A continuous involvement of stakeholders promotes the ecosystem approach to fisheries in the 8-fjords area on the Swedish west coast

Bryhn, Andreas C.; Lundström, Karl; Johansson, Amelie; Stabo, Henrik Ragnarsson; Svedäng, Henrik

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“…Also, our results give a possibility to assess the present local population status (c.f. Bartolino et al, 2012;Bryhn et al, 2017). The observed maximal egg densities, including both years, varied between 0.18 and 5.3 stage I-II cod eggs m À2 between studied areas (Table 4).…”

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confidence: 91%

“…These results are highly important for an ecosystem fisheries management (c.f. Long et al, 2015;Bryhn et al, 2017) that needs to take the presence of local spawning into account in future planning. However, patterns of the genetic structure are difficult to disentangle, as Atlantic cod in the North Sea-Skagerrak-Kattegat area seem to be a mixture of co-existing resident local forms, completing their entire life cycle in fjords or sheltered areas, and oceanic populations (Knutsen et al, 2011(Knutsen et al, , 2018Barth et al, 2017).…”

Section: Evidence Of Local Cod Spawning On the Swedish Skagerrak Coastmentioning

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Local cod (Gadus morhua) revealed by egg surveys and population genetic analysis after longstanding depletion on the Swedish Skagerrak coast

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ICES Journal of Marine Science

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Dramatic and persistent reductions in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) are common in many coastal areas. While offshore cod stocks still were abundant and productive, the Swedish west coast showed signs of diminishing adult cod abundance at the beginning of the 1980s, where the local cod component was considered to be extirpated. To survey the present cod spawning activity and stock composition, we initiated egg trawling over two consecutive years (203 hauls in total) in combination with population genetic analyses (425 individually genotyped eggs). Here, we provide evidence of cod spawning at the Swedish Skagerrak coast, suggesting recolonization or that local cod has recovered from a nearly depleted state. Early stage eggs were found inside fjords too far to have been transported by oceanic drift from offshore spawning areas. The cod eggs were genetically similar in early to late life-stages and cluster mainly with the local adult cod, indicating that eggs and adults belong to the same genetic unit. The cod eggs were genetically differentiated from adult North Sea cod, and, to a lesser degree, also from the Kattegat and Öresund cod, i.e. indicating a possible recovery of local coastal stock. The patterns of the genetic structure in the inshore areas are, however, difficult to fully disentangle, as Atlantic cod in the North Sea-Skagerrak area seem to be a mixture of co-existing forms: local cod completing their entire life cycle in fjords and sheltered areas, and oceanic populations showing homing behaviours. The egg abundances are considerably lower compared with what is found in similar studies along the Norwegian Skagerrak coast. Nevertheless, the discovery of locally spawning cod along the Swedish west coast—although at low biomasses—is an encouraging finding that highlights the needs for endurance in protective measures and of detailed surveys to secure intraspecific biodiversity and ecosystem services.

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Section: Evidence Of Local Cod Spawning On the Swedish Skagerrak Coastmentioning

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Local cod (Gadus morhua) revealed by egg surveys and population genetic analysis after longstanding depletion on the Swedish Skagerrak coast

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“…Named after Sweden's only fjord system and located 50 km north of Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg, the area is widely used for recreation by Swedes from all over the country and from Norway. Faced with environmental problems related to nutrient effluents from the mainland and immiseration of the local cod stock due to decades of overfishing (Baden et al, 2012), a network of local stakeholders has worked since 1999 with cross-municipal coastal management (Bryhn et al, 2017). These circumstances formed a good basis for a case study involving both a conventional monetary valuation and a DV: the monetary valuation, a so-called stated preference survey, needed data for a 'realistic policy scenario' (Johnston et al, 2017;Östberg et al, 2012) and the DV needed engaged, 'information rich' participants likely to hold a range of | 387 different viewpoints on their local community (Baker et al, 2006).…”

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What does value pluralism mean in practice? An empirical demonstration from a deliberative valuation

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The intensified call for value pluralism within research on valuation in environmental decision‐making responds to the recognition that neoclassical economic approaches to environmental valuation do not sufficiently account for important aspects of human–nature relations. However, few studies have explored how value plurality actually plays out in social deliberative reasoning and decision‐making in practice, and these studies have mostly been deductive and quantitative. In his essay ‘Are choices trade‐offs?’ Alan Holland (2002) goes to the heart of differences in conceptions of value and rationality between neoclassical and ecological economics. These conceptions differ in terms of whether values are seen as commensurable or incommensurable, whether people's choices amount to willing exchanges of gains and losses between different values and whether unwillingness to trade values off for net gain is irrational. Addressing Holland's question, we present a quasi‐experimental study on deliberative valuation of marine issues on the Swedish west coast, where we considered how local citizens and politicians approached values in their reasoning and choice‐making. Mixing quantitative and qualitative empirical material, we used an abductive analytical approach, iterating between data and theory to link our observations and interpretations to prevalent understandings of value, valuation and deliberation in the literature. The results demonstrate the relevance of value pluralism for environmental policy by showing the prevalence of preference uncertainty and intrapersonal value conflicts in participants' reasoning and interaction. Value conflicts played out as the inability to achieve multiple transcendental values that participants aspired to, including conflicts between social and environmental goals. Rather than attempting to commensurate different value dimensions, participants sought to avoid moral conflicts, showed emotional anguish when value conflicts came to the fore and tried to bridge conflicting aspirations and experiences through inclusive reason‐giving and compromise. Thus, choices were not resolved through rational trade‐offs, supporting Holland's claim and challenging the neoclassical trade‐off model of choice. Incommensurability appeared as deliberate positions grounded in participants' experiences rather than as irrationality. Legitimately resolving value conflicts thus demands reason‐sensitive means for deciding upon the sacrifices to be made and supporting public participation in environmental decision‐making in ways that reveal peoples' actual moral considerations. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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“…Since 2017, HaV has been developing plans for an ecosystem-based approach for the Swedish fisheries that will incorporate ecological, economic and social dimensions. Furthermore, local coastal fishers' have been calling for the introduction of co-management regimes based on successful examples experienced in a handful of localities on the Swedish coast (see Bryhn et al 2017). All these ideas are currently still under discussion at national levels of fisheries management in Sweden.…”

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Swimming upstream: community economies for a different coastal rural development in Sweden

2019

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The EU Blue Growth agenda is being implemented at a time when European coastal fisheries and traditional fishing communities are struggling to survive or have already vanished from areas where they used to flourish. Driven by the strong conviction that current disadvantaged and vulnerable coastal fishers still have a central role to play in rural development, local level initiatives are calling for a different future for this fishery sector. The participants in these initiatives insist that coastal fisheries should not be driven to extinction, despite their low economic profitability and thus minimal contribution to economic growth compared to large-scale enterprises. Through participatory observation and informal interviews, we investigate one of these local level initiatives on the Swedish Baltic Sea coast and analyse how it aligns with a community economies' project based on a different economic perspective. We describe first the primary activities carried out by the initiative and follow by an examination on what drove it, how it has been maintained, and how it might spread. We conclude on the potentials of the community economies framework and project to advance a Blue degrowth agenda based on difference and not necessarily less.

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A continuous involvement of stakeholders promotes the ecosystem approach to fisheries in the 8-fjords area on the Swedish west coast

Cited by 12 publications

References 79 publications

Local cod (Gadus morhua) revealed by egg surveys and population genetic analysis after longstanding depletion on the Swedish Skagerrak coast

Local cod (Gadus morhua) revealed by egg surveys and population genetic analysis after longstanding depletion on the Swedish Skagerrak coast

What does value pluralism mean in practice? An empirical demonstration from a deliberative valuation

Swimming upstream: community economies for a different coastal rural development in Sweden

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