| Abstract: | In contemporary Aotearoa/New Zealand, Maori indigenous claims to fisheries have resulted in an uneasy compromise in which private property in fisheries coexists with an important element of common ownership. Individual Transferable Quotas and the bundle of rights encoded in Customary Fisheries Regulations are the expression of this compromise. At the legal level, these reflect the major property paradigms of private and communal. In practice, neither has accommodated Maori concrete relations of owning, and social practices of exchanging, fish. |
