Euskal arrantzaleak eta Gaskoin arrrantzaleak

Abstract

Fishing, as an economic activity for the people who make a living thereof, also turns out to be also a form of living with human relations within and around the core group. Evidently, there are relationships of many kinds and, like the working techniques, they change with the passing of time. The distinction between Basque and Gascoigne fishermen, still frequently referred to in terms of language and territoriality, also includes the fishing techniques employed by each in the past. But nowadays - especially in the era of new techniques - does such a distinction still exist? Being neighbours as they are, aren't the Basque and Gascoigne fishermen, who have to overcome so many obstacles, inventing new knowledge and mutual exchange like that existing in a new language? If they really want to defend their activity in the future, without being asphyxiated and marginalised in the process by circumstances.