ABSTRACT
This chapter emphasises the entangled relationships between resource scarcity, the mobility of fishermen and governance of the sea. In the case of Senegalese fishing, the sea is a space of political struggle. According to Deleuze and Guattari, the sea is a smooth space par excellence and provides the necessary fluidity for the deployment of nomads' movements. This form of regional mobility is comparatively new and distinct from the local everyday movement of small-scale fisheries in local Senegalese waters. The different values given to fishers' mobility patterns by fishers themselves and by national governments have changed the geography of the Atlantic, and also changed relations between states and people. The government has also attempted, at the same time, to regulate local-scale fisheries by controlling access to the sea. The ambiguity of Senegalese maritime governance has generated frustration among the fishermen who have subsequently organized themselves through a number of national professional associations.
