Pacific Islands Fishery Monograph - Western Pacific Indigenous Fishing Communities

Abstract

More often than not, economically deprived countries and indigenous communities are the owners and stewards of the world's natural resources. For the poorest of poor, direct access to nature is their lifeline. But globalization has centralized wealth and reduced the poor's access to economic opportunity. For native communities, the return of economic benefits has been slow as has acknowledgement of the vast traditional knowledge that they hold on managing and utilizing their unique island resources.