Fishing for Local Power — Episode 25 of the Building Local Power Podcast

Written by Nick Stumo-Langer

This week’s episode of Building Local Power is a great conversation with a close ally and friend of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Niaz Dorry, coordinating director of the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance, sits down with hosts Christopher Mitchell and Stacy Mitchell to talk about the growing privatization of the fishing industry, how she organizes her fishing community, and the damage that large-scale fishing does to the environment and her local economy.

Full transcript is available here.

This conversation offers a great on-the-ground perspective on what privatization looks like and how it harms local groups and small-scale operations.

“The players that want to privatize the ocean, and consolidate the fishing industry, sometimes are the same players we’re fighting in other parts of our social justice movements, but for some reason, we’ve not transferred that knowledge and the strategies we’ve used in other movements, to the ocean work.” says Niaz Dorry of her work in organizing around these issues. “We just decided that doing very basic things, like eating fish that’s on the green list, or buying certified seafood, we’ve done our part. That’s not enough. Those were good steps forward. We know too much about what’s happened in the rest of our society, and we know too much about what’s happened in the fishing industry, to stop there.”

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Here are some reading recommendations from our guest, Niaz Dorry:

From Mother Jones’ March/April 2017 Issue: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/03/codfather-carlos-rafael-fish-fraud-catchshares/.

Purchase NAMA’s book “Sharing the Ocean” from their website: http://www.namanet.org/sharing-ocean.

Purchase Malcolm Gladwell’s “David and Goliath” from his website, here: http://gladwell.com/david-and-goliath/.

Get caught up with the latest work from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance on fighting monopoly power and privatization and other economic sectors:

The Perils of Privatization — Episode 9 of the Building Local Power Podcast

When It Comes to Public Services, Government Knows Best

The Public Good Newsfeed — December 1, 2016: The Perils of Privatization

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