![]() The problems of “too much of a bad thing” were turned into the opportunities for productive resource management that Ostrom associates with communities and collectives. Acheson's ( 1988) “The Lobster Gangs of Maine” remains a seminal study of community management of depletable lobster fisheries, an anchor and pole star for research in the tradition of Elinor Ostrom. Only then did lobsters become symbols of status, taste, and value (Mishan, 2021). ![]() Though lobster meat was once so abundant that it was deemed suitable only for the poor, in the twentieth century trapping lobsters started to replace plucking them straight from shallow water. Consider again the lobster, to borrow the title of Wallace's ( 2004) well-known essay. ![]()
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