Decent work in a seascape of livelihoods: Regional evaluation of the shrimp and groundfish fishery of the Guianas-Brazil shelf

Lout, Gabrielle; Fitzpatrick, Juno; Lozano, Alejandro J. García; Finkbeiner, Elena M.

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105231

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“…Following ILO's lead, scholars have begun to apply the decent work perspective on labour to fisheries both at a general (Garcia Lozano et al., 2022; Giron‐Nava et al., 2021) and a regional level (Lout et al., 2022). Flagrant human right abuses have been documented in certain hotspot regions, such as Southeast Asia (Garcia Lozano et al., 2022).…”

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Maximum sustainable employment: Adding to the beacons of wild fisheries governance

Bavinck,

Scholtens,

Fabinyi

2024

Fish and Fisheries

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This paper proposes to establish Maximum Sustainable Employment (MSE) as a new guiding light, or beacon, for wild fisheries governance. This new social beacon complements the directives provided by the prevailing beacons: Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) and Maximum Economic Yield (MEY). The argument is that context matters: in countries where poverty levels are high and alternative employment is scarce, fisheries governors cannot limit themselves to a sectoral perspective. Instead, they must include the remunerative employment and ‘decent work’ that wild fisheries offer society in their strategic deliberations. This perspective is especially relevant for countries in the Global South, but it also has a bearing on the Global North. After discussing the history of scientific fisheries management and the relevance of employment in fisheries, the paper considers the arguments made against MSE. It concludes with a reflection on the balancing of the three beacons in line with prevailing circumstances.

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Section: The Employment Imperativementioning

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Maximum sustainable employment: Adding to the beacons of wild fisheries governance

Bavinck,

Scholtens,

Fabinyi

2024

Fish and Fisheries

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“…One of the dimensions established by Yildirim et al [15] that adds value to SDW is safe working conditions, which positively impact the motivation of workers; nevertheless, industrial conditions were not defined. Lout et al [16] establish safety at work as one of the main elements in measuring the absence of SDW. Finally, Yan et al [17] select a scale to measure the perception of decent work by measuring the well-being of workers in the workplace.…”

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Fuzzy Logic Method for Measuring Sustainable Decent Work Levels as a Corporate Social Responsibility Approach

Abundes-Recilla,

Seuret-Jiménez,

Contreras-Valenzuela

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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The purpose of this study was to propose an interactive computer system that utilises the MATLAB Fuzzy Logic Designer to measure the level of implementation of SDG 8, which focuses on sustainable decent work (SDW) and economic growth. This study used policies and laws as parameters to determine the presence or absence of SDW. The fuzzy method was implemented in car windshield manufacturing in the auto parts industry as a case study to define and quantify work conditions and to determine the level of sustainable decent work (SDWL). The study described environmental conditions, such as noise, lighting, and heat stress; ergonomic factors, such as exposure time, the mass of the object manipulated, and lifting frequency; and organisation at work, such as workplace violence, salary, and workday, as linguistic variables. The level of the presence or absence of SDW was defined as their membership functions. The resulting vectors determined the absence of SDW with a score of 1.5 in two linguistic variables: environmental conditions and ergonomic factors. Some features of SDW in the linguistic variable organisation at work had an SDW score of 5. The SDWL vector determined a final score of 1.24, indicating the absence of decent work in production areas. This study found that the workers suffer a lack of long and healthy lives and a bad standard of living without economic growth due to work-related musculoskeletal disorders and work illnesses, increasing their out-of-pocket spending and catastrophic health expenses. As a CSR approach, assessing SDWLs helped managers improve policies and work conditions.

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Elevating labor concerns in small-scale fisheries: challenges to decent work in Peru’s jumbo flying squid fishery

Lozano,

Shibata,

Jeri

et al. 2024

Maritime Studies

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Despite growing attention on severe labor abuses in seafood production, questions remain about the broader range of challenges to decent work in the sector. Small-scale fisheries (SSFs) in particular have received relatively little attention from a labor-focused perspective. Motivated by this gap, this study elaborates a methodology to assess working conditions in SSFs across multiple dimensions of decent work, specifically through a case study of the artisanal jumbo squid fishery in Peru, a socially and economically important fishery in which working conditions are poorly understood. The findings highlight key decent work deficits in this fishery, including: inadequate coverage and lack of social protections; remuneration occasionally below the minimum wage; excessive working hours; increasingly longer trips in vessels that often lack adequate occupational safety and health features; informal employment relations and high turnover of crew, which are linked to safety issues (i.e., crew sometimes lack skills for this difficult work at sea); and fragmented fishing organizations with limited capacities for social dialogue. Many of the problems are rooted in or exacerbated by the broader governance context, especially widespread informality. The primary policy solutions being pursued are not labor-specific and are unlikely to address decent work deficits. Addressing these complex problems will require involving fishers—importantly, crew members—in efforts to drive improvements in the fishery and enhancing their capacities to lead in the development of solutions to the problems that affect them. More work is necessary to refine indicators and assess working conditions, but this work contributes towards advancing methodologies and highlighting the importance of studying labor in SSFs.

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Decent work in a seascape of livelihoods: Regional evaluation of the shrimp and groundfish fishery of the Guianas-Brazil shelf

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Maximum sustainable employment: Adding to the beacons of wild fisheries governance

Maximum sustainable employment: Adding to the beacons of wild fisheries governance

Fuzzy Logic Method for Measuring Sustainable Decent Work Levels as a Corporate Social Responsibility Approach

Elevating labor concerns in small-scale fisheries: challenges to decent work in Peru’s jumbo flying squid fishery

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