Small-scale artisanal fisheries and its networks: the case of Arte Xávega in Portugal

• Autor(a) principal: Alves, Fátima
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Casaleiro, Paula, Valentim, Cristina Sá, Castro, Paula, Pardal, Miguel
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/10586
• topic: Arte Xávega; Small-scale fishery; Artisanal fishing regulation; Common fisheries policy; Actors-network theory; Governance; ODS::10:Reduzir as Desigualdades; ODS::14:Proteger a Vida Marinha; ODS::16:Paz, Justiça e Instituições Eficazes

This paper examines the management process of the Arte Xávega related to the implementation of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and the Portuguese artisanal fishing regulation. This study looks at a formal normativity and seeks to discern how it is achieved. The methodology is based on the analysis of European and national legal documents collected until 2017 and mobilises a reticular approach, which directs our gaze at the complex interactions guided by contingency and heterogeneity. It is argued that the local governance of the Arte Xávega is a highly wide-ranging and diverse process and simultaneously a local and global one through which diverse types of appropriations and translations occur. Throughout this interconnected process between different actors and scales as they seek to implement policies, the different actors’ interests are re-represented and re-ordered in the national legislation and norms. Considering this perspective, governance of artisanal fishing is highly contested and unpredictable, shaped by tensions, negotiations, and entangled networks crossing national and transnational scales and perceptions.