ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the process by which the institutionalisation of coastal resource management examined and has been contextualised into a particular circumstance of local communities. As the most conspicuous feature of the changing pattern of resource use in Panacan, the phasing out of trawl fishing and the consequent absorption of former trawl owners into various alternative opportunities should be examined. In the beginning, the core of an alternative fishing complex, kulong and likom fishing, worked as a pivot by providing an ample supply of fresh fish for the dried fish processors and also of bait for pangawil, or hook and line fishing. It examines the process of contextualisation in which the institution of resource management is adapted and embedded in the specific context of the local community. The ethnography of the chapter described the conduct of various actors induced by institution of resource management which is deeply restructured by neoliberalism, which interact, and articulate, with localized mutuality of emerging community.
