INDIGENOUS 'TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE' IN FISHERY AND 'SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT': INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PRACTICE

With a growing emphasis to the problem of sustainable development and indigenous issues, states and international organizations pay attention to indigenous peoples' 'traditional environmental knowledge' as "a particular form of knowledge of the diversity and interactions among plants and animals, landforms, watercourses, and other traits of the biophysical environment in a given place". Sometimes its called Traditional Ecological Knowledge, it is typically associated with aboriginal peoples"[6, p. 198]. The purpose of the article is to show in practice how states apply indigenous knowledge to protect environment, especially in fishery activity.