The Political Economy of Fishing Rights and Claims: The Maori Experience in New Zealand

Journal of Agrarian Change

Volumn 12, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 390-412

  De Alessi, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Fishing rights; Historic modes of access; Maori fisheries; Marine tenure; New Zealand Quota Management System (QMS); Tribal capitalism

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; FISHERY; FISHING; NINETEENTH CENTURY; POLITICAL ECONOMY; QUOTA SYSTEM; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84857927664     PISSN: 14710358     EISSN: 14710366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0366.2011.00346.x     Document Type: Article

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