ABSTRACT
This chapter delves more deeply into the ecological facets of colonization in Australia, New Zealand and the United States, particularly as it relates to the systematic appropriation of Indigenous fisheries. While general strategies of domination were analogous across the three contexts, there were also fundamental differences in the specific processes through which Indigenous fisheries were appropriated in each case. These differences were consequential in shaping the contemporary regulatory regimes that govern Indigenous affairs, generally, and fisheries resources, more specifically. The contemporary manifestation of these processes and institutional controls comprise the structure of political opportunities and obstacles facing Indigenous political actors who are seeking to reassert authority over their traditional fisheries. Crucially, I contend that these political opportunities shape the strategies of action utilized by Indigenous activists, the content of Indigenous claims-making and the potential for achieving meaningful change across each of the three cases.
