Provocative discussion/ study regarding fishing in North MISS.
Link to study:
Proceedings of the second international symposium on the management of large rivers for fisheries: Volume II
Pay particular close attention to the paragraph on Human Dimensions. I attached it below.
it discusses the culture tied to fishing in the area.
HUMAN DIMENSIONS
The UYRB is an area with a wealth of natural resources, either privately owned or publicly managed, that local residents access extensively and intensively in some cases. Throughout the region, communities are strongly linked to natural cycles of the resource base. It is, however, a region of paradox in that it is rich in fertile land and natural resources but economic and social inequalities remain entrenched (Gray 1991; Marcum, Holley and Williams 1988). There is a prevailing resistance to social and economic change and persistence of a strong regional identity (Brown et al. 1996). Cowdrey (1983) noted that this regional identity was strongly linked to natural resources. Consequently, outdoor recreation (e.g. fishing) provides an outlet for maintenance of local social networks and development (Cowdrey 1983) and it offers participants a sense of control over their lives and circumstances (sensu Marks 1991).
Participation in these activities instils a sense of dignity in a socio-economic-political environment that often denies this dignity to the participants and promotes characteristics of political and economic independence (Brown et al. 1996). By providing content and meaning to their lives, interactions with the region’s natural resources unites participants in a subculture of hunting and fishing through which they have a shared history, ideology, symbolic universe and system of meaning. The subculture that has developed around river fisheries in the UYRB is identifiable through values, ways of life, beliefs, etc. and is passed from member to member and generation to generation (Brown et al. 1996). It also contains explicit knowledge and practices that are not common to people outside of the group (sensu Waxman 1983; Hollingshead 1939).
Because the natural resources of the UYRB (e.g. the rivers) are not mobile and are in part unique to the area itself, the economies and subcultures that have developed around the utilization of the rivers’ resources also are not mobile; they will be just as much tied to the place as are the physical conditions of the area with which they interact (Brown et al. 1996). Subsequently, if the rivers and their associated fishery resources are negatively impacted through anthropogenic activities (e.g. channelization, siltation, disconnection of floodplains; non-point source pollution), the non-mobile subculture of river fisheries also is negatively impacted. If the identity that defines the people of the subculture is threatened or destroyed, they are left with few if any alternatives. Such social degradation strikes at the very heart of a region that is rapidly losing population, relevancy and voice in the postmodern world. It is, in this sense, one of the more natural resources - dependent regions of the United States and much of this connection rests within the realm of proper, natural, functioning of the region’s floodplain river ecosystems.
For some reason I see a publisher in New York with his pinky extended as he takes a sip of TEA writing this. Doh
Reminds me of Uncle Versies experience with that City Slicker with the Owl head pistol!
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