Thursday, April 10, 2014
For my final project I decided to compare US fishing practices with Japan's fishing practices. After watching an intense video of dolphin trapping, it certainly got my attention. I would like to start with any official restrictions and then dissect the different aspects of the industry, including the responses from the communities about the industry and the restrictions. There are certainly different degrees to which people utilize the Game and Fish Department on a yearly basis in the US. For the purpose of this research, I would like to focus on communities that are dependent on this industry, such as coastal towns. I grew up going fishing with my family and have fond memories of catching them, though I never did like eating them!
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I like where this is going, Jessica. However, a few suggestions: be sure to draw in some themes from the course. Analyzing how policies affect livelihoods (e.g., if communities are dependent on the restrictions hurt them) is clearly relevant to political ecology, but you could also talk about constructions of nature (or of oceans, or of dolphins) and environmental ethics.
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