Assessing the Brazilian federal fisheries law and policy in light of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale fisheries

Nakamura, Julia; Hazin, Fábio Hissa Vieira

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2019.103798

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“…8) (UNGA Resolution 61/295). Moreover, at national level, a law can be passed to provide such compensation (Nakamura and Hazin, 2020). For example, Petrobras company in Brazil had to adopt a plan to compensate the impact of its activity towards small-scale fishers (Lei no.…”

Section: Ocean Grabbingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Marine spatial planning and the risk of ocean grabbing in the tropical Atlantic

Queffelec

Bonnin

Ferreira

et al. 2021

ICES Journal of Marine Science

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Ocean grabbing occurs when traditional users, such as small-scale fishers, are pushed aside by new development activities. This grabbing must be prevented to avoid sea uses that maintain or increase social inequity. In this paper, we show that in tropical Atlantic countries, such as Brazil and Senegal, examples of ocean grabbing already occur. In this context, we analyse if Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) may be an opportunity to limit ocean grabbing or, to the contrary, poses a risk to increase it. MSP calls for an ecosystem approach that requires integrated coastal and marine management and involves stakeholders in developing a shared vision of the future, where society and environment are preserved. However, recent studies have shown that MSP is a process to be used cautiously to ensure equitable decisions. Meanwhile, the concept is spreading worldwide including in tropical Atlantic countries. We highlight that context matters and the specificities of the tropical Atlantic must be taken into account when deploying MSP processes. In the tropical Atlantic context, there is increased imbalances of stakeholder power, traps from decision support tools, and a need for adaptive management. These specific features must be addressed when deploying MSP in a way to avoid ocean grabbing.

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Section: Ocean Grabbingmentioning

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“…for decentralizing managerial responsibility for natural resources to communities that have a proven history of sustainable use" (Da Silva, 2004, p. 421). In fact, coastal and marine RESEX avoid green grabbing, since traditional populations are at the base of their constitution and management (Nakamura and Hazin, 2020).…”

Section: Ocean Grabbingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Marine spatial planning and the risk of ocean grabbing in the tropical Atlantic

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Bonnin

Ferreira

et al. 2021

ICES Journal of Marine Science

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“…This transboundary problem repeats within national borders as well. In most tropical countries with large coastlines like Brazil, Indonesia, Philippines, India and Mexico, coastal fisheries are often decentralised and governed by provinces which have significant autonomy in terms of fisheries management [22][23][24][25]26 . Rarely is there a uniform harvest regime across the geographical area considered within a PSA.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Unbounding fish: Assessing vulnerability to overexploitation for transboundary fish populations

Gangal,

Arthur,

Suri

et al. 2024

Preprint

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Tropical fish populations often traverse management boundaries, making it difficult to evaluate species vulnerabilities and optimise sustainable fishing goals. Most vulnerability assessments rely on life histories and gear susceptibility, but ignore transboundary differences in management, which can strongly affect vulnerability. We propose a novel vulnerability matrix, the Biology – Transboundary Management (BTM) index for individual fish populations based on 1) Species specific vulnerability 2) distribution of genetically-distinct populations with respect to jurisdictional boundaries and 3) sustainability of management practices across jurisdictions. Combining single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analyses and policy assessments, we evaluate relative vulnerabilities of nine commercially relevant fish populations over a 3400km stretch of India’s west coast, across multiple jurisdictions. The BTM matrix indicates that transboundary differences in management strongly influences biological vulnerability. The matrix is sensitive to population-level differences and policy changes. Our analyses emphasise the need for population-level assessments and transboundary cooperation in achieving sustainable multi species fisheries.

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“…It is also, however, a data poor region in relation to fisheries statistics despite being the largest fish producing region (Santa Catarina state) in the country [20]. Stock monitoring data are regionally and chronologically dispersed [20][21][22][23], and mostly limited to the second half of the 20th and the first decade of the 21st centuries [20,[24][25][26][27]. In Brazil, there has been an increased effort to expand stock reconstructions with data collected from local fisheries [28][29][30][31][32][33] and seafood wholesale market data [34,35], but these approaches are inherently limited to only the most recent decades affected by large national fisheries subsidies, specifically from the 1960's to 1970's [36].…”

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180 years of marine animal diversity as perceived by public media in southern Brazil

Herbst,

Rampon,

Baleeiro

et al. 2023

PLoS ONE

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Commoditization of marine resources has dramatically increased anthropogenic footprints on coastal and ocean systems, but the scale of these impacts remain unclear due to a pervasive lack of historical baselines. Through the analysis of historical newspapers, this paper explores changes in marine animals (vertebrates and invertebrates) targeted by historical fisheries in southern Brazil since the late 19th century. The investigation of historical newspaper archives revealed unprecedented information on catch composition, and perceived social and economic importance of key species over decades, predating official national-level landing records. We show that several economically and culturally important species have been under persistent fishing pressure at least since the first national-scale subsidies were introduced for commercial fisheries in Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Our work expands the current knowledge on historical fish catch compositions in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean, while advocating for the integration of historical data in ocean sustainability initiatives.

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Assessing the Brazilian federal fisheries law and policy in light of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale fisheries

Cited by 16 publications

References 13 publications

Marine spatial planning and the risk of ocean grabbing in the tropical Atlantic

Marine spatial planning and the risk of ocean grabbing in the tropical Atlantic

Unbounding fish: Assessing vulnerability to overexploitation for transboundary fish populations

180 years of marine animal diversity as perceived by public media in southern Brazil

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