Bycatch mitigation in context: Using qualitative interview data to improve assessment and mitigation in a data-rich fishery

Carruthers, Erin H.; Neis, Barbara

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2011.06.007

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“…Murray et al (2008), for example, have shown that the ecological knowledge of harvesters provides a valuable local scale complement to scientific information about cod migration and stock structure in the northern Gulf of St. Lawrence in Newfoundland, Canada. Most of the existing http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss2/art49/ research on commercial fish harvesters' ecological knowledge and science has focused on long-standing, small-scale fisheries; exceptions are Hind (2012) and Carruthers and Neis (2011). Here we present qualitative information from interviews with captains of Namibian, industrial, demersal, trawl and longline vessels, and we present information resultinf form out analyses of logbook data.…”

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Rebuilding the Namibian hake fishery: a case for collaboration between scientists and fishermen

Paterson¹,

Kainge²

2014

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ABSTRACT. One of the most important fisheries in the northern Benguela is the Namibian hake fishery, which targets both Merluccius capensis and Merluccius paradoxus. In spite of attempts to rebuild the hake stocks that were severely depleted by distant-water fleets before Namibia's independence in 1990, stocks have failed to recover. Because the ecological goal of stock rebuilding competes with social and economic objectives on the political stage, the ability to make accurate abundance estimates is important. However, the precision of abundance estimates is impeded by lack of understanding of hake behavior and of the effects of environmental factors. Furthermore, at present both species of hake are assessed and managed as one Namibian stock. We present qualitative information derived from interviews that we conducted with Namibian hake trawl and longline fishers during the 2009 and 2010 fishing seasons, and information gleaned from analyzing logbook data. We contextualize both types of data within the scientific literature on Namibian hakes and the Namibian hake fishery. Fishers monitor sea surface and bottom temperature, water quality, currents, and weather, and they have detailed knowledge about the behavior and habitat of hakes. Fishers differentiate between three different types of M. capensis, which they associate with different fishing areas. They also describe innovations that have taken place over the past 20 years, which are of relevance to the assessment of fishing efficiency and effort, but have not been taken into account in the stock assessments. Our analysis of logbook data supports the increase in efficiency. The results show that closer collaboration between scientists and fishers has the potential to improve the accuracy of survey estimates and stock assessments, and thus is important for rebuilding of hake stocks and the hake fishery.

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“…The quotations used here reflect common themes. To honor our obligation to consider risks and benefits that may derive from participation in our research (Maurstad 2002, Carruthers andNeis 2011) we provided sufficient information to allow participants to give free and informed consent by explaining the research process in writing.…”

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Rebuilding the Namibian hake fishery: a case for collaboration between scientists and fishermen

Paterson¹,

Kainge²

2014

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“…Alongside and sometimes integrated with this research on fisheries science is a series of reviews of existing research and new studies documenting and comparing the ecological knowledge of commercial fishermen with science, that continues to grow and diversify (see, for instance, [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]). The vast majority of research on fish harvesters' ecological knowledge and science has focused on small-scale fisheries and more specifically on the knowledge of the skipper.…”

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“…This is much more likely to be a feature of more tightly managed systems, particularly those where mechanisms like logbooks are used not only to understand what is happening with commercial fish stocks and other parts of the marine ecosystem but also for monitoring and to guide management. In this context, as argued by Carruthers and Neis [23], researchers and fishers need to be aware from the start of their projects that the knowledge fishers share with researchers 'could come back to bite them.' These contexts are also likely to produce unreliable information that neither scientists nor fishermen trust, particularly when logbook and other kinds of data are used to police such things as landings, and when one or both parties are aware of data distortion caused by a range of factors.…”

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Introduction to the special issue marine policy science, state and fishers knowledge in the Benguela ecosystem in Southern Africa

Neis

2015

Marine Policy

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“…Studies worldwide point to the important role that government agency staff and other actors play in influencing the performance and outcomes of any consent planning process, and in revealing complexities of a given issue or system (Salzman & Ruhl 2000;Carruthers & Neis 2011). The purpose of this research was to gain an understanding of how the concept of ecological compensation is being, and could be, used in New Zealand, by surveying those who regularly encounter the concept in either a professional or a voluntary capacity.…”

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Implementing ecological compensation in New Zealand: stakeholder perspectives and a way forward

Brown

Clarkson

Barton

et al. 2013

Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand

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Ecological compensation is widely used, and often criticised, for promulgating poor outcomes for biodiversity. There is a lack of systematic research on ecological compensation and, to date, limited research globally into the perspectives of the various stakeholders involved. We undertook 116 semistructured interviews with practitioners working with ecological compensation in New Zealand. Participants consider that benefits to biodiversity are the chief attraction of ecological compensation (49.2% of all responses), with the disadvantages mainly relating to the difficulties of practical implementation of the concept. Our results also show that 96.5% of participants support the concept fully or to a limited extent and most (83%) participants consider that it contributes to sustainable management, with significant support (87.9%) for a statutory approach. Formal statutory guidance at a national level in New Zealand, and an increased focus upon follow-up and monitoring, is considered likely to generate more robust exchanges.

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Bycatch mitigation in context: Using qualitative interview data to improve assessment and mitigation in a data-rich fishery

Cited by 44 publications

References 39 publications

Rebuilding the Namibian hake fishery: a case for collaboration between scientists and fishermen

Rebuilding the Namibian hake fishery: a case for collaboration between scientists and fishermen

Introduction to the special issue marine policy science, state and fishers knowledge in the Benguela ecosystem in Southern Africa

Implementing ecological compensation in New Zealand: stakeholder perspectives and a way forward

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