Effort Triggers, Fish Flow, and Customary Exchange in American Samoa and the Northern Marianas: Critical Human Dimensions of Western Pacific Fisheries

Severance, Craig; Franco, Robert W.; Hamnett, Michael P.; Anderson, Cheryl L.; Aitaoto, Fini

doi:10.2984/67.3.6

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“…To obtain indicators of the cultural value of the fishery, we assessed the prevalence of two key practices: (1) The fraction of catch that fishers indicated was to be used for social gatherings ( pā‘ina ); and, (2) The giving of seafood away to friends, extended family, and community members. Fishers often provide seafood for community cultural events such as birthdays, weddings, or funerals [ 49 ]. Additionally, giving seafood to friends and family is part of cultural practice in Hawai‘i and the Pacific Islands region, and is an indicator of the cultural value of the fishery [ 50 ].…”

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“…This fishery provided ~30,500 meals, with a market value of $78,432 annually (for 7,353 kg of seafood catch), which offsets food budgets for community members. The large seafood harvest that is given away or caught specifically for cultural events also reveals the importance of sociocultural values in motivating fishing activities, a common occurrence in the Asia-Pacific region [ 49 , 50 , 58 ]. The mixed mode of reliance (subsistence, livelihood, cultural) has been observed in other similar systems with communities highly dependent on local natural resources for food security [ 13 , 16 , 59 ].…”

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From Reef to Table: Social and Ecological Factors Affecting Coral Reef Fisheries, Artisanal Seafood Supply Chains, and Seafood Security

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Ocean and coastal ecosystems provide critical fisheries, coastal protection, and cultural benefits to communities worldwide, but these services are diminishing due to local and global threats. In response, place-based strategies involve communities and resource users in management have proliferated. Here, we present a transferable community-based approach to assess the social and ecological factors affecting resource sustainability and food security in a small-scale, coral reef fishery. Our results show that this small-scale fishery provides large-scale benefits to communities, including 7,353 ± 1547 kg yr-1 (mean ± SE) of seafood per year, equating to >30,000 meals with an economic value of $78,432. The vast majority of the catch is used for subsistence, contributing to community food security: 58% is kept, 33.5% is given away, and 8.5% is sold. Our spatial analysis assesses the geographic distribution of community beneficiaries from the fishery (the “food shed” for the fishery), and we document that 20% of seafood procured from the fishery is used for sociocultural events that are important for social cohesion. This approach provides a method for assessing social, economic, and cultural values provided by small-scale food systems, as well as important contributions to food security, with significant implications for conservation and management. This interdisciplinary effort aims to demonstrate a transferable participatory research approach useful for resource-dependent communities as they cope with socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental change.

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From Reef to Table: Social and Ecological Factors Affecting Coral Reef Fisheries, Artisanal Seafood Supply Chains, and Seafood Security

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“…Kittinger, Glazier, and colleagues have used the post-landings disposition and distribution of seafood, or "fi sh fl ow," as a way to distinguish between market segments in these diverse small-scale fi sheries (Kittinger et al 2015 ;Glazier et al 2013 ;Vaughan and Vitousek 2013 ). For example, coral reef and estuarine fi sheries are primarily noncommercial as most catch is kept for consumption within the household or given as part of customary exchange (Kittinger 2013 ), which maintains social ties among fi shers and their social-kinship network (Severance et al 2013 ).…”

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Interactive Governance for Small-Scale Fisheries

Jentoft¹,

Chuenpagdee²

2015

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“…As noted, there is no formal definition of subsistence fishing in Hawaii; however, an emerging, though as yet not fully coherent, description tentatively postulates that the distinction between 'economic' and 'socio-cultural' subsistence fishing is arbitrary (see, for instance, Friedlander and Parrish 1997;Glazier 2009;Severance et al 2013). A 2008 draft paper prepared for the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council (NOAA n.d.) on subsistence fishing points out that customary exchange, barter, and trade are all important components of the subsistence fisheries complex.…”

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Mauss, Interestedness, and Disinterestedness: Hawaiian and Maori Fisheries

McCormack¹

2015

Anthropological Forum

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This article uses Mauss's thesis on The Gift as a lens through which to critically compare Hawaiian and Maōri fisheries. I focus, in particular, on the specific and paradoxical blending of interestedness and disinterestedness in the subsistence sector in Hawaii, and the historical separation of these phenomena in the context of fisheries management in New Zealand. As emergent financial commodities fish symbolises a new type of disjuncture between production and exchange, a disjuncture which is likely to be unsustainable in terms of either human or environmental costs.

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Effort Triggers, Fish Flow, and Customary Exchange in American Samoa and the Northern Marianas: Critical Human Dimensions of Western Pacific Fisheries

Cited by 24 publications

References 2 publications

From Reef to Table: Social and Ecological Factors Affecting Coral Reef Fisheries, Artisanal Seafood Supply Chains, and Seafood Security

From Reef to Table: Social and Ecological Factors Affecting Coral Reef Fisheries, Artisanal Seafood Supply Chains, and Seafood Security

Interactive Governance for Small-Scale Fisheries

Mauss, Interestedness, and Disinterestedness: Hawaiian and Maori Fisheries

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