The Fishing Lifecourse: Exploring the Importance of Social Contexts, Capitals and (More Than) Fishing Identities

Gustavsson, Madeleine; Riley, Mark

doi:10.1111/soru.12181

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“…Smallscale fishers in Chile are adapting and responding to socio-cultural change in ways similar to those documented elsewhere [21], such as through income diversification towards construction and tourism. Attitudes and behaviours among fishers also appear to have shifted with development in Chile, favouring education, professions of higher status and greater economic security, and reduced pressure on younger generations to fish, mirroring changes in developed country fishing contexts (e.g., [14][15][16].…”

Section: Explaining Limited Recruitment and Retentionmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…What is clear from recent studies is that recruitment and exit from fishing is not a simple phenomenon with single causes and interpretations [20], nor are the effects of socio-cultural change homogenous across age classes and community members [21].…”

Section: Social Change and Fishers: Aging Recruitment And Alternatimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This may be due to the fact that Chile is not as fully developed economically, and so the problems of recruitment are only beginning to show. What is clear from the results of this and other studies, is that to understand changes in fishing and fisher behaviour, it is important to at-tend to the broader socio-cultural context in which fishing occurs, as well as the dynamics within fishing communities and families [15,20,21].…”

Section: Explaining Limited Recruitment and Retentionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Critically, however, these potential opportunities will likely depend on continued recruitment and engagement into fishing, as attaining formal education and technical capacity may not replace local ecological knowledge and social cooperative networks if they are lost. Moreover, as Gustavsson and Riley [21] reveal, new entrants without existing social and cultural capital may face additional barriers to entry, making continued engagement of youth from fishing families especially important.…”

Section: Implications For Marine Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gone fishing? Intergenerational cultural shifts can undermine common property co-managed fisheries

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Conventional common property thinking assumes that a central goal of management is to maintain social-ecological systems in a healthy and resilient state, including maintaining the ability of communities to harvest across time and generations. Little research has been done, however, on how common property systems are affected by demographic shifts, the social status of emerging livelihoods, and the employment aspirations of users for their offspring. An empirical case study from Chile (well known for its common property fisheries) suggests that major socio-cultural shifts are now occurring, with a lack of entry by new fishers and an aging population of existing ones. These types of social and cultural changes are increasingly common through globalization and worldwide economic development, and pose significant policy challenges across broad classes of common property systems. The Chilean case reveals that community adaptive capacity can come at the expense of social-ecological common property systems, and highlights the need to consider the broader context of 'slow' social variables.

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Section: Explaining Limited Recruitment and Retentionmentioning

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Section: Social Change and Fishers: Aging Recruitment And Alternatimentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Explaining Limited Recruitment and Retentionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Implications For Marine Managementmentioning

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“…Interrelated to this, more research is needed on how to engage fishers in (co)education in innovation as well as in response to environmental change such as climate change [19]. As a final comment, future research could also consider how changes to the 'rules of the game' can result in re-shaping the fishing habitus and what it means to be a good fisher.…”

Section: Cultural (Un)sustainability? and Need For Future Researchmentioning

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Examining the ‘cultural sustainability’ of two different ways of governing fishing practices

Gustavsson¹

2018

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Research has suggested there is a need for an increased attention to the socio-cultural lifeworlds of fishers and fisheries and its importance for fisheries management. An emerging response to this call has been to examine the social and cultural contexts of 'good fishing' -an idea which, drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, has sought to move the discussion beyond simply the economic aspects of fishing to also understand the importance of other forms of capital. Utilising these concepts together with the conceptual idea of 'knowledge cultures', the following paper examines the 'cultural sustainability' of different ways of governing fishing practices -in particular Marine Conservation Zones and voluntary lobster v-notching using a case study approach to the small-scale fishery of Llŷn peninsula, North Wales (UK). The paper observes that those approaches that allow fishers to demonstrate skills and recognises the temporal contingency of fishing lives can be considered more culturally sustainable than others. This paper also notes that culturally acceptable changes to fishing practices can be supported by fishing regulations and, the paper suggests, such innovations are more likely to be taken up by fishers in their everyday fishing practices. The paper recommends that policies seeking to alter fishing practices consider: i) the importance fishers hold in demonstrating their skills; ii)how social relations are as important as economic aspects to fishers long-term uptake of new practices; and iii)the past and the future (such as if a successor is present) holds significance for fishers actions in the present.

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Imagining the Coast: A Mixed Methods Approach to Elicit Perceptions and Conflicts on the West Coast of Ireland

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Flannery²,

Murtagh³

2021

Researching People and the Sea

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This chapter critically explores the challenges and opportunities of adopting a mixed methods approach to coastal change. We reflect on our experiences of a study that involved a tourist survey and participantled, photo elicitation focus groups with two coastal communities in Ireland. The survey found that tourists display complex perceptions of coastal landscapes that resonate with local representations as narrated by focus group participants. Despite the contrasting epistemological roots underpinning the different methods adopted, the use of mixed methods offered a fruitful way to understand the nature of coastal change. There are, however, significant challenges when undertaking mixed methods research, relating to the complexity of data integration and balancing different methodological strands, that need to be critically evaluated prior to and during any study.

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The Fishing Lifecourse: Exploring the Importance of Social Contexts, Capitals and (More Than) Fishing Identities

Cited by 18 publications

References 54 publications

Gone fishing? Intergenerational cultural shifts can undermine common property co-managed fisheries

Gone fishing? Intergenerational cultural shifts can undermine common property co-managed fisheries

Examining the ‘cultural sustainability’ of two different ways of governing fishing practices

Imagining the Coast: A Mixed Methods Approach to Elicit Perceptions and Conflicts on the West Coast of Ireland

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