New Zealand: The Political Economy Of Fishing Rights And Claims - The Maori Experience In New Zealand


New Zealand: The Political Economy Of Fishing Rights And Claims - The Maori Experience In New Zealand   Michael De Alessi, 2012   The capitalist penetration of fisheries in New Zealand began in the nineteenth century and has carried on into the twenty-first. Early on, Maori were denied access to fisheries by a lack of access to capital; a de facto restriction that became a de jure restriction with the creation of fishing quotas in the 1990s. This legal change allowed Maori to use...

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