The good, the bad and the ugly: risk, uncertainty and decision-making by Victorian fishers

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Earlier versions of this article were presented to the Anthropology Seminar Program, The University of Melbourne, Australia and the Department of Anthropology and the Durrell Institute of Conservation Ecology, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. We thank participants at those seminars for their comments and Roger Just for his invitation to present a paper at the latter venue. We thank the fishers of Lakes Entrance whose lives we have intruded upon and report, 'Ned' and 'Rule' for checking particular sections of this article, Simone Blair and Tanya King for many conversations about fishing and fishers, and Simon Batterbury and two referees for useful comments on the manuscript. Our research has been supported by grants from The Australian Research Council.