Artisanal fishery in Ecuador. A case study of Manta city and its economic policies to improve competitiveness of the sector

Environmental aspects and management preferences: A case study of small pelagic fisheries in the Crucita parish of the Portoviejo canton

“…The size of the purse-seine vessels, as well as the construction materials and the technology used, show that the Crucita purse-seine fishing fleet is medium-scale, which limits its actions to the exploitation of small pelagic fish in areas not far from the coast, when compared with industrial vessels that exceed 30 m in length that have greater capacities and technical conditions. Previous studies have shown a direct proportional relationship between the modernization of the fleet and the catch potential [ 50 ], which supports the need to update the fishing infrastructure to improve its extractive capacity [ 51 ]. Although the Crucita fishermen argue that the small pelagic fishery carried out by the purse-seine fishing fleet is artisanal, the Ecuadorian authorities, based on the current Fisheries Law, have classified them as an industrial fleet.…”

Nature of property rights and motivation for blue growth: An empirical evidence from the fisheries industry

“…The EU14 and EU13 nations' improved sustainable fisheries development suggests economic growth's remarkable and considerable impact on higher quantiles. The experience of Mexico, as reported by Peñaloza-Talavera et al ( 2022), Ecuador, as reported by Delgado et al (2021), Malaysia, as reported by Soh et al (2021), China, as reported by Kang et al (2023), and Le, as reported by Li et al (2021), provides evidence that increasing economic growth will increase the sustainability of fisheries. Therefore, we advocate for increasing economic performance in nations that produce fish, particularly in the developed EU14 nations with significant fisheries output.…”

“…In Mexico, Peñaloza‐Talavera et al (2022) looked at the impact of market competition on the fisheries sector, asserting that market competition may considerably increase fisheries' economic growth. Delgado et al (2021) evaluated stakeholders' perceptions of fisheries industry sustainability variables and their effects on implementing economic policies in Ecuador, concluding that lack of competitiveness is a significant challenge in developing appropriate policies for the fisheries industry's sustainable development for coastal populations who depend on fisheries activity for their economic livelihood. According to Soh et al's investigation of the sustainability of fisheries export in Malaysia in 2021, the country has a significant fish trade imbalance, and its fisheries industry may become less competitive internationally.…”

“…This study aims to determine if lessons about intellectual property rights may be applied to the sustainability of the fisheries sector (Peñaloza‐Talavera et al, 2022). Although every living thing that has ever been in nature is ineligible for a patent, whatever is made by human creativity and the putting in of human intelligence, if “new” and “non‐obvious,” is, in theory, patentable (Delgado et al, 2021), this opens up the possibility of patenting in the fisheries industry. Depending on the type of technology, different innovations in the livestock and fisheries industries may be protected by breeder's rights, patents, trademarks, geographic appellations, copyright, and industrial designs; they may also be protected by a combination of these intellectual property rights (Delgado et al, 2021).…”

“…Although every living thing that has ever been in nature is ineligible for a patent, whatever is made by human creativity and the putting in of human intelligence, if “new” and “non‐obvious,” is, in theory, patentable (Delgado et al, 2021), this opens up the possibility of patenting in the fisheries industry. Depending on the type of technology, different innovations in the livestock and fisheries industries may be protected by breeder's rights, patents, trademarks, geographic appellations, copyright, and industrial designs; they may also be protected by a combination of these intellectual property rights (Delgado et al, 2021). Putting into consideration the massive and largely remain unexplored potentialities in the usage of such resources and the more comprehensive approach to biotechnological patents which currently prevails in the industrialized countries, the patenting of living aquatic resources (or parts thereof), including genetic material in other forms, might increase in the nearest future.…”