Boats to burn : Bajo fishing activity in the Australian fishing zone / Natasha Stacey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stacey, Natasha, author.

Series:

Asia-Pacific Environment Monograph ; volume 2.

Asia-Pacific Environment Monograph ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sailing.

Fishing.

Territorial waters--Australia.

Territorial waters.

Fishery law and legislation--Australia.

Fishery law and legislation.

Bajau (Southeast Asian people)--Social life and customs.

Bajau (Southeast Asian people).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 222 pages) : illustrations, tables; digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : ANU E Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Under a Memorandum of Understanding between Indonesia and Australia, traditional Indonesian fishermen are permitted access to fish in a designated area inside the 200 nautical mile Australian Fishing Zone (AFZ). However, crew and vessels are regularly apprehended for illegal fishing activity outside the permitted areas and, after prosecution in Australian courts, their boats and equipment are destroyed and the fishermen repatriated to Indonesia. This is an ethnographic study of one group of Indonesian maritime people who operate in the AFZ. It concerns Bajo people who originate from villages in the Tukang Besi Islands, Southeast Sulawesi. It explores the social, cultural, economic and historic conditions which underpin Bajo sailing and fishing voyages in the AFZ. It also examines issues concerning Australian maritime expansion and Australian government policies, treatment and understanding of Bajo fishing. The study considers the concept of “traditional” fishing regulating access to the MOU area based on use of unchanging technology, and consequences arising from adherence to such a view of “traditional”; the effect of Australian maritime expansion on Bajo fishing activity; the effectiveness of policy in providing for fishing rights and stopping illegal activity, and why Bajo continue to fish in the AFZ despite a range of ongoing restrictions on their activity

Contents:

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

1. Contested rights of access

2. Bajo settlement history

3. The maritime world of the Bajo

4. Bajo voyages to the Timor Sea

5. Australian maritime expansion

6. Bajo responses to Australian policy

7. Sailing, fishing and trading in 1994

8. An evaluation of Australian policy

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 1, 2017).

ISBN:

9781920942946

1920942947

OCLC:

1163818643

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_458834