SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN FISHERIES - ILLUSIONS OR EMERGING REALITY

With the collapse of several important fish stocks in recent decades, fisheries have witnessed the limits to productionist strategies of exp loitation and stand in need of a more sustainable basis for their futu re development. Using theoretical constructs from Gramsci and Bourdieu , the paper examines Norwegian fisheries for evidence of sustainable d evelopment. It concludes that while the Barents cod crisis provoked a more realistic emergency strategy, the necessary political alliances a nd consensus approach to sustainable development have not yet been est ablished.