Factors Influencing Community Fishers' Leadership Engagement in International Small-Scale Fisheries

Sutton, Abigail M.; Rudd, Murray A.

doi:10.3389/fmars.2016.00116

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“…Organizations outside of the community and government often enable marine conservation by creating opportunities and tools which motivate conservation such as advocating concern for marine issues, providing scientific expertise, implementing conservation plans, enforcing management strategies and enabling the facilitation and capacity building in communities (Sutton and Rudd 2016). A collaborative environment which brings together public policy decision-making and positively engages people in public and private agencies, government and the civic society, creates an attitude of ethical engagement, communal motivation and the ability for collective achievements (Emerson et al 2012).…”

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“…When legitimate leaders inspire changes which are guided by the collective interests of the community, their decision-making enhances the community’s compliance to regulation changes and a community’s resilience as they go through governance changes (Olsson et al 2004 ). When a community acknowledges a leader, they impact the strength of their leader’s influence and the obedience of the community (Sutton and Rudd 2016 ); which impacts on the success of conservation outcomes (Ison et al 2021 ). For example, in Denimanu village, turtle fishermen comply to the turtle legislation because of the ban placed on sea turtle harvest by the chief and the community-based initiative to protect sea turtles.…”

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Conservation status and cultural values of sea turtles leading to (un)written parallel management systems in Fiji

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Soderberg

Qaqara

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Globally and locally, conservationists and scientists work to inform policy makers to help recovery of endangered sea turtle populations. In Fiji, in the South Pacific, sea turtles are protected by the national legislation because of their conservation status, and are also a customary iTaukei resource. Centered on our interview-based study at Qoma and Denimanu villages, parallel management systems coexist, where both the (written) national legislation and the (unwritten) customary iTaukei rules determine the time and the quantity of sea turtle harvest. In addition, non-governmental organizations and academic institutions may influence local sea turtle management by providing scientific awareness and helping divert the economic values from the meat to the living animal. We suggest that the government and non-governmental organizations emphasize community management of sea turtles, and work alongside the customary chiefs and their fishing clans to understand the real harvest (eventually by allowing quotas) and to monitor the recovery of South Pacific sea turtles in Fijian waters.

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Conservation status and cultural values of sea turtles leading to (un)written parallel management systems in Fiji

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Soderberg

Qaqara

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“…They also have in common that they have been passionately fought for and thoroughly studied. On Arran, the campaign for better protection of their seas was kick-started and taken forward by a small band of committed and inspirational leaders, but its success equally lies with the engagement and support from the local community (Sutton and Rudd, 2016). This was not only crucial for building the case that the seas are a public good which should be managed for the benefit of all, but it also made COAST more resilient to the dynamics and challenges of a long, at times fraught, and ongoing campaign.…”

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Marine Conservation Begins at Home: How a Local Community and Protection of a Small Bay Sent Waves of Change Around the UK and Beyond

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The Firth of Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland, was once one of the most productive fishing grounds in Europe. However, successive decades of poor management and overfishing led to a dramatic loss of biodiversity and the collapse of finfish fisheries. In response, concerned local residents on the Isle of Arran, which lies in the middle of the Clyde, formed the Community of Arran Seabed Trust (COAST) in 1995. After 13 years of campaigning, a small (2.67 km 2) area in Lamlash Bay became Scotland's first no-take zone (NTZ) in 2008, and only the second in the UK. Since protection, biodiversity has increased substantially, along with the size, age and density of commercially important species such as the king scallop, Pecten maximus, and the European lobster, Homarus gammarus. Arguably more important, however, is the influence the Lamlash Bay NTZ and COAST have had on UK marine protection in general. Most notably, detailed research has created a case study that clearly demonstrates the benefits of protection in an area where little such evidence is available. This case has been used repeatedly to support efforts for increased protection of UK waters to help rebuild marine ecosystems and enhance their resilience in an uncertain future. In Scotland specifically, lobbying by COAST led to the designation of a much larger marine protected area (MPA, >250 km 2) around the south of Arran, one of 30 new MPAs in the country. Evidence from Lamlash Bay has supported development of strong protection for these MPAs, seeing off lobbyist efforts to weaken management. Arran's conservation success has been recognized internationally and is inspiring greater involvement of local communities around the UK, and further afield, to take the destiny of their coastal waters into their own hands. Successful marine conservation begins at home.

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“…When cast in an ocean-oriented, asset-based context (Rudd, 2004(Rudd, , 2010, both rules (i.e., boundary rules governing actors' entry and exit to the action arena; authority rules regarding how, where, and when activities are conducted; information rules about monitoring and reporting; scope rules regarding permitted, prohibited, or required outputs and outcomes; and payoff rules that alter incentives) and investments (e.g., education, training, building social networks, technological advance, ecological restoration, etc...) can be viewed as potential targets for policy action (Figure 1). Further, initiatives can be undertaken to shift social norms and peoples' beliefs (so that behavioral change follows-see Sunstein, 2014), so as to help insulate vulnerable portions of society from the effects of exogenous driving forces through capacity-building investments (Adger et al, 2005;Smit and Wandel, 2006), or develop new models for governance and management (e.g., FIGURE 1 | Basic capital asset-based IAD framework (adapted from Sutton and Rudd, 2016). Slocombe, 1993;Sorensen, 1997;Armitage, 2005;Folke et al, 2005;Leslie and McLeod, 2007).…”

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What a Decade (2006–15) Of Journal Abstracts Can Tell Us about Trends in Ocean and Coastal Sustainability Challenges and Solutions

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2017

Front. Mar. Sci.

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Text mining and analytics may offer possibilities to assess scientists' professional writing and identify patterns of co-occurrence between words and phrases associated with different environmental challenges and their potential solutions. This approach has the potential to help to track emerging issues, semi-automate horizon scanning processes, and identify how different institutions or policy instruments are associated with different types of ocean and coastal sustainability challenges. Here I examine ecologically-oriented ocean and coastal science journal article abstracts published between 2006 and 2015. Informed by the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework, I constructed a dictionary containing phrases associated with 40 ocean challenges and 15 solution-oriented instrument or investments. From 50,817 potentially relevant abstracts, different patterns of co-occurring text associated with challenges and potential solutions were discernable. Topics receiving significantly increased attention in the literature in 2014-15 relative to the 2006-13 period included: marine plastics and debris; environmental conservation; social impacts; ocean acidification; general terrestrial influences; co-management strategies; ocean warming; licensing and access rights; oil spills; and economic impacts. Articles relating to global environmental change were consistently among the most cited; marine plastics and ecosystem trophic structure were also focal topics among the highly cited articles. This exploratory research suggests that scientists' written outputs provide fertile ground for identifying and tracking important and emerging ocean sustainability issues and their possible solutions, as well as the organizations and scientists who work on them.

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Factors Influencing Community Fishers' Leadership Engagement in International Small-Scale Fisheries

Cited by 7 publications

References 68 publications

Conservation status and cultural values of sea turtles leading to (un)written parallel management systems in Fiji

Conservation status and cultural values of sea turtles leading to (un)written parallel management systems in Fiji

Marine Conservation Begins at Home: How a Local Community and Protection of a Small Bay Sent Waves of Change Around the UK and Beyond

What a Decade (2006–15) Of Journal Abstracts Can Tell Us about Trends in Ocean and Coastal Sustainability Challenges and Solutions

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