“Real” Poachers and Predators: Shades of Meaning in Local Understandings of Threats to Fisheries

摘要: This article explores the idea of multiple and contested notions nature, natural resource management, implications for local involvement with conservation, within context attitudes toward poachers other predators fish in Nemunas Delta area Lithuania. Qualitative research methods are used to elicit understandings threats fishing livelihoods unravel ambiguities surrounding people's perceptions of, toward, competitors fish: human (poachers) nonhuman (predators fish, primarily birds). Neither nor classified as a simple category, unequivocally “bad ” or threatening. Rather, poaching predation represented by multidimensional spectrum acceptability based not only on perceived threat stocks but also sense aesthetics, fairness, identity. We conclude examining this work both Lithuania elsewhere.