Territorial Use Rights for Fisheries (TURFs): State of the art and the road ahead

Quynh, Chi Nguyen Thi; Schilizzi, Steven; Hailu, Atakelty; Iftekhar, Sayed

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2016.10.004

Cited by 63 publications

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“…In general, results show increases in food provision, which include biomass, abundance, size, and CPUE of target species in well‐enforced TURFs. These findings are consistent with assessments in other countries with TURF like systems, such as Spain (Molares & Freire, ), Japan (Matsuda et al., ), and those in the Indo‐Pacific (Auriemma et al., ; Nguyen Thi Quynh et al., ). The review shows that enforcement is the key for TURF outcomes to be achieved (Gelcich et al., ; Perez‐Matus et al., ) and that access rights can play an important role in fishers internalizing enforcement rules (Gelcich et al., ).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

“…A number of studies have addressed the implications of assigning TURFs over specific ecosystem services (Auriemma, Byler, Peterson, Yurkanin, & Costello, 2014;Matsuda, Makino, Tomiyama, Gelcich, & Castilla, 2010;Molares & Freire, 2003;Nguyen Thi Quynh, Schilizzi, Hailu, & Iftekhar, 2017). Foremost among these are those that have assessed the potential for TURFs to increase provisioning services (i.e., fishery yields) and/or profits (Molares & Freire, 2003;Rivera, Gelcich, García-Flórez, & Acuña, 2017).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Comanagement of small‐scale fisheries and ecosystem services

Gelcich

Martínez‐Harms

Tapia‐Lewin

et al. 2019

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Marine ecosystem services are in global decline, which requires new transformational changes in governance to cope with multiple anthropogenic stressors. We perform a systematic literature review of the biodiversity and ecosystem services outcomes of a governance transformation toward comanagement through the allocation of territorial user rights to artisanal fisher associations (TURFs) in Chile. We synthesize the implications of more than 25 years of establishing a TURF policy over ecosystem services. Results show TURFs sustain biodiversity and all typologies of ecosystem services when they are well enforced. Research on provisioning services is most prevalent, however cultural services have been gaining traction with studies assessing the role of leadership, sanctions, and social capital in determining TURF outcomes. The results suggest that TURFs can play an important role in creating social and ecological enabling conditions for local stewardship. While this is encouraging, there is a bias toward positive results and few studies address negative consequences of TURFs aimed at identifying constraints for further development. The review shows that there has been a continuous transition toward interdisciplinary social–ecological research. Research on TURFs faced with drivers of global change and uncertainty are urgently needed, in order to anticipate unintended outcomes and adapt accordingly.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comanagement of small‐scale fisheries and ecosystem services

Gelcich

Martínez‐Harms

Tapia‐Lewin

et al. 2019

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“…However, empirical evidence usually focuses separately on either TURFs (Quynh et al. 2017) or no‐take marine protected areas, also known as marine reserves or no‐take zones (NTZs) (Lester et al. 2009).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Catalyzing sustainable fisheries management through behavior change interventions

McDonald

Wilson

Veríssimo

et al. 2020

Conservation Biology

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Small-scale fisheries are an important livelihood and primary protein source for coastal communities in many of the poorest regions in the world, yet many are overfished and thus require effective and scalable management solutions. Positive ecological and socioeconomic responses to management typically lag behind immediate costs borne by fishers from fishing pressure reductions necessary for fisheries recovery. These shortterm costs challenge the long-term success of these interventions. However, social marketing may increase perceptions of management benefits before ecological and socioeconomic benefits are fully realized, driving new social norms and ultimately long-term sustainable behavior change. By conducting underwater visual surveys to quantify ecological conditions and by conducting household surveys with community members to quantify their perceptions of management support and socioeconomic conditions, we assessed the impact of a standardized small-scale fisheries management intervention that was implemented across 41 sites in Brazil, Indonesia, and the Philippines. The intervention combines TURF reserves (community-based territorial use rights for fishing coupled with no-take marine reserves) with locally tailored social-marketing behavior change campaigns. Leveraging data across 22 indicators and 4 survey types, along with data from 3 control sites, we found that ecological and socioeconomic impacts varied and that communities supported the intervention and were already changing their fishing practices. These results suggest that communities were developing new social norms and fishing more sustainably before long-term ecological and socioeconomic benefits of fisheries management materialized.

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“…To maximise efficiency, quotas have been made tradable between individuals. This provides the inefficient fishers with an exit strategy and the more efficient ones with a possibility to expand (Arnason, 2000;Arnason, 1991;Neher, Arnason, & Mollett, 1989;Nguyen, Schilizzi, Hailu, & Iftekhar, 2017).…”

Section: Fisheries Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%