Biswas, Nilanjana https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0587-7672
Stacey, Natasha https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2262-9817
Funding for this research was provided by:
Charles Darwin University
Article History
Received: 22 April 2025
Accepted: 24 September 2025
First Online: 10 October 2025
Declarations
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: Data was collected under Charles Darwin University Human Research Ethics Approval (Approval Code H24057). Written informed consent was obtained from all participants involved in this study.
: It is declared an author on this paper Natasha Stacey is an Associate editor for Maritime Studies and a guest editor of the Topical Collection ‘Encountering Maritime Northern Australia: Perspectives on Sea Country, Fisheries, and Livelihoods,’ in which this paper will be published.The authors declare that they have no competing financial or non-financial interests.
: Nilanjana Biswas is a female/woman of middle-class Indian origin, and an international student and ethnic minority group member in Australia. She has worked for the last thirty years on issues related to gender, including in the small-scale fisheries, using a broadly feminist/intersectionality standpoint. Natasha Stacey is a female/woman of middleclass Caucasian Australian origin and a long-standing NT resident with experience and expertise in Indigenous and non-Indigenous commercial, customary and recreational fisheries, livelihoods and community-based research.