Fishermen Resistance to Exit Fisheries

Ikiara, Moses; Odink, J.G.

doi:10.1086/mre.14.3.42629265

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“…Indeed, as previously noted, reluctance to exit fisheries by fishers has been identified within recent studies (Cinner et al 2009b;Teh et al 2008;Pradhan & Leung 2004;Ikiara & Odink 2000). This inertia to change may also transcend into less extreme novel management strategies.…”

Section: Limitations and Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 83%

Investigating fishers’ preferences for the design of marine Payments for Environmental Services schemes

Barr

Mourato

2014

Ecological Economics

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We determine the effects of various management restrictions on adoption rates of marine Payments for Environmental Services (PES) schemes. Choice experiments are used in order to determine how fisher participation rates change under different marine PES programme designs. Various designs, with differing restriction rates, show different rates of adoption. However, fishers show a high utility loss associated with any move away from the current management situation, irrespective of restriction levels. This indicates that PES scheme costs may be high and creating an enabling environment could be important to reducing perceived losses, as could investment into conditional in-kind compensation mechanisms. The paper also shows choice experiments to be a useful tool in marine PES design.

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Section: Limitations and Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 83%

Investigating fishers’ preferences for the design of marine Payments for Environmental Services schemes

Barr

Mourato

2014

Ecological Economics

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“…Nevertheless it considers the lower opportunity cost compared to other activities (Copes, 1989;Ikiara and Odink, 2000;Doulman, 2004). Open access equilibrium, sustainable yield, or overexploitation outcomes related to common-pool resource management are beyond the scope of this analysis.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, according to Copes (1989); Ikiara and Odink (2000);and Doulman (2004), the opportunity cost of fishing for most fishermen is very low, thereby the opportunity cost of other activities is relatively higher than fishing. In this way they rely less on other activities leaving them underdeveloped or for sporadic engagement.…”

Section: Estimationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Firstly, due to the isolation of fishing communities in IFC, more-schooled agents are not necessarily linked to alternative employment opportunities, although the concept of a quality of life effect promoted by educational achievement generally encourages them to obtain higher incomes (Smith, 1979). Secondly, the level of education of a fisherman is important to determine his opportunity cost and opportunities outside the fishing sector, respectively (Ikiara and Odink, 2000). Thereby, informational or educational power results in knowledge for obtaining better selling prices and sales alternatives (Smith, 1979).…”

Section: Estimationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The lack of alternative income sources: The case of ornamental fishing in the Inirida fluvial confluence, Colombian Amazon

Guerrero

Franco-Jaramillo²,

Rosell

2018

EARN

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ABSTRACT:In this paper we present a case study of the impoverished ornamental fishing situation in the Inirida Fluvial Confluence (IFC) in Colombia. For this purpose fieldwork was conducted to obtain primary data from fishermen in the zone. The results indicate that effort applied to create different economic activities have no significant impact on the income of fishermen. Community Agreements for Responsible Fishing (CARF) could be an effective policy for management of the resource; nevertheless, their establishment can bring a loss of livelihoods when there are no clear alternative income sources, and may be incompatible with poverty alleviation objectives. Due to this, alternative sources of income should also be promoted in policy-making. KEYWORDS:Inland fisheries, Natural Resource Management, Rural Development.La falta de fuentes de ingresos alternativos: el caso de la pesca ornamental en la Estrella Fluvial de Inírida, Amazonas Colombiano RESUMEN: En este documento se presenta el caso del empobrecimiento de la pesca ornamental en la Estrella Fluvial de Inirida (EFI) en Colombia. Para esto, se realizó un trabajo de campo con el fin de obtener información primaria de los pescadores de la zona. Los resultados indican que el esfuerzo aplicado a diferentes actividades económicas no tiene relación significativa con los ingresos de los pescadores. Los Acuerdos Comunitarios para la Pesca Responsable podrían ser una política efectiva para el manejo del recurso; sin embargo su establecimiento podría ocasionar una pérdida de medios de subsistencia cuando no hay fuentes certeras de ingresos alternativos, lo que puede ser incompatible con la mitigación de la pobreza. Por esto deberían promoverse también las fuentes alternativas de ingresos en la elaboración de política. PALABRAS CLAVE:Pesquerías continentales, manejo de recursos naturales, desarrollo rural.JEL classification/Clasificación JEL: Q22, I25, J15.

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“…However, the strong economic incentives provided by the prices generated by export markets (Vaccaro et al 2013) suggest this may not be a feasible assumption. Without a force to counterbalance this influence on behavior, through rules and enforcement or provision of alternative livelihood opportunities for freelancer fishers who are not indebted (Ikiara and Odink 1999), it is unlikely that the potential flexibility of the freelancer type fishers will be turned into something beneficial for the ecological sustainability of the fishery.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Microeconomic relationships between and among fishers and traders influence the ability to respond to social-ecological changes in a small-scale fishery

Kininmonth¹,

Crona²,

Bodin³

et al. 2017

E&S

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ABSTRACT. Understanding the cross-scale nature of how natural resource trading links to local extraction patterns remains a topic of great relevance to stewardship and sustainable use of ecological systems. Microeconomic influences on a society's pattern of smallscale natural resources utilization can exacerbate resource overuse, especially under increased population pressure. In many rural communities that are based on a limited diversity of resource industries, quantifying the response of extractors and traders to market and environmental fluctuations is critical to understanding management constraints. We examine the fishing practices of a small lake in Uganda, East Africa, from the dual perspectives of the traders and the fishers using a Bayesian Belief Network approach based on detailed interview surveys. Fishers in this small lake target Nile perch (Lates niloticus) and Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), two fish species of high commercial and food security significance in East Africa. We combined data on financial, social, and ecological systems to understand how aspects of trading quantitatively relate to fish extraction patterns in Lake Nabugabo Uganda. Importantly, we find that the patron-client type relationships generate incentives to extract specific fish, whereas "freelancer" independent fishers are able to create responsive and flexible extraction practices that match market and environmental fluctuations. Management of fishing administered by local Beach Management Units will likely have a higher probability of success when in synchrony with trading relationships and ecological dynamics. We use this study in Uganda to reflect on methodological challenges and opportunities of combining multiple types of data sets for cross-scale analysis of social-ecological system dynamics.

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Fishermen Resistance to Exit Fisheries

Cited by 36 publications

References 6 publications

Investigating fishers’ preferences for the design of marine Payments for Environmental Services schemes

Investigating fishers’ preferences for the design of marine Payments for Environmental Services schemes

The lack of alternative income sources: The case of ornamental fishing in the Inirida fluvial confluence, Colombian Amazon

Microeconomic relationships between and among fishers and traders influence the ability to respond to social-ecological changes in a small-scale fishery

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