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- Title
Tacking between Scylla and Charybdis: The Adaptive Dynamics of Texelian Fishermen.
- Authors
van Ginkel, Rob
- Abstract
The article presents a study on adaptation of fishermen to ecological, social and economic change in Texel, Netherlands. The anthropological literature is extremely scanty in Dutch fishing communities though the number of ethnographies in developing steadily in northwestern European maritime communities. Following to the decrease of oyster fishing, many fishermen changed to exploiting eelgrass during summer and fall. In the mid-1840s, the nearby island municipality of Wieringem acquired exclusive use rights to a big proportion of the eelgrass beds in the Wadden Sea.
- Subjects
TEXEL (Netherlands); WADDENZEE (Netherlands); NETHERLANDS; FISHING villages; FISHERIES; MARITIME anthropology; FISHERS; ZOSTERA; OYSTER fisheries
- Publication
International Journal of Maritime History, 1994, Vol 6, Issue 1, p215
- ISSN
0843-8714
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/084387149400600112