For indigenous communities, fish mean much more than food
- Written by Yoshitaka Ota, Director (Policy), Nippon Foundation-UBC Nereus Program and Senior Research Associate, University of British Columbia
Along the arid coastline of northwestern Mexico, indigenous Seri communities, who first resisted Spanish rule and then Mexican extermination efforts, eventually gained formal titles over a small part of their ancestral coastal and marine territories. The ocean has always sustained their livelihood, but now they must contend with outside competition...
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