Resilience in the English Small-Scale Fishery

Korda, Rebecca; Gray, Tim; Stead, Selina M.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-54245-0

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“…As such, they hold promise in the context of the wider transformation required to accomplish the SDGs and sustainability (Cajaiba-Santana 2014;Olsson and Galaz 2012). Additionally, we argue that the presented market-based innovations once again demonstrate the resilience of SSF and their long-term viability (Nayak and Berkes 2019;Pascual-Fernandez et al 2020;Korda et al 2021).…”

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Sustainable small-scale fisheries markets in the Mediterranean: weaknesses and opportunities

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Maritime Studies

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Improved access to markets by small-scale fisheries (SSF), as called by Sustainable Development Goal 14b and other global and Mediterranean policy documents, is impeded by the existing organisation of value chains and market structures, which are typically antagonistic to the nature of SSF. This article analyses the markets in the Mediterranean to map the drivers and feedback loops that keep fisheries in an unsustainable trajectory and reviews the key innovations in support of a socially, economically and environmentally sustainable small-scale fishing sector. We show how the current market is dominated by lack of product traceability and underappreciation of the inherent value of SSF products (e.g. local production, freshness, season dependence, quantitatively and culinary varied nature). In addition, due to a lack of organisation and the capacity to act, small-scale fishers are poised to have little to no influence over the price. In what we conceptualise as a response to the negative effects of existing market structures, we identify and classify initiatives that add value to SSF products, but not exclusively. These are the shortening of the value chain, innovation in the distribution channel, diversification in the type of product offered, promotion and education regarding SSF products, label and brand development and the empowerment of SSF communities through improved leadership, ownership, cooperation and coordination. We provide examples of these activities and propose the key types of intervention at various levels of governance to accelerate and capitalise on them in order to accomplish policy goals and achieve a better status of both the oceans and the fishers.

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Sustainable small-scale fisheries markets in the Mediterranean: weaknesses and opportunities

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“…Inadequate quota is held to be the result of an unjust distribution whereby the large-scale sector obtained 97% of the national quota and the SSF obtained only 3% [48] (Anbleyth-Evans and Williams 2018; [49] NEF 2018; [1] Gray et al, 2011). Several fishers view the refusal by the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs to allocate more quota to the inshore sector as evidence that it wants to close the SSF down (quoted in [28] Korda et al, 2021: 73).…”

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“…With regard to the materials used in this paper, there are three main sources of information: the peer-reviewed literature; the grey literature; and interviews carried out for the authors' book, Resilience in the English Small-Scale Fishery: Small Fry but Big Issue [28] ( Korda et al, 2021). Section 2.3 of that book describes in detail how the interviewees were selected and what themes were chosen for the interview questions.…”

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Democracy and Human Rights in the Management of Small-Scale Fisheries in England

2023

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Small-scale fisheries (SSF) in England face several challenges to their viability. We argue that the source of these challenges can be traced to the more dominant large-scale fisheries (LSF) sector which has more influence than SSF over government policies. A recent attempt to mitigate the impact of these challenges has been made by the Future of Inshore Fisheries initiative whose main prescription is co-management, i.e., giving SSF a participatory role with the government and LSF in the decision-making in English fisheries management. Co-management is a form of democracy and it may help the SSF to deal with their problems. However, in our view, the English SSF also require an acknowledgement of their human rights to a fair quota and protected access to productive inshore waters. In making this case, we draw on normative arguments to assert that human rights are prior to democratic processes. Our conclusion is that both democratic decision-making and human rights principles are needed to secure the English SSF from the real threat of extinction.

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“…Resilience theory divides strategies for dealing with adversity into three modes: passive; adaptive; and transformative [28]. Passive or inactive resilients are people who resignedly accept their disadvantaged circumstances as a given and carry on as before, ignoring the warning signs of an unsustainable future.…”

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Proposed Solutions to the Problems of the Lake Chad Fisheries: Resilience Lessons for Africa?

Okeke‐Ogbuafor

Gray

Ani

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Fishing communities in Lake Chad are experiencing humanitarian crises—more than five million people in the region are hungry and malnourished—and fishers are in dire need of improved fisheries management policies. Understanding the fishers’ resilience, and how they perceive their fisheries policies, could provide an opportunity for governments and fisheries managers to refine their policies. The present study, which is based on 38 semi-structured interviews carried out between January and April 2022 on the Nigerian shores of Lake Chad, breaks new ground, firstly by seeking to understand the issues raised by declining fish stocks in Lake Chad from the viewpoints of fishers themselves; and secondly by making use of resilience theory to interpret the fishers’ responses to their situation. Our findings are that the fishers have a surer grasp of the most effective resilience strategies available to them than external bodies; and that the fishers’ adaptive resilience and local knowledge provide a framework for developing smarter fisheries management policies for Lake Chad. This study provides evidence to support recommendations for Africa’s supranational, national and local governments to invest in, and make use of, the fisheries research on the ground to address the problems facing its fisheries, rather than experimenting with seemingly random ideas from across the globe. The Lake Chad fisheries crisis is an extreme case demonstrating the harmful effects of external influences from which the fisheries of other African countries can learn lessons.

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Resilience in the English Small-Scale Fishery

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Sustainable small-scale fisheries markets in the Mediterranean: weaknesses and opportunities

Sustainable small-scale fisheries markets in the Mediterranean: weaknesses and opportunities

Democracy and Human Rights in the Management of Small-Scale Fisheries in England

Proposed Solutions to the Problems of the Lake Chad Fisheries: Resilience Lessons for Africa?

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