{"product_id":"gulf-coast-soundings-people-and-policy-in-the-mississippi-shrimp-industry-9780700607600","title":"Gulf Coast Soundings: People and Policy in the Mississippi Shrimp Industry","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): E. Paul Durrenberger\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University Press of Kansas\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Kansas\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ecosystems \u0026amp; Habitats - Lakes, Ponds \u0026amp; Swamps\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFisheries issues have been attracting increasing media attention in the wake of contamination scares, controversies over new government regulations, and environmental concerns about coastal zone management--especially the loss of wetlands, coastal erosion, pollution, and overfishing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eScrutinizing the people, policies, institutions, and issues tied to the shrimping industry in Mississippi, Paul Durrenberger provides this first examination ever of the complexities of an American fishing industry in a single geographical area. He presents an analysis of one elaborate system--from the toils and turmoils of the people who catch the shrimp to the quandaries facing the policymakers who try to regulate them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe shrimping industry, he contends, occurs on a series of interrelated levels and dimensions and is influenced by the ideas and actions of shrimpers, processors, fisheries managers, bureaucrats, creditors, environmentalists, and scientists. It is also one segment of a wider social, political, economic, and environmental totality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt a local level Durrenberger investigates the impact of competition from Vietnamese refugees, rivalry between bay and gulf fishermen, an escalating overpopulation of shrimpers in general, and wide-spread resistance to costly, federally mandated devices designed to save sea turtles. Exploring how the industry is increasingly bound to the global economy, he illuminates the threat to the livelihoods of independent shrimpers from ever increasing imports. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDurrenberger assesses the adequacy of folk models of shrimpers and policymakers alike. Decisions about the industry's future, he argues, must be based on valid data and realistic expectations. Too often policies are derived from untested folk models--concepts formulated by participants to justify or rationalize rather than explain what they do. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on detailed interviews, \u003ci\u003eGulf Coast Soundings\u003c\/i\u003e will be a valuable resource for anthropologists, policymakers, public administrators, resource managers, sociologists, biologists, and anyone involved or interested in the economic and environmental future of the Gulf Coast, or more generally, in fisheries and coastal areas.","brand":"University Press of Kansas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47591560937623,"sku":"9780700607600","price":2879.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780700607600.webp?v=1774973641","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/gulf-coast-soundings-people-and-policy-in-the-mississippi-shrimp-industry-9780700607600","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}