Fishing failure and success in the Gulf of Maine: lobster and groundfish management

Acheson, James; Gardner, Rod

doi:10.1186/2212-9790-13-8

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“…Similar patterns of fishers believing that their government is unable to revive the stocks due to flawed science and inept management plans have led to destructive social situations and imperiled fisheries (e.g., the New England groundfish fishery; Acheson and Gardner ).…”

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“…However, considering all Pacific salmon fishery sectors in British Columbia, we are faced with a very heterogeneous collective. Such heterogeneity tends to lead to environments where the goals of one group provide benefit at the expense of other groups and, ultimately, limited agreement on rules (Acheson and Gardner ). Extending similar surveys regarding the handling of bycatch to other user groups would provide a more complete picture.…”

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Perceptions and Actions of Commercial Fishers in Response to Conservation Measures in Canadian Pacific Salmon Fisheries

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In Canadian Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp. commercial fisheries, a policy of selective fishing includes a mandatory release program intended to reduce impacts on vulnerable populations. However, there remain concerns of noncompliance with these regulations, potentially resulting in higher mortality of released fish than is accounted for. Though estimations of postrelease mortality have improved the management of commercial fisheries, the influence of fishers’ behavior is not directly considered by the regulatory framework. Additionally, perceptions of the selective fishing strategy have not been evaluated among fishers, despite knowledge that their acceptance of regulations is critical to successful management outcomes. We conducted 21 semistructured interviews with fishers from the commercial purse seine fleet for Pacific salmon about their perceptions of selective fishing, and found that attitudes towards regulations and managers are a primary determinant of compliance. We also found that greater incentives for selective fishing practices and improved communication among the fishing, management, and scientific communities would likely enhance support for management systems among members of the purse seine fleet.

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Perceptions and Actions of Commercial Fishers in Response to Conservation Measures in Canadian Pacific Salmon Fisheries

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“…Cod and herring represent two striking examples of evolving much smaller mature fish [35,36]. In Australia, New England (USA) and the Canadian maritime provinces, lobster fisheries have thrived under evolutionarily enlightened management [37] that involves, among other things, releasing the very small and the very large lobsters. Ecologically this maintains a stock of breeding individuals, and evolutionarily this reduces the evolution of smaller lobster.…”

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Game theory as a conceptual framework for managing insect pests

Brown

Staňková

2017

Current Opinion in Insect Science

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For over 100 years it has been recognized that insect pests evolve resistance to chemical pesticides. More recently, managers have advocated restrained use of pesticides, crop rotation, the use of multiple pesticides, and pesticide-free sanctuaries as resistance management practices. Game theory provides a conceptual framework for combining the resistance strategies of the insects and the control strategies of the pest manager into a unified conceptual and modelling framework. Game theory can contrast an ecologically enlightened application of pesticides with an evolutionarily enlightened one. In the former case the manager only considers ecological consequences whereas the latter anticipates the evolutionary response of the pests. Broader applications of this game theory approach include anti-biotic resistance, fisheries management and therapy resistance in cancer.

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“…By being able to work collectively and gain access to new resources and new ideas, fishers may be able to overcome two common obstacles. First, the lack of cooperation among fishers often impedes efforts to develop a shared understanding of the cause of social and ecological disturbances or envision, implement, and enforce rules that support sustainable resource management (Wilson et al 2013, Acheson andGardner 2014). The production of bonding capital addresses this problem by making it easier for stakeholders to work together.…”

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Local seafood: rethinking the direct marketing paradigm

Stoll¹,

Dubik²,

Campbell³

2015

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ABSTRACT. Faced with strict regulations, rising operational costs, depleted stocks, and competition from less expensive foreign imports, many fishers are pursuing new ways to market and sell their catch. Direct marketing arrangements can increase the ex-vessel value of seafood and profitability of operations for fishers by circumventing dominant wholesale chains of custody and capturing the premium that customers are willing to pay for local seafood. Our analysis goes beyond a paradigm that understands direct marketing arrangements as solely economic tools to consider how these emerging business configurations create a set of conditions that can result in increased bonding and bridging capital among fishers by incentivizing cooperation, communication, and information production and organization. To build our case, we report on the economic value being generated for fishers in a cooperatively owned and operated direct marketing arrangement in eastern North Carolina. Over the course of 2 years, fishers participating in the Walking Fish communitysupported fishery received 33% more revenue for their catch compared to the average monthly ex-vessel price of finfish and shellfish landed in the surrounding region, and an additional 14% to 18% more per dollar by way of year-end profit sharing. We argue that these economic benefits create an incentive to participate, resulting in cooperation among fishers and increased communication skills that foster bonding and bridging capital that put fishers in a position to identify and respond to challenges that threaten the socialecological resilience of the systems within which they operate. We suggest that "institutional starters" like these can play a critical role in increasing the resilience of social-ecological systems, including fisheries.

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Fishing failure and success in the Gulf of Maine: lobster and groundfish management

Cited by 21 publications

References 39 publications

Perceptions and Actions of Commercial Fishers in Response to Conservation Measures in Canadian Pacific Salmon Fisheries

Perceptions and Actions of Commercial Fishers in Response to Conservation Measures in Canadian Pacific Salmon Fisheries

Game theory as a conceptual framework for managing insect pests

Local seafood: rethinking the direct marketing paradigm

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