Beyond individual quotas: The role of trust and cooperation in promoting stewardship of five Australian abalone fisheries

Gilmour, Patrick; Dwyer, Peter D.; Day, Robert W.

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2011.02.010

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“…Indeed, in line with previous work in these fisheries (Gilmour et al 2011) and other natural resources (Berkes et al 1989, Ostrom 1990, Acheson 2006b, Townsend et al 2008, the limited and welldefined nature of the resource using groups is likely to have been critical in enabling cooperation and stewardship. Rather, we cast doubt on the inferred, often taken for granted link between private ownership, in the form of ITQs, and stewardship.…”

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“…All five fisheries have, to varying degrees, proactively adopted management measures over and above those stipulated by government. These include increasing size limits, implementing closed areas, petitioning government for quota decreases, and applying rules at finer spatial scales that better match the ecology of abalone (Gilmour et al 2011). In adopting these measures, industry stakeholders have incurred direct material costs with the explicit goal of improving the long-term sustainability and productivity of the fishery.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These fisheries are of particular interest because industry groups have, to varying degrees, adopted conservative selfmanagement practices in addition to those stipulated by government managers (Gilmour et al 2011). In this they provide cases of resource users voluntarily practicing stewardship behavior and resource management.…”

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Using Private Rights to Manage Natural Resources: Is Stewardship Linked to Ownership?

Gilmour¹,

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Dwyer³

2012

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There is increasing interest in privatizing natural resource systems to promote sustainability and conservation goals. Though economic theory suggests owners of private property rights have an incentive to act as resource stewards, few studies have tested this empirically. This paper asks whether private rights-owners were more conservative with respect to their management opinions than nonrights-owners in five Australian abalone (Haliotis spp.) fisheries. Multiple regression analyses were used to link opinions to demographic, economic, and attitudinal variables. In contrast to standard economic assumptions, nonrights-owners suggested more conservative catch limits than did rights-owners, confirming qualitative observations of behavior in management workshops. Differing views about the condition of the resource and differing levels of experience contributed to these results. The first of its kind, this study directly demonstrates that private rights do not necessarily promote the greatest level of stewardship. This has substantial implications for how natural resources are governed globally, but also warns against applying simplistic behavioral assumptions to complex social-ecological systems

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“…In general, research needs to focus on how stewardship can be measured and how it changes with new management approaches (e.g., Reeve 2001, Gilmour et al 2011. Collection of suitable revealed and stated preference data with respect to environmental norms, attitudes, motivations, and stewardship behavior is a prerequisite to developing knowledge on how stewardship can be enhanced.…”

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“…Gilmour et al (2011), however, found no strong relationship between trust, the capacity for cooperation, and attitudes to resource management in fisheries but instead found that perceptions of "resource conditions" were a key determinant of collective resource stewardship. Garrity (2010) found that the information-sharing precondition for stewardship is currently not met by comanaged ITQ systems.…”

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Individual transferable quota contribution to environmental stewardship: a theory in need of validation

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Perceptions and Actions of Commercial Fishers in Response to Conservation Measures in Canadian Pacific Salmon Fisheries

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In Canadian Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp. commercial fisheries, a policy of selective fishing includes a mandatory release program intended to reduce impacts on vulnerable populations. However, there remain concerns of noncompliance with these regulations, potentially resulting in higher mortality of released fish than is accounted for. Though estimations of postrelease mortality have improved the management of commercial fisheries, the influence of fishers’ behavior is not directly considered by the regulatory framework. Additionally, perceptions of the selective fishing strategy have not been evaluated among fishers, despite knowledge that their acceptance of regulations is critical to successful management outcomes. We conducted 21 semistructured interviews with fishers from the commercial purse seine fleet for Pacific salmon about their perceptions of selective fishing, and found that attitudes towards regulations and managers are a primary determinant of compliance. We also found that greater incentives for selective fishing practices and improved communication among the fishing, management, and scientific communities would likely enhance support for management systems among members of the purse seine fleet.

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Beyond individual quotas: The role of trust and cooperation in promoting stewardship of five Australian abalone fisheries

Cited by 31 publications

References 45 publications

Using Private Rights to Manage Natural Resources: Is Stewardship Linked to Ownership?

Using Private Rights to Manage Natural Resources: Is Stewardship Linked to Ownership?

Individual transferable quota contribution to environmental stewardship: a theory in need of validation

Perceptions and Actions of Commercial Fishers in Response to Conservation Measures in Canadian Pacific Salmon Fisheries

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