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Small-scale fisheries (SSF) have a long history on Gotland, the largest island in Sweden and the Baltic Sea. Today they are struggling to survive due to competition from industrial fisheries, other animals, and the reputation of Baltic fish containing high levels of toxins. With topics like authenticity and sustainability becoming increasingly important in the tourism sector, integrating SSF in the destination image and utilising locally caught fish in restaurants shows great potential for Gotland to become a more sustainable destination, offering more authentic experiences to tourists. This study aims to explore the inclusion of SSF and related aspects in Gotland’s destination image through an analysis of websites and Instagram accounts, and how much SSF are included in local restaurants through interviews with restaurant owners. The study highlights the missed opportunities for tourism on Gotland to incorporate SSF and related aspects. In the analysis, it was shown that SSF merely occupied a background role in the destination image. Just as SSF occupy a minor role in Gotland’s destination image, its role in the local gastronomy scene is limited. The restaurant owners highlighted an acute need for education and collaboration to facilitate the potential use of local fish from SSF. If SSF and related aspects were incorporated into Gotland’s tourism, the natural beauty and historical culture could be complemented by living heritage. This could enable tourists to experience more authentic activities or to consume seafood more sustainably, and therefore enhance their experience altogether with the addition of potentially distinguishing Gotland as a destination. Simultaneously, local fishers are uplifted while the health of the delicate ecosystems of the Baltic Sea is supported and improved upon for generations to come.

Small-scale fisheries (SSF) have a long history on Gotland, the largest island in Sweden and the Baltic Sea. Today they are struggling to survive due to competition from industrial fisheries, other animals, and the reputation of Baltic fish containing high levels of toxins. With topics like authenticity and sustainability becoming increasingly important in the tourism sector, integrating SSF in the destination image and utilising locally caught fish in restaurants shows great potential for Gotland to become a more sustainable destination, offering more authentic experiences to tourists. This study aims to explore the inclusion of SSF and related aspects in Gotland’s destination image through an analysis of websites and Instagram accounts, and how much SSF are included in local restaurants through interviews with restaurant owners. The study highlights the missed opportunities for tourism on Gotland to incorporate SSF and related aspects. In the analysis, it was shown that SSF merely occupied a background role in the destination image. Just as SSF occupy a minor role in Gotland’s destination image, its role in the local gastronomy scene is limited. The restaurant owners highlighted an acute need for education and collaboration to facilitate the potential use of local fish from SSF. If SSF and related aspects were incorporated into Gotland’s tourism, the natural beauty and historical culture could be complemented by living heritage. This could enable tourists to experience more authentic activities or to consume seafood more sustainably, and therefore enhance their experience altogether with the addition of potentially distinguishing Gotland as a destination. Simultaneously, local fishers are uplifted while the health of the delicate ecosystems of the Baltic Sea is supported and improved upon for generations to come.

This article narrates how a fisherfolk community comprising original inhabitants of Mumbai has been spatially squeezed and choked by surrounding urban developments, compelling them to turn away from their customary livelihoods and ways of living. The community resists this through a political project of indigenous reclaiming. The project is material in nature—focused on reclaiming alienated lands—but also imaginative—reasserting a newly imagined, albeit contested, identity as a fishing community founded on repurposing its fishing commons and reconfiguring the dominant notion of property as private. Using the lens of boundaries allows us to understand the closures and opportunities presented by these complex urban transformations. Overall, the fishers’ reclamation is directed at redefining, contesting, blurring and ‘commoning’ the established ordering boundary of private property that erases their customary claims—their remembered boundary spans not just the village settlement but also the land–sea commons—and is seen as unjust.

The economy of Marzamemi, a small fishing village in the territory of Pachino, has always been linked to the sea. In the past the main activities were those connected with the tonnara, with the salting of fish and with the maritime commerce of the agricultural products. Later, the village became an important beach resort on a local scale. In the second half of the 1980s, the redevelopment of the waterfront, in the south of Marzamemi, stimulated a mainly local demand from young people attracted by some newly opened outlets connected, above all, with drink and food services. Then, in 1993 the cinema industry arrived in Marzamemi. Since then the old architectural heritage of the historic centre has been restored and used for tourism. Over the last few years, from the last ten days of July until the end of August, the tiny streets and the piazzas of the village have appeared overcrowded with tourists. A dynamism that the official statistical surveys are not able to describe.

This document profiles 136 fishing communities in Alaska with basic information on social and economic characteristics. Various federal statutes, including the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act and the National Environmental Policy Act, among others, require agencies to examine the social and economic impacts of policies and regulations. These profiles can serve as a consolidated source of baseline information for assessing community impacts in Alaska. The profiles are given in a narrative format that includes three sections: People and Place, Infrastructure, and Involvement in North Pacific Fisheries. People and Place includes information on location, demographics (including age and gender structure of the population, racial and ethnic make up), education, housing, and local history. Community Infrastructure covers current economic activity, governance (including city classification, taxation, Native organizations, and proximity to fisheries management and immigration offices) and facilities (transportation options and connectivity, water, waste, electricity, schools, police, and public accommodations). Involvement in North Pacific Fisheries details community activities in commercial fishing (processing, permit holdings, and aid receipts), recreational fishing, and subsistence fishing. To define communities, we relied on Census place-level geographies where possible, grouping communities only when constrained by fisheries data, yielding 128 individual profiles. Regional characteristics and issues are briefly described in regional introductions.

Lee Yee Chak Raymond., "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 1996-97, design report.", Includes bibliographical references., Chapter 1. --- Introduction, Chapter 1.1 --- Design Objectives, Chapter 1.2 --- Problem Defined, Chapter 1.3 --- Description of Client & Users, Chapter 1.4 --- Mission and Goals, Chapter 2. --- Project Analysis, Chapter 2.1 --- Site / Context Analysis, Chapter 2.1.1 --- Location, Chapter 2.1.2 --- Climate, Chapter 2.1.3 --- Special Studies: Natural Ventilation, Chapter 2.1.4 --- History -- Sequence of the Settlement, Chapter 2.1.5 --- Development of Tai O, Chapter 2.1.6 --- Site Analysis Diagram, Chapter 2.2 --- Client / Users Analysis, Chapter 2.2.1 --- Functional Relationship, Chapter 2.2.2 --- Activities, Chapter 2.2.3 --- Social Pattern, Chapter 2.2.4 --- Organizational Hierarchies in Stilt Homes, Chapter 2.2.5 --- Schedule of Accommodation, Chapter 2.3 --- Subject Analysis, Chapter 2.3.1 --- Architectural Language, Chapter 2.3.2 --- Precedents, Chapter 3. --- Process, Chapter 3.1 --- Organization & Zoning Period, Chapter 3.2 --- Conceptual Stage, Chapter 3.3 --- Schematic Design, Chapter 3.4 --- Design Development, Chapter 3.5 --- Design Deveopment I, Chapter 3.6 --- Design Development II, Chapter 4. --- Final Project, Chapter 4.1 --- Settlement Design in 4 Level, Chapter 4.2 --- Site Planning, Chapter 4.3 --- Methodology: Diagram of Dwelling Units Formation, Chapter 4.3.1 --- Resident's Requirement, Chapter 4.3.2 --- One Man in Tai O, Chapter 4.4 --- Cluster Level, Chapter 4.4.1 --- Cluster, Chapter 4.4.2 --- Activites in the Cluster, Chapter 4.4.3 --- Cluster Level, Chapter 4.5 --- Open Space Level, Chapter 4.6 --- Details & Construction, Chapter 4.7 --- Special Studies: Material, Appendix, Programming report, Schedule of Work, Bibliography, http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5889062, Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)