Richard Apostle is a Professor of Sociology at Dalhousie University. He is currently working on a project dealing with socio-economic development in the Faroe Islands.Bonnie McCay is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Ecology at Rutgers University in New Jersey, and their relationships to fisheries management.Knut H. Mikalsen is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Tromso. He is currently engaged in research on issues of stakeholder management in European fisheries.The authors previously collaborated in the writing Community, Market, and the State on the North Atlantic Rim.

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