Fishers' Organizations and Modes of Co-Management: The Case of San Miguel Bay, Philippines

Sunderlin, W.D.; Gorospe, Maharlina L.G.

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“…A growing academic literature considers the successes and failures of these various initiatives; see., e.g., Christie et al (1994); Pomeroy and Pido (1995); Sunderlin and Gorospe (1997); White et al (2002); and the collections of case studies in White et al (White et al, 1994, pp. 97-98) and Rivera and Newkirk (1997).…”

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“…A number of projects structured along such "co-management" lines have now been implemented in various parts of the country. While I believe that the jury is still very much out regarding their success, a study of one such project (Sunderlin and Gorospe, 1997) concluded that local social stratification (among other things) undermined a rather substantial fisheries co-management initiative in San Miguel Bay. More generally, a recent review of experience to date in the Philippines and elsewhere with community-based marine protected areas (often the centerpiece of co-managed CRM projects) found that such social and economic conditions as poverty and lack of political will hinder implementation of the broader management policies needed for such community-level initiatives to succeed (Christie et al, 2003, p. 23).…”

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Coastal Resource Management and Social Differences in Philippine Fishing Communities

Eder

2005

Hum Ecol

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Class, ethnic, and gender differences among fisherfolk powerfully influence how the benefits and costs of coastal resource management programs are perceived and experienced in Philippine fishing communities. These and other social differences also limit the efficacy of community participation in these programs and hence the role that local communities can be expected to play in fisheries co-management regimes. Greater attention to institutional changes is needed if the management potential of such regimes is to be realized.

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Coastal Resource Management and Social Differences in Philippine Fishing Communities

Eder

2005

Hum Ecol

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“…However, overfishing is a major problem in San Miguel Bay Sunderlin and Gorospe 1997;Garces and Silvestre 2010). As early as 1980s, several threats to the viability of the fishing industry in the bay such as, but not limited to, biological over-exploitation, economic overfishing, and the competition between the different fishing sectors had been identified (Mines et al 1986).…”

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“…banning of commercial trawlers from municipal waters, to minimize the problem on overfishing, but the result of the study of Bundy (2004) showed that management policy of banning and phasing out trawling was not the optimal management strategy for the bay. Because of the recurring problem in the bay, there has been an observed increase in the number of fishers' organizations with a purpose to assure that the supply of the fish can be safeguarded through improve management (Sunderlin and Gorospe 1997), such as the San Miguel Bay Management Council (SMBMC) which was established in 1993 but ceased to exist by 1996 (Bundy 2004), and in 1996, the Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management Councils (FARMCs) were formed as per Executive Order No. 240 which serves as the recommendatory bodies in fisheries matters.…”

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Reproductive Biological Performance of Otolithes ruber (Bloch and Schneider 1801) in San Miguel Bay, Philippines

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Baltar³

2020

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The tigertooth croaker, Otolithes ruber (Bloch and Schneider 1801), was studied to determine its reproductive biology characteristics for 34 months from March 2015 to November 2017. A total of 7,977 individuals were sampled and the measured total lengths (TL) ranged from 8.1 cm to 32.1 cm (16.70 ± 2.53 cm ) and 10.0 cm to 33.5 cm (17.95 ± 2.95 cm) for male and female, respectively. The length-weight relationship can be summarized as W = 0.00521 L3.18 and W = 0.00837 L3.01 for female and male, respectively. The length at first maturity of this species was determined to be 13.95 cm, which is smaller compared to other studies. The overall sex ratio of this species was 1:0.8, with males dominating the female sex (P < 0.05, X2 = 64.3). In addition, synchronized development of male and female gonads was observed. It was also verified that mature individuals were present all throughout the study period indicating that this species spawn continuously and the presence of juveniles during the sampling period indicated continuous recruitment. Mean monthly GSIs indicate July to November as the main spawning season of this species. The in-site occurrence of mature and juvenile stocks in the bay further implicates that San Miguel Bay is a nursery ground for this species. The fecundity varied between 3,420 to 422,100 with an average fecundity of 86,142 eggs. Lastly, the spawning potential ratio is still above the limit reference point (SPR = 0.36), indicating that the stock can still replenish their biomass.

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“…Despite the efforts of many governments, conflicts between small-scale and industrial fishers continue. In circumstances where the fisheries management sector is chronically suffering from under-funding, law enforcement for policing and apprehension of industrial fisheries is often compromised due to limited human resources and equipment (Sunderlin and Gorospe 1997).…”

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“Losing at Sea, Winning on Land”: A Case Study of Philippine Small-Scale and Industrial Fisher Resource Competition

Segi

2014

Society & Natural Resources

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In Southeast Asia, resource competition causes conflicts between small-scale and industrial fishers. This article focuses on interactions between small-scale and industrial fishers and the power dynamics that are expressed through their behaviors. Taking a Philippine fishing village as a case, this article shows that even under conditions of severe resource competition and in a context of antagonistic relationships, small-scale fishers may choose, as a survival strategy, to collaborate with illegal industrial fishers. It demonstrates that accounting for power differentiations and dynamics among actors is key to understanding this seemingly contradictory collaboration, one that will likely result, over the long run, in negative consequences for the sustainability of small-scale fishers' livelihoods. In order to effectively control industrial fishers and mitigate conflict with small-scale fishers, better understanding of social-economic and sociopolitical relations is required.Fisheries in Southeast Asia feature severe resource competition over less exploited frontier areas among industrial fisheries, and this underwrites conflicts with smallscale fishers all over the region (Butcher 2004). Controlling the fishing activities of these sectors to reduce competition over often already depleted resources is one of the major challenges for the region's fisheries managers and conservationists (Siar 2003;Eder 2005;Stobutzki, Silvestre, and Garces 2006). In general, industrial fisheries harvest high quantities of marine resources by employing larger vessels with technologically more advanced devices and gear, while small-scale fisheries harvest lower quantities with simpler boats and gear. With a clear difference in fishing capacity, this poses great concern among small-scale fishers for the present and

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Fishers' Organizations and Modes of Co-Management: The Case of San Miguel Bay, Philippines

Cited by 20 publications

References 6 publications

Coastal Resource Management and Social Differences in Philippine Fishing Communities

Coastal Resource Management and Social Differences in Philippine Fishing Communities

Reproductive Biological Performance of Otolithes ruber (Bloch and Schneider 1801) in San Miguel Bay, Philippines

“Losing at Sea, Winning on Land”: A Case Study of Philippine Small-Scale and Industrial Fisher Resource Competition

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