ABSTRACT
Small-scale fisheries have been paid little atten-
tion in policy and management theory. Up to the
beginning of 2000, none of the mainstream
journals had editorial focus around small-scale
management (Berkes et al., 2001, Chap. 4, p. 10).
Academic Journals usually have their origin in
high-income countries in the north, and are
therefore dominated by agendas set by these
countries (Sachs [1999] in Berkes et al., 2001).
Both Symes [1996] and Phillipson [2001] in Pı´riz
(2004, p. 40), in referring to the European
context, support the view that research on
small-scale coastal fisheries has been especially
neglected.
