“…While the domestic and small‐scale businesses that emerged in the late 1970s and 1980s clearly made money for boat owners and were, in this respect, similar to other small businesses where fixed capital presumes a right to surplus, they were distinct insofar as the right to surplus was (culturally and legally) shared by crewmembers and, indeed, surplus was distributed to crewmembers and, by extension, fishing communities via a share rather than a wage system of compensation. In addition to this unique class process of surplus production, appropriation, and distribution, a variety of cultural understandings and social practices served to differentiate fishing from standard models of capitalist enterprise (cf Kayatekin 1997, 2001). While fisheries did continue to expand, modernize, and increase capacity tremendously (which would eventually create new problems for the alternative economy), there remained a common property system where labor was compensated via shares rather than wages and capital was locally embedded within fishing communities.…”