| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 222 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Asia-Pacific environment monograph ; 2 |
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Asia-Pacific environment monograph ; 2.
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| Contents |
Contested Rights of Access -- Bajo Settlement History -- The Maritime World of the Bajo -- Bajo Voyages to the Timor Sea -- Australian Maritime Expansion -- Bajo Responses to Australian Policy -- Sailing, Fishing and Trading in 1994 -- An Evaluation of Australian Policy |
| 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."--Publisher's description |
| Analysis |
australia |
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south east asia |
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legislation |
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fishery law |
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asia |
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ethnographic study |
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territorial waters |
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fishing |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Bajau (Southeast Asian people) -- Fishing
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Territorial waters -- Australia
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Fishery law and legislation -- Australia
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Bajau (Southeast Asian people) -- Social life and customs
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Fishing.
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fishing.
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Economics, finance, business and management.
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Ethnic studies.
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Fisheries and related industries.
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Industry and industrial studies.
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Jurisprudence and general issues.
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Law.
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Legal history.
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Primary industries.
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Social groups.
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Society and culture: general.
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- World -- Australian & Oceanian.
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Fishing
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Bajau (Southeast Asian people) -- Social life and customs
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Fishery law and legislation
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Territorial waters
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Australia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781920942953 |
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1920942955 |
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