Hog Daddy and the Walls of Steel: Catch Shares and Ecosystem Change in the New England Groundfishery

Brewer, Jennifer F.

doi:10.1080/08941920.2014.905811

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“…In the United Kingdom, the Shetland Islands case provides a European example of how community-based organizations secured quotas for local harvesters to ensure that the resource remained in the hands of local harvesters and local communities (Crean 1999;Goodlad 2000). The recent debate in the United States around "catch shares" points to the potential for a new and expanded role for community use rights in this country and beyond, because they allow fish resources to be allocated to a wide range of stakeholders including cooperatives and community groups (National Panel on the Community Dimensions of Fisheries Catch Share Programmes [NPCD] 2011; Grimm et al 2012;Macinko 2013;Brewer 2014;McCay et al 2013;Severance 2014). …”

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Making Space for Community Use Rights: Insights From “Community Economies” in Newfoundland and Labrador

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2015

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Making Space for Community Use Rights: Insights From “Community Economies” in Newfoundland and Labrador

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2015

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“…Although studies have demonstrated that the benefits from initial quota allocations to harvesters often generate the dilemma of high costs for new entrants (Wiber 2000, Mansfield 2004, Bromley 2008, Pinkerton and Edwards 2009, Carothers and Chambers 2012, Brewer 2014, Pinkerton and Davis 2015, limited license fisheries are not immune to this dilemma. The transferability of licenses, though often intended to facilitate intergenerational transfers, has opened markets for lobster licenses, and controlling agreements have allowed some individuals and companies to lease out licenses.…”

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Recommendations for full-spectrum sustainability in Canadian lobster integrated management plans based on a socioeconomic analysis of Barrington, Nova Scotia

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2018

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Fisheries and Oceans Canada has developed integrated fisheries management plans to promote a more holistic approach to fisheries management. Yet these management plans maintain an emphasis on the ecological domains, without sufficient attention to socioeconomic and institutional domains of management. In this study, I use a case study from Barrington, Nova Scotia, and dimensions from the Canadian Fisheries Research Network Comprehensive Sustainability Framework to demonstrate the importance of socioeconomic and institutional indicators to contribute to fisheries management plans. An analysis of survey data of captains and lobster fishing households revealed decreased access to multiple species fishing strategies, partially because of large inequities in access to individual fishing quotas. Harvesters with a high dependence on lobster as the primary source of income had lower incomes, and higher income sensitivity to the financial crisis of 2008. New strategies have emerged to cope with reduced access to multiple species, and high-yield lobster fishing is often the best available strategy to pay bills and meet costs when lobster prices are low. Outcomes for the region were split, with an equal number of harvesters reporting recent years as the best or worst year they experienced in fishing. Given a history of changing regulations and reduced options to remain flexible when economic and ecological conditions change, harvesters were pessimistic about their future access, and their children's future access, to fisheries. Harvesters faced livelihood challenges caused by cumulative effects of multiple regulatory and ecological events. I demonstrate how the Canadian Fisheries Research Network Comprehensive Sustainability Framework can guide researchers, managers, and fishing organizations to understand the current management objectives that are not being met, and to develop research priorities, methods, protocols, and personnel to meet a broader spectrum of objectives.

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“…This in turn provides incentives for those who have exclusive access to invest in the long-term sustainability of resources (Grafton et al 2006, Costello et al 2008, provided of course that systems are in place to exclude outsiders and prevent overfishing by free-riders (Basurto and Ostrom 2009). Rights-based approaches have, however, also been criticized by some for providing inadequate incentives for the conservation of certain species or areas, while neglecting impacts on the broader ecosystem (Smith et al 2009, Gibbs 2010, Brewer 2014, Pinkerton 2017.…”

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Human dimensions of ecosystem-based management: Lessons in managing trade-offs from the Northern Shrimp Fishery in Northern Peninsula, Newfoundland

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Fisheries can have significant impacts on the structure and functions of marine ecosystems, including impacts on habitats and non-target species. As a result, management agencies face growing calls to account for the ecosystem impacts of fishing, while navigating the political and economic interests of diverse stakeholders. This paper assesses the impacts of two specific factors on the attitudes and well-being of shrimp fishers in the context of a selective fisheries closure designed to protect crabs in the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada: (1) the species portfolios of fishers; and (2) democratic rulemaking. The results of this analysis suggest that shrimp fishers were more likely to support selective closures for the shrimp fishery if they also fished for crab, and felt they had an influence on the management of the fishery. The results further indicate that species portfolio diversification had a positive and statistically significant impact on the subjective economic well-being of fishers. This study contributes to an emerging literature on the human dimensions of ecosystem-based fisheries management, highlighting opportunities to address trade-offs in fisheries through species diversification and by enhancing the role and influence of fishers in management processes.

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Hog Daddy and the Walls of Steel: Catch Shares and Ecosystem Change in the New England Groundfishery

Cited by 11 publications

References 35 publications

Making Space for Community Use Rights: Insights From “Community Economies” in Newfoundland and Labrador

Making Space for Community Use Rights: Insights From “Community Economies” in Newfoundland and Labrador

Recommendations for full-spectrum sustainability in Canadian lobster integrated management plans based on a socioeconomic analysis of Barrington, Nova Scotia

Human dimensions of ecosystem-based management: Lessons in managing trade-offs from the Northern Shrimp Fishery in Northern Peninsula, Newfoundland

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