An evaluation of information sharing schemes to identify what motivates fishers to share catch information

Calderwood, Julia; Marshall, C. Tara; Haflinger, Karl; Alfaro‐Shigueto, Joanna; Mangel, Jeffrey C.; Reid, David G.

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“…Researchers from the University of Aberdeen drove the development of BATmap, a catch sharing platform for use by Scottish fishers to assist in avoiding unwanted catches, while working together with an Alaskan IT developer and the fishing industry (Marshall et al 2021 ). A user-centred, co-design process was again used so that the software would be easy and intuitive to use, while reflecting fisher’s tolerance for sharing information and meet their needs for data security (Calderwood et al 2021b ). A pilot phase was then conducted with 13 vessels, operating in ICES area 6a (the west coast of Scotland), testing how well the app functioned in terms of assisting vessels to avoid unwanted catches (Marshall et al 2021 ).…”

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Smartphone application use in commercial wild capture fisheries

Calderwood

2022

Rev Fish Biol Fisheries

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Smartphones are increasingly the most common type of mobile phone used throughout the world, offering users the ability to browse the internet and access mobile applications. Smartphones are also often equipped with high definition digital cameras, accelerometers, gyroscopes, and GPS. They can, therefore, facilitate the collection and dissemination of data, often through purpose designed applications (apps). As a result, numerous apps have been developed for use in wild capture fisheries. These apps have been designed for a number of purposes including for data collection, providing information to fishers, being linked to value chains and post-harvest practices and for uses linked to employment, legislation and safety. These apps are used across the world from large commercialized fisheries to small scale fisheries. In the latter, apps have the potential to bridge a technology gap, possibly replicating the functions of multiple pieces of hardware such as are used on larger vessels. This paper presents results from a narrative literature review to provide a synthesis of smart phone apps currently available for use by commercial fishers. 84 smartphone apps were identified as being currently available for use in commercial wild capture fisheries throughout the world. Smartphone apps were available for a number of uses but they were predominantly used for data collection and reporting. While this review provides an important overview of the extent of app use in commercial wild capture fisheries there remains potential for future work to improve understanding of how beneficial app use is and what it is that encourages app use and determines an app as being ‘successful’.

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Smartphone application use in commercial wild capture fisheries

Calderwood

2022

Rev Fish Biol Fisheries

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“…The lack of consideration of fishers' needs and voice can undermine support of constituents and produce opposition, potentially undermining the long-term success of sustainability initiatives. Restoring a climate of trust requires understanding the needs, concerns, and motivations of the groups of fishers (Calderwood et al, 2021). The conflicts analyzed in this paper emphasize the critical importance of fishers' motivation and readiness to adapt to bycatch reduction policies.…”

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“…The fishers interviewed also mentioned their apprehension of the socio-economic impact of regulations such as the reduction of sole quotas in the Bay of Biscay, sole being one of the main targets of the gillnetters. Hence the fishers are facing a conflict of interest, acknowledging the value of their integration in bycatch mitigation projects, but having limited incentives to share catch information, fearing that their participation may play against them (Calderwood et al, 2021). The research on change management models for fisheries has highlighted the impact of intrinsic motivation factors concerns on the resistance to change fishing practices, the most impactful factors being the concerns that change will be costly and painful, perceived lack of incentives to offset any catch loss, perceived loss of cover over the fishing operations and uncertainty about the future, including how fishers may be affected by change.…”

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“…The main policy options to improve the selectivity of the fisheries operations are the implementation of technical measures, and the adjustment of when and where the fishing effort takes place (Calderwood et al, 2021), such as through space-time closure of fisheries, or through the closure of an area in a fishery to one or more gears for a temporary period when a bycatch threshold is reached (Dunn et al, 2010). Technical measures entail the deployment of repellents on other vessels than the pelagic trawls and the change of fishing practices.…”

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Integrating fishers’ knowledge contributions in Marine Science to tackle bycatch in the Bay of Biscay

Cazé¹,

Réveillas²,

Danto³

et al. 2022

Front. Mar. Sci.

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The issue of bycatch is raising considerable political, mediatic and scientific attention. Bycatch is one of the main causes of at-sea mortality for small cetacean species and for seabirds. Scientists are raising alerts regarding the potential effects on the structure of the ecosystem, increasingly aiming for research-action. Decision-makers are facing a political trade-off, with increasing pressure from the European Commission and international nongovernmental organizations to implement mitigation measures such as space-time closure of the fisheries, which could present a risk of altering the well-being of the fishing industry in the short-term. The process of co-creation of knowledge on bycatch is key to understand better the fishers-species interactions and to develop regulations that are adapted to local specificities, towards an adaptive and inclusive socio-ecosystem-based management of the fisheries. But the knowledge co-creation process is hindered by tensions between the interests of stakeholders, the climate of mistrust, dense media coverage and power asymmetries between actors. In parallel, the fast rate of biodiversity degradation is calling for the rapid development of regulations. Understanding the complex system dynamics highlighted by these conflicts requires an analysis of the socio-political dimension of the interactions between fisheries and marine biodiversity. Based on a series of ethnographic interviews with the different stakeholders involved in the bycatch mitigation projects in the Bay of Biscay, this paper explores how co-creating knowledge through conflict and collaboration between researchers and fishers can generate collective learning for bycatch mitigation policies. We adopt an epistemological approach, with the objective to promote transparency in the exchange between researchers and fishers and to inform decision-making at various scales of governance. We argue that co-creation of knowledge on bycatch should not aim for consensus. We conclude that acknowledging the presence of conflicts between the stakeholders, and understanding their roots and their impact on the co-design process can allow identifying factors of path-dependency hindering the adaptive capacity of institutions. Moreover, we highlight the key role of the fishers’ representative bodies in knowledge co-creation, and the importance to improve our understanding of fishers’ perception of their political representation.

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“…A key component of the project is the participation of fishers in the pilot program to ascertain the feasibility of the DSS tool. There is evidence suggesting that participation can increase in science-industry collaborations if results are perceived to be positive for industry (Calderwood et al, 2021).…”

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Capturing big fisheries data: Integrating fishers’ knowledge in a web-based decision support tool

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There is increasing interest in utilizing fishers’ knowledge to better understand the marine environment, given the spatial extent and temporal resolution of fishing vessel operations. Furthermore, fishers’ knowledge is part of the best available information needed for sustainable harvesting of stocks, marine spatial planning and large-scale monitoring of fishing activity. However, there are difficulties with integrating such information into advisory processes. Data is often not systematically collected in a structured manner and there are issues around sharing of information within the industry, and between industry and research partners. Decision support systems for fishing planning and routing can integrate relevant information in a systematic way, which both incentivizes vessels to share information beneficial to their operations and capture time sensitive big datasets for marine research. The project Fishguider has been developing such a web-based decision support tool since 2019, together with partners in the Norwegian fishing fleet. The objectives of the project are twofold: 1) To provide a tool which provides relevant model and observation data to skippers, thus supporting sustainable fishing activity. 2) To foster bidirectional information flow between research and fishing activity by transfer of salient knowledge (both experiential and data-driven), thereby supporting knowledge creation for research and advisory processes. Here we provide a conceptual framework of the tool, along with current status and developments, while outlining specific challenges faced. We also present experiential input from fishers’ regarding what they consider important sources of information when actively fishing, and how this has guided the development of the tool. We also explore potential benefits of utilizing such experiential knowledge generally. Moreover, we detail how such collaborations between industry and research may rapidly produce extensive, structured datasets for research and input into management of stocks. Ultimately, we suggest that such decision support services will motivate fishing vessels to collect and share data, while the available data will foster increased research, improving the decision support tool itself and consequently knowledge of the oceans, its fish stocks and fishing activities.

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An evaluation of information sharing schemes to identify what motivates fishers to share catch information

Cited by 7 publications

References 51 publications

Smartphone application use in commercial wild capture fisheries

Smartphone application use in commercial wild capture fisheries

Integrating fishers’ knowledge contributions in Marine Science to tackle bycatch in the Bay of Biscay

Capturing big fisheries data: Integrating fishers’ knowledge in a web-based decision support tool

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