Perceptions of governance effectiveness and fisheries restriction options in a climate refugia

McClanahan, Tim R.; Abunge, Caroline

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108585

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“…Previous studies have reported negative attitudes and perceptions by resource users towards management and restriction rules, for example, the establishment of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). Findings from various past studies (Sesabo et al, 2006;Munga et al, 2010;McClanahan and Abunge, 2020) showed that resource users were unwilling to support these management and restriction rules because they felt it would reduce their earnings through reduced catch and fishing ground area. The resource users with positive attitudes were found to have knowledge of the importance of conservation and were involved in the determination of the rules (Munga et al, 2010;McClanahan and Abunge, 2020).…”

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“…Findings from various past studies (Sesabo et al, 2006;Munga et al, 2010;McClanahan and Abunge, 2020) showed that resource users were unwilling to support these management and restriction rules because they felt it would reduce their earnings through reduced catch and fishing ground area. The resource users with positive attitudes were found to have knowledge of the importance of conservation and were involved in the determination of the rules (Munga et al, 2010;McClanahan and Abunge, 2020). In this study, negative attitudes were attributed to unfairness in resource use, where respondents felt they needed to freely utilize the fishing grounds without any restriction.…”

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“…Fisheries governance has increasingly focused on comanagement to mitigate user conflicts in shared resources (Chuenpagdee and Jentoft, 2009;Hauzer et al, 2013;McClanahan & Abunge, 2020). The operationalization of comanagement has paved the way for a varying degree of powersharing and the involvement of artisanal fishers in decisionmaking (Okafor-Yarwood et al, 2020).…”

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Perceptions towards governance of billfish resource use: The lens of artisanal fishers in Kenya

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Multiple fisher groups target billfish species, each with different motivations and experiences, which can influence the effectiveness and sustainability of governance approaches. However, limited studies underscore the perceptions of billfish resource users in defining and implementing governance in the Western Indian Ocean region. We conducted 211 semi-structured qualitative interviews between December 2020 and September 2021, to explore how artisanal fishers perceive the performance and sustainability of governance approaches in Kenya, with a focus on billfish. Our findings show that artisanal fishers have adequate knowledge of fishing laws and regulations, as well as governing institutions and their performance. Further, artisanal fishers had a positive attitude and support for fishing rules, managing institutions, and effectiveness of governance intervention. Specifically, the fishers rated Beach Management Units (BMUs) as highly effective in implementing fisheries rules, indicating the involvement of fishers in co-management of fisheries and tendency for governance success and sustainability. This highlights the need to strengthen and support BMUs as an effective governance tool in the co-management of fisheries. We draw attention to our first-time study of the contribution of artisanal billfish fishers to governance of shared fisheries resources. We show that involvement of resource users promotes a bottom-up approach to the co-management of billfish which compliments the current regional and national efforts that have largely focused on commercial fisheries. Our research adds to the scientific body of knowledge on the importance of perceptions in the formation of natural resource governance interventions at varying scales, especially for transboundary species in data-poor areas.

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Perceptions towards governance of billfish resource use: The lens of artisanal fishers in Kenya

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“…Governance effectiveness in turn may not in itself confer resilience. Rather it is a necessary precondition for achieving resilience through other ecological and social attributes, such as the implementation of protections to sustain stocks, diversity and connectivity; or investments in infrastructure and education (McClanahan & Abunge, 2020). Similarly, social capital and polycentricity provide the necessary structures for knowledge transfer to link awareness about the social‐ecological system and its stressors to adaptive actions; in systems with high learning capacity and wealth and reserves, these structures also enable technology transfer.…”

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Attributes of climate resilience in fisheries: From theory to practice

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“…Despite many efforts, this process of discovery is often not sustained by the finances, skills and social organization of rural communities (Cinner et al., 2019; Cohen et al., 2015; Wells et al., 2007). Additionally, the scale of rural organization and agreement between communities is frequently smaller than the scale required to conserve species and ecosystems (McClanahan & Abunge, 2020a, 2020b; O'Leary et al., 2016).…”

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Views of management effectiveness in tropical reef fisheries

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The effectiveness and outcomes of management are expected to improve when people are informed, engaged and influential in governance and management procedures. The social‐ecological and demographic contexts should, however, influence an individual's perceptions and willingness to engage and access appreciable benefits from management. To evaluate how engagement, procedures and perceived outcomes varied with geographic and social‐ecological context, we asked 1582 heads‐of‐households in 38 fishing villages in four tropical countries to evaluate the benefits of their local fisheries management. Responses to 10 collective action, social performance and management procedure questions fell along three response axes, namely (a) the potential benefits of management, (b) resource status and the reliability of yields and (c) the respondents' ability to influence management decisions. Respondents were most positive about the organization of the existing management systems but more sceptical about their ability to influence decision‐making and subsequent yields and resource status. More frequent negative opinions increased with urbanization (distance to cities and population density), which could arise from challenges of group cohesion, local control and subsequent management efficacy. Consequently, we argue that some common rural, decentralized, or collective fisheries management systems are inappropriate for engaging participation in urban contexts. Across all locations, there is a need to increase participation with management decisions and actions, and to transparently evaluate and respond to resource and yield outcomes. Crafting recommendations appropriate for urban contexts will be increasingly relevant as urbanization and commercialized fisheries expand in tropical countries.

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Perceptions of governance effectiveness and fisheries restriction options in a climate refugia

Cited by 13 publications

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Perceptions towards governance of billfish resource use: The lens of artisanal fishers in Kenya

Perceptions towards governance of billfish resource use: The lens of artisanal fishers in Kenya

Attributes of climate resilience in fisheries: From theory to practice

Views of management effectiveness in tropical reef fisheries

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