Slaves to Sailors: the archaeology of traditional Caribbean shore whaling<i>c</i>.1850-2000. A case study from Barbados and Bequia (St Vincent Grenadines)

Finneran, Niall

doi:10.1111/1095-9270.12184

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“…Other notable scholarly sources of description come from Adams (1971Adams ( , 1994, Balcomb (1981); Delves (1981), Ward (1987Ward ( , 1995, Beck (1987), and Hamaguchi (2001. Additional insights are furnished by Finneran's archeological study Finneran's (2016). Popular descriptive accounts include Junger (2001), Weston (2014), andPalmer (2017).…”

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Artisanal and Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Eastern Caribbean): History, Catch Characteristics, and Needs for Research and Management

Fielding

Kiszka

2021

Front. Mar. Sci.

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Whaling has been a contentious international environmental issue for decades and carries complex ecological and socioeconomic implications. In Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), a small archipelagic nation located in the Eastern Caribbean, present-day whaling traces its origin to local interaction with American-based whalers during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. When American whaling in the region ceased, local shore-based whaling arose to fill the niche and to exploit the remaining, though diminished, stocks of large whales, as well as stocks of small cetaceans that the American whalers had not targeted as heavily. After a period of expansion throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which saw shore-whaling operations established on at least 11 islands in the region, Eastern Caribbean whaling experienced a period of attrition, during which most local whaling operations ceased. Two operations, both based in SVG, continue regularly today. This paper reviews the past and present status of whaling activities in SVG from the literature and using recent data collected from 2007 to 2017 through logbook data, interview surveys, and ethnographic observations. Small cetacean captures have been documented since 1949, and at least 15 species of odontocetes have been captured (primarily delphinids). From 1949 to 2017, a total of 13,856 small cetacean captures has been recorded, including 5,896 short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus), 109 killer whales (Orcinus orca), and 7,851 other small cetaceans. Small cetacean catch records are largely incomplete and total catch estimates could not be attempted. Reliable abundance estimates do not exist. Consistent records for the take of large whales are only available for the period 1986–2020, during which 45 humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) and 2 Bryde’s whales (Balaenoptera edeni) were taken. Additionally, 8 sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) captures were reported from 1967 and 1974. We also review whaling practices, existing national policy on whaling, management techniques outside of formal policy regimes, research needs, and future management perspectives. Future monitoring and management of whaling activities in SVG are strongly needed to assess the sustainability of small cetacean exploitation.

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Artisanal and Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Eastern Caribbean): History, Catch Characteristics, and Needs for Research and Management

Fielding

Kiszka

2021

Front. Mar. Sci.

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“…For instance, tourism is a major economic sector across the Lesser Antilles islands (Piraszewska, 2006) and the effects of underwater noise and climate change (Jury & Bernard, 2020) are most likely to be felt throughout the Eastern Caribbean. However, more localized threats such as whaling (Finneran, 2016), entanglement (Gero & Whitehead, 2016), and the presence of fast vessels (such as the high‐speed ferries connecting Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, and St. Lucia) might vary from one island to the next. Long term monitoring of the sperm whales inhabiting islands beyond Dominica and Guadeloupe is therefore necessary to obtain trends on the Eastern Caribbean sperm whale population.…”

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Abundance estimate of Eastern Caribbean sperm whales using large scale regional surveys

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Rendell,

Gero

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Marine Mammal Science

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European colonisation, law, and Indigenous marine dispossession: historical perspectives on the construction and entrenchment of unequal marine governance

Wilson

2021

Maritime Studies

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European colonisation played a fundamental role in Indigenous marine dispossession and the entrenchment of unequal and state-dominated marine governance regimes across diverse bodies of water. This article charts this process, utilising examples from waters and communities across the globe that experienced disparate forms of European colonisation and marine dispossession. These examples span between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries and traverse waters from the Caribbean to Oceania. This long historical context is necessary to interrogating how colonisation has produced unequal access to marine space, resources, and decision-making in different ways through different methods across time and space, which continues to this day. One of the article’s main contentions is that marine dispossession played out vastly differently across each locale and that it is only with deep and highly localised historical study that the heterogenous impacts and ongoing legacies of colonisation on the marine rights, governance, and access of specific Indigenous Peoples and local communities can begin to be grappled with. While the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities to marine spaces and resources have received some affirmation within recent international legal instruments, including the protection of customary marine tenure and access to aquatic resources, there continues to be key constraints surrounding the definitions, representations, and jurisdictions of Indigenous or ‘customary’ marine rights as they have been codified or ‘recognised’ within national and interstate frameworks. This has led to fundamental challenges that need to be navigated time and time again in order to attain, claim, or protect Indigenous and ‘customary’ marine jurisdictions. As this article outlines, the emergence of these issues is intrinsically tied to the colonisation of terrestrial and marine spaces. To understand these ongoing struggles, we need to pay close attention to the deep entanglements of law, colonialism, and marine rights in the past and present.

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Slaves to Sailors: the archaeology of traditional Caribbean shore whalingc.1850-2000. A case study from Barbados and Bequia (St Vincent Grenadines)

Cited by 4 publications

References 49 publications

Artisanal and Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Eastern Caribbean): History, Catch Characteristics, and Needs for Research and Management

Artisanal and Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Eastern Caribbean): History, Catch Characteristics, and Needs for Research and Management

Abundance estimate of Eastern Caribbean sperm whales using large scale regional surveys

European colonisation, law, and Indigenous marine dispossession: historical perspectives on the construction and entrenchment of unequal marine governance

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