Capturing stakeholder perspectives through a collaboration with a commercial fishing cooperative

Murphy, Robert; Harris, Bradley P.; Estabrooks, Austin; Wolf, Nathan

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2020.103948

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“…A rapidly changing global climate is creating novel conditions and species interactions, which necessitate not just the maintenance of these monitoring efforts, but their enhancement (Hobbs et al 2013; Barange et al 2018). Additionally, as we increasingly recognize fisheries as an amalgamation of both social and ecological systems and push towards ecosystem‐based management, a thorough understanding of the ecological, economic, and social impacts of climatological changes requires new approaches for systematically incorporating stakeholder feedback and knowledge into the management process (Berkes and Folke 1998; Hicks et al 2016; Levin et al 2016; Marshall et al 2018; North Pacific Fishery Management Council 2019; Murphy et al 2020). Fortunately, however, integrating the knowledge and perceptions of resource users into management could provide us with new monitoring tools in the wake of global climate changes, effectively offering pragmatic solutions to critical problems in fisheries management.…”

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Qualitative and Quantitative Fisher Perceptions to Complement Natural Science Data for Managing Fisheries

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Sustainably managing fisheries for ecological and social objectives in the current era of rapid environmental change requires that managers, scientists, and fishery stakeholders work together to find solutions to complex problems. Recognizing that multiple forms of knowledge generation exist and focusing on the strengths of different ways-of-knowing can facilitate a more holistic understanding of these problems. Here, we illustrate the value in both natural and social science-generated information for informing our understanding of a rapidly changing social-ecological system. Using data collected through an in-person and online survey, we show that methods for quantifying user perceptions can facilitate the integration of social data with traditional scientific data collection efforts. Specifically, the synthesis of a Bayesian lifecycle model (Cunningham et al. 2018) for Chinook Salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha and quantified fisher perceptions suggests that natural science efforts and resource users largely agree on many of the factors that may be contributing to the observed declines in abundance of Chinook Salmon in Alaska. A qualitative assessment of the perceptions of resource users revealed benefits to incorporating stakeholders in science and management, including the ability to identify regional issues or trends potentially unrealized by natural science approaches. Our study highlights the synergistic value of multiple sources of ecological information for sustainably managing fishery systems.

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“…While the separation of recreational and commercial fishing sectors is necessary for management and quota allocation purposes, this division may be somewhat fuzzy, with similar attitudes and fishing motivations present within each sector. It is evident that significant variation in fisher perceptions and values can exist even within commercial fisheries, necessitating that efforts to understand fisher behavior accurately represents these diverse viewpoints (Smith and Wilen 2005;Murphy et al 2020).…”

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Diversity In Motivations and Behavioral Response to Regulations in the Striped Bass Commercial Fishery

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It is evident that fishery stakeholder groups are not homogenous, and that inter‐ and intra‐group variation can exist in the form of unique perspectives, motivations for fishery participation, and receptiveness to management measures. However, management agencies often allocate quota and design regulatory plans around distinct groups, such as recreational versus commercial sectors. Our study used the commercial fishery for Striped Bass Morone saxatilis as a case study to explore the motivations and behaviors of commercial fishers in Massachusetts. Results of an online and mail survey suggest that many commercial fishers maintain several motivations for fishing, including both monetary and non‐monetary, like the desire to be outdoors. Intended behavior differences emerged in response to several hypothetical regulatory scenarios, and these disparate behaviors could be partly explained by heterogeneity in fisher motivations and other fishing and non‐fishing attributes. Additionally, we uncovered spillover effects, whereby effort controls could impact other commercial and recreational fisheries. We recommend a relaxation of the assumption that commercial fishers are solely motivated by monetary outcomes, and that holistic approaches to management include information on fisher behavior and motivations.

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Using mental models to quantify linear and non-linear relationships in complex fishery systems

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Capturing stakeholder perspectives through a collaboration with a commercial fishing cooperative

Cited by 3 publications

References 28 publications

Qualitative and Quantitative Fisher Perceptions to Complement Natural Science Data for Managing Fisheries

Qualitative and Quantitative Fisher Perceptions to Complement Natural Science Data for Managing Fisheries

Diversity In Motivations and Behavioral Response to Regulations in the Striped Bass Commercial Fishery

Using mental models to quantify linear and non-linear relationships in complex fishery systems

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