Sweden promoted fish stocking as wartime food security policy.

Evidence

Upon formation the land owners transferred their collective fishing rights to the fishing association (Agreements 1943 Feb). In subsequent years, intensive work began to increase the fish-stock in the lakes around Ängersjö. Similar developments appeared throughout Sweden at this period of time. The Second World War had put Sweden in a state of alert and increased fish yields were regarded as an important national food security issue and the County Administrative Board (CAB) urged all fishing associations in the county to increase their stock of fish (CAB 1943). The Ängersjö fishing association applied for permission and received money to plant out fish and for constructing fish ponds. Over the years, the members of the association have developed an intricate system of rules over who is allowed to fish, when and on what waters. — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 45

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why did fishing rights collectively owned by a village get transferred to a separate association — what spurred that legal restructuring, and how do these voluntary rules withstand non-members (the free-rider problem)?
• XREF: Connects to Ostrom’s governing-the-commons findings: the association’s intricate rules over who may fish, when, and where is exactly the kind of self-designed institutional arrangement she found sustains common-pool resources.
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 45