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Traditional Owners and the Management of Recreational Fishing in Kakadu National Park Lisa Palmer View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Scholarship@Western Western University Scholarship@Western Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi) 3-2004 Fishing Lifestyles: ‘Territorians’, Traditional Owners and the Management of Recreational Fishing in Kakadu National Park Lisa Palmer Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/aprci Part of the Environmental Policy Commons Citation of this paper: Palmer, Lisa, "Fishing Lifestyles: ‘Territorians’, Traditional Owners and the Management of Recreational Fishing in Kakadu National Park" (2004). Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi). 209. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/aprci/209 60 Fishing Lifestyles: ‘Territorians’, Traditional Owners and the Management of Recreational Fishing in Kakadu National Park LISA PALMER, University of Melbourne, Australia Abstract The relationships between traditional Aboriginal land owners and other Park users in Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory are characterised by competing agendas and competing ideas about appropriate ways of relating to the environment. Similarly, the management of recreational fishing in the Park is permeated by the tensions and opposition of contested ideas and perspectives from non-Aboriginal fishers and Aboriginal traditional owners. The local know- ledge and rights of ‘Territorians’ [non-Aboriginal Northern Territory residents] are continually pitted against the local knowledge and rights of Aboriginal tra- ditional owners. Under these circumstances, debates between non-Aboriginal fishers and Aboriginal traditional owners are overwhelmingly dominated by the unequal power relationships created through an alliance between science and the State. The complex and multi-dimensional nature of Aboriginal traditional own- ers’ concerns for country renders these concerns invisible or incomprehensible to government, science and non-Aboriginal fishers who are each guided by very different epistemic commitments. It is a state of affairs that leaves the situated knowledge of Aboriginal traditional owners with a limited authority in the non- Aboriginal domain and detracts from their ability to manage and care for their homelands. KEY WORDS Recreational fishing; Aborigines; national parks; joint manage- ment; nature; natural resource management ACRONYMS AFANT Amateur Fishermen’s Association of the Northern Territory ALRA Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (Cth) ANCA Australian Nature Conservation Agency ANPWS Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service KNPBoM Kakadu National Park Board of Management Australian Geographical Studies • March 2004 • 42(1):60–76 Fishing Lifestyles 61 Introduction mean man, male, person or Aboriginal people Fishing is an activity enjoyed in Kakadu depending on context) in Kakadu National Park. National Park by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal It is shown that, while the agenda of the ‘Territ- residents and Park visitors alike. Of this latter ory Lifestyle’ is supported by the discourse of group, it is a particularly popular activity with science and ‘best practice’ fisheries manage- Northern Territory Park users from Darwin ment, fishing is also an activity integral to the and Katherine where fishing is asserted to be Bininj lifestyle in Kakadu National Park. In this integral to the ‘Territory Lifestyle’. In 1999, in way fishing in Kakadu is an issue about which an advertisement in the Sunday Territorian, the the local knowledge and rights of ‘Territorians’ Northern Territory Government identified six are continually pitted against the local know- key areas ‘that will underpin its policies, plans ledge and rights of Bininj. Considerable contro- and actions into the 21st Century’ (31 October versy was created over this issue when the 1996 1999, 42). The first key area to be listed was Kakadu National Park Draft Plan of Manage- to ‘Preserve and Build on the Lifestyle of all ment (KNPBoM and ANCA, 1996) proposed Territorians’ and featured a colour photograph of additional restrictions on access for recreational two such ‘Territorians’ proudly holding up their fishing in the Park. In the debate that ensued, barramundi catches in a remote river location. A the issue became one of contested knowledges major goal identified in this key policy area was between non-Aboriginal fishers and conserva- to ensure ‘our natural environment is largely tion science on the one hand, and, on the other, undisturbed and readily accessible to the public’ Bininj knowledge and management of the re- (Northern Territory Government, 1999, 42). No source base. It was a debate that revolved around reference was made to the fact that more than who has the right to make decisions on resource 50% of ‘our natural environment’ and over 80% and land use. In 1997, the conflict between of the Northern Territory coastline is held under these two ‘local’ knowledges and agendas was inalienable Aboriginal freehold title under the the source of a heated public campaign waged terms of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern by the recreational fishing lobby in the Northern Territory) Act 1976 (Cth) (‘ALRA’). In 1998, the Territory. These fishers argued that proposed Northern Territory Government placed a similar changes by the Kakadu Board of Management advertisement in the Sunday Territorian (North- to fishing access in Kakadu National Park ern Territory Government, 1998, 12) promoting were unacceptable without scientific proof, the need for Northern Territory Statehood to such as a proven decrease in barramundi stocks, protect the ‘Territory Lifestyle’. This advertise- to validate the decisions being made. These ment was critical of Parks Australia, a Canberra objections received considerable support from bureaucracy, which controls fisheries manage- both Northern Territory and Federal politicians. ment in Kakadu National Park (Figure 1). From the perspective of Bininj, these deci- Recreational fishing in the Northern Territory sions about fishing management in the Park is a politically emotive issue and, prior to the encompassed broader issues than a concern Country Liberal Party losing office in 2001, over the health of barramundi stocks. However, it was an integral part of the Government’s strat- the power of the State in the support of the dis- egy to expand its control and management of the course of conservation science acted to obscure Territory’s land and natural resource base. the complexities of a situation characterised by In this paper, the differing frameworks of differences in cultural values and constructions knowledge, language and power that constitute of knowledge. This unequal power relationship particular fishing practices are examined from created though an alliance between science and the perspectives of non-Aboriginal fishers and the State leaves the situated knowledge of Bininj local Aboriginal traditional owners or Bininj (a with a limited field of authority in the non- Gundjeihmi and Kunwinjku word which can Aboriginal domain. Moreover, the complex and © Institute of Australian Geographers 2004 62 Australian Geographical Studies Figure 1 ‘Statehood Protects My Lifestyle’ (Source: Northern Territory Government advertisement in the Sunday Territorian, 6 September 1998, 12. Courtesy of the Northern Territory News). © Institute of Australian Geographers 2004 Fishing Lifestyles 63 multi-dimensional nature of Bininj concerns for Government after the Ranger Uranium Environ- country, a term which refers to the collective mental Inquiry recommended that a jointly identity shared by a group of people, their land managed national park be established as a land (and sea) estate and all the natural and super- use strategy which could balance the competing natural phenomena contained within that estate, interests of Aboriginal land rights, uranium min- renders these concerns invisible or incompre- ing and an influx of non-Aboriginal people into hensible to government, science and fishers who the region. Stage One of Kakadu National Park are guided by a very different set of epistemic was the first successful land claim to be granted commitments. The responses from the fishing under the ALRA. The claim was granted on the public to proposals to curtail their activities in condition that the land be immediately leased Kakadu National Park and the subsequent revi- back to the Commonwealth as a national park. sion of these proposals by local Aboriginal tradi- While only 50% of the Park area is currently tional owners frame the analysis of this paper. Aboriginal land under the ALRA, the terms of It is an analysis that demonstrates, from a par- the Park lease agreement stipulate that the whole ticular vantage point, the discursive, institu- park must be managed as Aboriginal land, and tional and practical impediments and pressures current land claims are attempting to establish a experienced by Aboriginal traditional owners legal basis for this recognition. The Park is man- in their attempts to manage Kakadu National aged under a joint arrangement between the Park according to practices and priorities relev- Kakadu Board of Management, with a majority ant to the Bininj jurisdiction. The paper is not of the Board members being Traditional Abori- an attempt to survey or ascertain the success or ginal Owners, and Parks Australia, a section of otherwise of particular fisheries management Environment Australia (now the Department of regimes. While the issue of sustainable manage- Environment and Heritage), the Commonwealth ment is important to both non-Aboriginal
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