ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how a marginal arena, the Somaliland fishery sector, came to be of great importance on the global development agenda, by the linkages and de-linkages among the actors within the contested political sea that surrounds fishery development in the region. Somali piracy and its attained discursive position as a global threat has, with its assumed linkage to fishermen and coastal communities, successfully channelled global interests and resources to the Somaliland fishery sector. Amanda Moller Rasmussen noticed how the linkage between piracy and fisheries was continuously stressed in the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) communication. For the NGO FairFishing, the volunteers had started to tour around Denmark, lecturing on how to make pirates into fishermen. The NGO had received its largest donation from the European Union, to duplicate its project in Somalia. The Somali Waters became synonymous with piracy, and the ideas of fragility, violence, and chaos were associated with Somalia by the global media and international actors.
