding, leading to enclosure of a delineated maritime area that was initially intended to be accessible to the public. Enclosing the sea for the purpose of aquaculture development leads to a semantic change in property institutions that govern coastal areas and provides for a form of enclosure of the commons in key locations designated for marine aquaculture development. This article explores the concept of “ocean commons” and debates how the enclosure of common areas for the purposes of aquaculture development may collide with Indigenous and local conceptions of common pool resource management. The article applies this theoretical investigation on two examples from Canada and Norway, and suggests that rethinking aquaculture development in coastal waters through the lens of “ocean commons” may provide a guiding ethos for revisiting current approaches of access to the sea and ensuring the harmonious coexistence between aquaculture development and local/Indigenous traditional activities.en_US
dc.identifier.citationTsiouvalas A, Evans. From “Common Pools” to “Fish Pools”: Shifting Property Institutions in Traditional Waters of Norway and Canada. Ocean Development and International Law. 2023en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2145570
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00908320.2023.2200218
dc.identifier.issn0090-8320
dc.identifier.issn1521-0642
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/30136
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.relation.journalOcean Development and International Law
dc.relation.projectIDNorges forskningsråd: 302176en_US
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/00908320.2023.2200218
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2023 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)en_US
dc.titleFrom “Common Pools” to “Fish Pools”: Shifting Property Institutions in Traditional Waters of Norway and Canadaen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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