Bankrupt Government Policies and Belligerent Fishermen Responses: Dependency and Conflict in the Southwest Nova Scotia Small Boat Fisheries

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Despite massive federal/provincial government financial and policy interventions in the Atlantic Canadian Fisheries, relations between small boat fishermen and various levels of the state are rife with a pervasive alienation, distrust and conflict. This essay examines attributes and consequences of state intervention in the fisheries. Small boat fishermen’s increasing dependence on state-controlled resources and the non-consultative bureaucratic style of government are considered to be primary factors intensifying alienation, distrust and conflict. Two cases of conflict in Southwest Nova Scotia are described and discussed in order to illustrate the attributes and processes associated with this condition.

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