When Fish is Water: Food Security and Fish in a Coastal Community in The Dominican Republic

摘要: The purpose of this report is to help fisheries officials better understand the cultures small - scale fishing communities. By doing so they will be prepared develop more successful management policies and practices, people in such communities have decent lives. paper discusses cultural characteristics small-scale that are particularly important for understand. Methods which might managers obtain trustworthy reliable information about an ethical manner also suggested, including methods rapidly acquiring while working within tight budgetary time constraints. Recommendations appearing near end provide guidance concerning how foregoing objectives can achieved, underscoring importance sustaining –scale fishers' rights access resources making their integral considerations fisheries- practices. Buen Hombre one six case studies contemporary -scale from distinct world -culture regions annexed at end, richly exemplifying many issues discussed report The essay written by Richard Stoffle Hombre, a coastal farming village thousand located on north coast Dominican Republic Haitian border. It found pages 219 – 245. The deal with normal abnormal problems change. These changes sometimes global local. Changes occur climate, economy, environment. prepare accommodate these (1) promoting conservation ethic (2) limiting marine resources. When successful, fish -based food security ameliorated. This as were faced 1985 1995. While very segment time, did illustrate key temporal spatial processes. Short-term economy climate common peoples who must constantly adjust adaptive strategies survive. The full reference entire is: McGoodwin, James, R. (2001). Understanding Cultures Fishing Communities: A Key Fisheries Management Food Security. Rome, Italy: Agricultural Organization United Nations; FAO Technical Paper 401.