Beyond the Basics: Improving Information About Small-Scale Fisheries

Agapito, Melinda; Chuenpagdee, Ratana; Devillers, Rodolphe; Gee, Jennifer; Johnson, Andrew F.; Pierce, Graham J.; Trouillet, Brice

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-94938-3_20

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“…When shipping was the most explored activity in Set1', there is a clear shift of interest towards fishing when discussing MSP. This is probably the result of various factors including: the existence of a specific monitoring system -VMS-and associated data; the importance of fisheries management in the MSP context, as an historical and widespread activity of which arise most space-related conflicts, especially in more and more coveted coastal waters; the remaining information gaps about fisheries, resulting from both the complexity and diversity of these activities [90] and from a certain culture of secrecy [91].…”

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“…As a result, information extracted from these data do not offer exhaustive depiction of maritime activities spatiotemporal footprint, especially in coastal areas where most ships are below these size limits. A few attempts have been made to fill this gap, either by introducing cooperative data collection (interviews [90,92], GPS on specific fleets, [93,94]) or by mobilizing the potential offered by coastal radars, much less dependent on ship's size [32,95,96]. The extension of requirements for VMS on smaller ships is currently discussed in Europe within the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP, [97]) and could contribute to reducing these gaps.…”

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Exploring uses of maritime surveillance data for marine spatial planning: A review of scientific literature

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Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) has become of key interest in many countries around the world in the last decade, leading to an increased need to inform the historical spatial and temporal footprint of maritime activities. If this knowledge was still recently considered a blind spot, recent developments of maritime surveillance systems (e.g. AIS, VTS, VMS) have allowed to fill some of these gaps by generating significant amounts of spatial data on ships at sea. In this paper, the use of these maritime surveillance data for planning purposes is explored through the lens of the international scientific literature. A first set of 2030 articles dealing with maritime surveillance data and collected through the Web of Science collection was explored to determine the type of data used, the maritime activities addressed and the main objective of each paper (technical developments, safety and security, environmental protection, MSP). This allowed to highlight the growing interest on maritime surveillance data in the scientific literature over the past decades, predominantly towards AIS data and shipping. Over the 2030 papers, only 63 dealt specifically with MSP. These were extracted and explored, allowing to highlight the potential of these data to feed in MSP processes, with a specific focus on fisheries. Nevertheless, the description of actual uses of surveillance-based information within MSP processes remained particularly rare. If this can be seen as a result of a science-policy delay, we suggest that it is mostly related to issues of accessibility, acceptance by economic stakeholders and appropriation by decision makers.

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Exploring uses of maritime surveillance data for marine spatial planning: A review of scientific literature

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“…In most SSFs data on catches, stock status and environmental, economic, and social attributes are often unavailable (Kalikoski and Franz, 2014;Jentoft and Chuenpagdee, 2015;Johnson et al, 2017;Giron-Nava et al, 2018;Agapito et al, 2019). Furthermore, the data that are available are often misreported or patchy (The World Bank, 2012;Cisneros-Montemayor et al, 2013).…”

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“…The wider context that SSF are embedded in adds to this complexity, e.g., international trade relationships, fishers' migration, technological change, and increased tourism (Kittinger et al, 2013;Crona et al, 2015;Eriksson et al, 2015). Apart from this complexity, the frequent lack of fine resolution cultural, socio-economic, and ecological data complicates the development, implementation, and evaluation of policies and management strategies that are sensitive to the local context (Jentoft, 2017;Johnson et al, 2017;Agapito et al, 2019). The combination of complexity and lack of information limits our understanding of how a policy will be received, and often lie at the heart of unintended policy outcomes (Degnbol and McCay, 2007;Lewison et al, 2019).…”

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Navigating Complexities: Agent-Based Modeling to Support Research, Governance, and Management in Small-Scale Fisheries

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The sustainable governance and management of small-scale fisheries (SSF) is challenging, largely due to their dynamic and complex nature. Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a computational modeling approach that can account for the dynamism and complexity in SSF by modeling entities as individual agents with different characteristics and behavior, and simulate how their interactions can give rise to emergent phenomena, such as over-fishing and social inequalities. The structurally realistic design of agentbased models allow stakeholders, experts, and scientists across disciplines and sectors to reconcile different knowledge bases, assumptions, and goals. ABMs can also be designed using any combination of theory, quantitative data, or qualitative data. In this publication we elaborate on the untapped potential of ABM to tackle governance and management challenges in SSF, discuss the limitations of ABM, and review its application in published SSF models. Our review shows that, although few models exist to date, ABM has been used for diverse purposes, including as a research tool for understanding cooperation and over-harvesting, and as a decision-support tool, or participatory tool, in case-specific fisheries. Even though the development of ABMs is often time-and resource intensive, it is the only dynamic modeling approach that can represent entities of different types, their heterogeneity, actions, and interactions, thus doing justice to the complex and dynamic nature of SSF which, if ignored can lead to unintended policy outcomes and less sustainable SSF.

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“…Within fishing activities on a general basis, small-scale fisheries are even more vulnerable when it comes to an overly-spatial approach dominated by technical considerations. Their case is all the more conspicuous for four reasons: (i) a high dependency on the coastal zone, where competition for space is potentially stronger, (ii) a weaker capacity to spatially adapt, (iii) an almost non-existent availability of data enabling them to be taken into account (e.g., in most cases, Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) or Automatic Information System (AIS) data only exists for vessels more than 12 or 15 metres long, depending on the system), and (iv) a characterisation of their importance that is hard to measure against economic metrics solely (Agapito et al, 2018).…”

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More than maps: Providing an alternative for fisheries and fishers in marine spatial planning.

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Bellanger-Husi

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Ocean & Coastal Management

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Although a necessary approach in many cases, implementing Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) reveals discrepancies between theory and practice. These discrepancies include the major importance given to technical issues along with the role and meaning ascribed to the "spatial" dimension at the expense of the "strategic" one. This gives rise to questions especially from the point of view of fisheries that invite to develop a more in-depth critical analysis of MSP. Far from considering the technical and political dimensions in opposition, the goal is to find out whether the reasoning used can be turned around, or in other words, whether the potential of a mapping instrument can be used to give greater importance and more visibility to strategic questions in MSP processes. Our reflection is based on methods used to map fisheries. It is also enhanced by notions such as empowerment and asserting the value of non-scientific knowledge in-situ. To test the strengths and shortcomings of this idea, it was applied in the context of an ongoing 2010 experiment between scientists (geographers and statisticians), fishers and fishers' representatives in metropolitan France. They have been working together for several years and have gradually expanded their scope to now include almost three-quarters of French metropolitan fleets (around 3,250 vessels). This experiment shows that fishers and their representatives are not only able to generate spatial data using robust methods (almost 6,000 surveys have already been conducted), but more importantly that they are also able to draw on this knowledge and participate in debates in a more effective manner, taking on the role of "real actors". This has enabled a more political alternative to take shape, full of promise and giving rise to new questions.

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Beyond the Basics: Improving Information About Small-Scale Fisheries

Cited by 11 publications

References 41 publications

Exploring uses of maritime surveillance data for marine spatial planning: A review of scientific literature

Exploring uses of maritime surveillance data for marine spatial planning: A review of scientific literature

Navigating Complexities: Agent-Based Modeling to Support Research, Governance, and Management in Small-Scale Fisheries

More than maps: Providing an alternative for fisheries and fishers in marine spatial planning.

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