Ethics of the Sea – Experience of the Vis Archipelago Fishermen
Ethics of the Sea – Experience of the Vis Archipelago Fishermen

Summary/Abstract: This paper is based on the author’s years-long research on the experience of Vis archipelago fishermen, their ethics and mutual relationships in the extreme conditions of fishing at distant open sea islands of the Adriatic, where they were continously exposed to pirate attacks, open sea elements, with boats powered by wind or man, in small living quarters of a boat and fiercely competing with each other. In such extreme conditions the only answer to the challenge of survival was mutual solidarity, willingness to help one another, the principle of egalitarianism and mutual respect. The author also speaks about the transethnic culture of people living at sea, the phenomenon of the sea as the liquid element which does not divide but rather connects different shores, cultures and languages. Finally, he speaks about the insular world whose most important social principle is work as the basis of survival, sacrificing oneself for the sake of another and high value of each individual, who deserves to be held in esteem through his work and sacrifice in spite of his selfish interests.

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