Don't Fence Me In: Boundaries, Policy, and Deliberation in Maine's Lobster Commons

TitleDon't Fence Me In: Boundaries, Policy, and Deliberation in Maine's Lobster Commons
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2012
AuthorsBrewer J
JournalAnnals of the Association of American Geographers
Volume102
Pagination383-402
Source DocumentAccessible with appropriate permission
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Mount Desert Island Lobster Fishery

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The lobster grounds of Mount Desert Island are located within Hancock County, Maine, some 250 miles northeast of Boston and 150 miles southwest of the U.S. - Canada border. The original case spans from 1969 to1974 and catalogues an action situation involving approximately 75 lobster fishermen; lobster is the stationary resource unit.This case study is part of the original Common-Pool Resource (CPR) database. A summary of the original CPR coding conducted in the 1980s by Edella Schlager and Shui...
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