Territorial Use Rights in Fishing (TURFS) on Lake Titicaca, PeruTerritorial Use Rights in Fishing (TURFS) on Lake Titicaca, Peru
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Book, 1987
Current format, Book, 1987, , No Longer Available.
Book, 1987
Current format, Book, 1987, , No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formats
Examination of the existence of territorial use rights in fishing (TURFs) along the Peruvian shores of Lake Titicaca, relying upon a variety of sources which consider both the history and ethnography of Lake Titicaca shore dwellers. The report gives a definition of TURFs and the main characteristics of Lake Titicaca fisheries; reviews the historical evolution of those fisheries and emphasizes the restriction of fishing activities to a particular socio-economic group; analyzes the organization of fishing during Inca times and the early colonial period to demonstrate that this exclusiveness was based on formally granted TURFs; and demonstrates through an analysis of reported conflicts over fishing grounds that the persistence of TURFs is a widespread rather than a localized phenomenon.
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