Abstract
Starting with the nature of the serious, world-wide fishery crisis, this article shows that the recent vulnerability of marine ecosystems and resources, resulting from an obsolete paradigm of rationality and the control of nature (the seas), cannot be overcome by privatization of access to the resources through ITQs. Conversely, the ecosystems approach, open to a reevaluation of the historic contribution of the community-based types of management invented by coastal fishing cultures, particularly at risk within the EU, may contribute to the development of more responsible, more democratic governance, at least within those cultures.
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