Evolution of a local Brazilian shrimp market

Seixas, Cristiana Simão; Troutt, Elizabeth

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“…In addition, socioeconomic changes such as the expansion of markets, common to several fishing communities on the coast of Santa Catarina in the 1980s (Seixas and Troutt 2003), decreased the dependence on local salgas with strong roles in sanctioning mechanisms. Constant migration of vessels along the coast created a larger ''shrimp fishery territory'' and Barra do Sul fishing grounds agglutinated fishers from north and south fishing villages (Guanais et al 2015).…”

Section: Challenges To Building Local Fishery Governance Institutionsmentioning

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Conditions for successful local resource management: lessons from a Brazilian small-scale trawling fishery

Serafini¹,

Medeiros²,

Andriguetto-Filho³

2016

Reg Environ Change

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Conditions for successful common-pool resources management institutions have been systematized by Elinor Ostrom as a set of ''design principles for robust governance''. The comparison of two attempts to developing a local informal managing institution for shrimp trawling, 30 years apart (the late 1970s and 2010 attempts), and in the same community (therefore, the same socioecological system-SES) in Southern Brazil, provides a convenient ground to test the hypothesis that the degree of success of each attempt is related to the degree of adherence to Ostrom's principles. Moreover, the comparison allows investigating how conditions and changes in the SES affect management institutions. Our institutional analysis showed that the 1970s attempt followed a local rule that best fitted almost all principles, which may explain its relative success and longer-lasting activity. However, changes such as the emergence of new technologies and increased fishing activity gradually led to an erosion of the local rule. A low level of group cohesion, regional socioeconomic changes, increased fishing effort, and lack of legal provisions for fishers to develop local managing institutions were the main factors that led to institutional failure in the two evaluated attempts. Additionally, the lack of ability to adapt to changing conditions weakened the continuity of the management regime. Although Brazil has created new fishery co-management policies, strategies to enable institutions at local levels are urgently needed for improved performance.

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Section: Challenges To Building Local Fishery Governance Institutionsmentioning

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Conditions for successful local resource management: lessons from a Brazilian small-scale trawling fishery

Serafini¹,

Medeiros²,

Andriguetto-Filho³

2016

Reg Environ Change

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“…Management practices were flexible and resilient 7 , based on local ecological knowledge, and enforced by social rules. (Seixas and Berkes 2003a,b) During the 1970s, the lagoon became open-access due to several changes in local socio-economic conditions, including the development of external markets for shrimp Berkes 2003b, Seixas andTroutt 2003). The system regained its resilience during the 1980s and early 1990s.…”

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Challenging Coasts : Transdisciplinary Excursions into Integrated Coastal Zone Development

Visser¹

2004

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The publication of this book is made possible by a grant from the University of Amsterdam (Centraal Onderzoeksfonds).Cover illustration: Senegalese canoes on the beach of Nouakchott. Mauritania. All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of both the copyright owner and the author of the book. Series ForewordThis is the first volume of the MARE Publication Series, and a cause for celebration. The initiating agency, the Centre for Maritime Research (MARE), is an interdisciplinary social-science organisation based in the Netherlands, whose aim is to provide a platform for the development and exchange of scientific knowledge on the use of marine and coastal resources. Its mission is to be a European research centre that is also explicitly concerned with maritime issues in the South. Its activities include the publication of the refereed journal Maritime Studies/MAST and, on a regular basis, the organisation of conferences on maritime and coastal topics.We, the editors, are striving to create a series that addresses topics of contemporary relevance in the wide field of people and the sea. Our intention is to ensure the highest academic standards, through the involvement of specialists in the field and through the instrument of peer review. While allowing for diversity, we also, however, aim for coherence, if only in purpose.Social scientists in the marine and coastal fields are a dispersed bunch. This is certainly true of those in Europe and the South. Our interaction is impeded not only by our geographical spread across departments and universities, but also by language barriers. The series thus aims to make visible, in the language with the greatest global reach, the excellent intellectual work that is being done by scholars on and from the various regions. Our concern is to ensure that scholarly work on coastal issues is disseminated widely, including to lowincome countries, so we aim to keep the price of our publications as low as possible.Coastal zones the world over are facing a range of challenges, and the scholarly debate is currently tending to concentrate on the concerns of management and governance. While these topics will also figure in this series, we have no intention of producing policy handbooks. Our objective is rather to reflect critically -on contemporary fashions, too -and to explore new avenues of thought. 5The present volume is a case in point. While co-operation between natural and social scientists is frequently paid lip service, the results of co-operation efforts are still limited. Exploring the direction in which transdisciplinary research might proceed, the editor has brought together cases from different disciplines and parts of the world that together contribute to an identification of the potential for coastal zone development...

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“…This offer is made in a meeting before the opening of the season, but the system allows for the possibility of changing a buyer during the season if another buyer offers a better price (Solares-Leal and Alvarez-Gil, 2003). Another example -the case of the Ibiraquera Lagoon in Brazil -illustrates how the shrimp local trade is influenced by ecological processes, socio-economic relations, and regional markets (Seixas and Troutt, 2003). When a local market for shrimp trade in the region developed along with tourism and its related infrastructure (Seixas and Troutt, 2003), fishers were able to choose whether to sell to intermediaries or directly to local stores and restaurants, weakening the pre-existing exclusive relation of patronage between intermediaries and fishers (Seixas and Troutt, 2003).…”

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“…Another example -the case of the Ibiraquera Lagoon in Brazil -illustrates how the shrimp local trade is influenced by ecological processes, socio-economic relations, and regional markets (Seixas and Troutt, 2003). When a local market for shrimp trade in the region developed along with tourism and its related infrastructure (Seixas and Troutt, 2003), fishers were able to choose whether to sell to intermediaries or directly to local stores and restaurants, weakening the pre-existing exclusive relation of patronage between intermediaries and fishers (Seixas and Troutt, 2003). In short, the success of the economic activity of rural primary producers such as fishers, or coffee farmers, seems to rely on their ability to avoid intermediaries.…”

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“…In short, the success of the economic activity of rural primary producers such as fishers, or coffee farmers, seems to rely on their ability to avoid intermediaries. This happens when a local market can be accessed directly by producers, as in the case of the Ibiraquera Lagoon in Brazil (Seixas and Troutt, 2003), but when the local market is not large enough, a cooperative may be the only way for fishers to gain stronger bargaining power.…”

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Can Fishers' Virtuous Behavior Improve Large Marine Ecosystem Health?

Giannini

2011

World Fisheries

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Fish landings have been diminishing over the last decades in the Bahía de Amatique, Guatemala, following a worldwide trend in natural food production. There are several drivers for this, acting at different scales and involving different issues. Some of the most obvious causes of natural resources production decline and ecosystem damage are a direct result of human activity: overfishing and pollution. There are also other, less obvious, social, environmental, and economic drivers. Many are linked in cause-effect relationships and, taken together, they have consequences for the livelihoods of coastal populations. In this chapter, I examine how these cause-effect relations work, and how they can be altered to ameliorate the livelihoods of artisanal fishers and their communities. Following discussion of the general issue, I analyse a case study: the "Red de Pescadores Artesanales del Caribe Guatemalteco y Lago de Izabal" (Red, Network of the artisanal fishers of the Guatemalan Caribbean and of Lake Izabal) based in Livingston, Guatemala. The Red is based on the recognition by fishers of common needs and the determination to find solutions to common problems. I examine the projects and goals of the Red in relation to the changes that have taken place since its foundation, and then propose further research needs to tackle some of the bigger scale issues, such as watershed contamination.

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Evolution of a local Brazilian shrimp market

Cited by 13 publications

References 6 publications

Conditions for successful local resource management: lessons from a Brazilian small-scale trawling fishery

Conditions for successful local resource management: lessons from a Brazilian small-scale trawling fishery

Challenging Coasts : Transdisciplinary Excursions into Integrated Coastal Zone Development

Can Fishers' Virtuous Behavior Improve Large Marine Ecosystem Health?

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