Fishing occupational health and safety: A comparison of regulatory regimes and safety outcomes in six countries

Windle, Matthew J.S.; Neis, Barbara; Bornstein, Stephen; Binkley, Marian; Navarro, Pablo

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2007.12.003

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“…The risk associated with commercial fishing may be defined as the product of the probability of an adverse outcome (event probability) and the severity of that outcome (Windle et al 2008). The adverse outcome typically involves vessel damage and crew injury.…”

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The determinants of fishing vessel accident severity

Jin

2014

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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The study examines the determinants of fishing vessel accident severity in the Northeastern United States using vessel accident data from the U.S. Coast Guard for [2001][2002][2003][2004][2005][2006][2007][2008]. Vessel damage and crew injury severity equations were estimated separately utilizing the ordered probit model. The results suggest that fishing vessel accident severity is significantly affected by several types of accidents. Vessel damage severity is positively associated with loss of stability, sinking, daytime wind speed, vessel age, and distance to shore. Vessel damage severity is negatively associated with vessel size and daytime sea level pressure. Crew injury severity is also positively related to the loss of vessel stability and sinking.

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“…A comprehensive, multi-national review of fishing vessel safety studies can be found in Windle et al (2008). Results of their study highlight the need for an improvement in assessment and for access to accurate and standardized statistics regarding fishing-related injuries and illnesses.…”

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The determinants of fishing vessel accident severity

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2014

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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“…weather conditions (24,25). Thus, this shift in incentives has the potential to make commercial fishing safer.…”

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The effect of rights-based fisheries management on risk taking and fishing safety

Pfeiffer

Gratz

2016

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Commercial fishing is a dangerous occupation despite decades of regulatory initiatives aimed at making it safer. We posit that rights-based fisheries management (the individual allocation of fishing quota to vessels or fishing entities, also called catch shares) can improve safety by solving many of the problems associated with the competitive race to fish experienced in fisheries around the world. The competitive nature of such fisheries results in risky behavior such as fishing in poor weather, overloading vessels with fishing gear, and neglecting maintenance. Although not necessarily intended to address safety issues, catch shares eliminate many of the economic incentives to fish as rapidly as possible. We develop a dataset and methods to empirically evaluate the effects of the adoption of catch shares management on a particularly risky type of behavior: the propensity to fish in stormy weather. After catch shares was implemented in an economically important US West Coast fishery, a fisherman's probability of taking a fishing trip in high wind conditions decreased by 82% compared with only 31% in the former race to fish fishery. Overall, catch shares caused the average annual rate of fishing on high wind days to decrease by 79%. These results are evidence that institutional changes can significantly reduce individual, voluntary risk exposure and result in safer fisheries.catch shares | occupational safety | rights-based fisheries management | risk | sustainable fisheries O ccupational health and safety regulations are often instituted in response to market failures that result in a misalignment of workers' risk exposure with their individual preferences (1). The principal justifications for regulatory intervention include excessive risk taking by workers who may not fully understand or recognize the risks they face (imperfect information) or do not bear the full cost of adverse safety outcomes (moral hazard) (2, 3). Labor market frictions and societal concern about the health and safety of those in high-risk occupations provide further motivation for worker protections (3, 4).The commercial fishing industry is affected by these types of market imperfections and is also characterized by potentially high pecuniary rewards for the physical risks involved in fishing. Safety regulations were developed in response to this recognition, as well as the observance of high fatality rates among fishermen (5). In the commercial fishing industry, workplace safety regulation and research has focused on technical solutions such as requirements to carry emergency equipment, participate in safety trainings, and obtain vessel safety examinations (5-9). However, commercial fishing is still one of the most dangerous professions, with an annual average fatality rate of more than 30 times the US average. Despite decades of voluntary and regulatory fishing safety initiatives, the fatality rate has decreased only marginally and has not decreased compared with the average rate for all US workers ( Fig. 1) (10, 11).Fishermen are often ...

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“…Over the past two decades, in Canada as elsewhere, there has been no systematic mechanism in place to monitor and mitigate the potential impact of fisheries management initiatives on fishing safety and the health offish harvesters (Bornstein et al 2006;Windle et al 2008). …”

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State Policy, Livelihood Protection and Gender on Canada's East Coast

MacDonald¹,

Neis²,

Murray³

2008

International Journal of Canadian Studies

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This paper looks at the interactions between environmental and industrial restructuring within the Newfoundland and Labrador fishery and regime shifts in three main policy areas related to fisheries. Our focus is the gendered consequences of interactive restructuring across policy areas for the ability of women and men in fisheries households in Newfoundland and Labrador to make a living. The three main policy areas include fisheries management policy, Employment Insurance policy and policy related to the regulation of occupational health and workers compensation. We document important similarities in the overall pattern and outcomes of regime shift within these three policy areas and point to ways these changes have interacted with resource degradation and industrial restructuring to influence the lives and livelihoods of fishery dependent people.Cette étude porte sur l’interaction entre la restructuration environnementale et industrielle dans le secteur des pêches de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, et les changements de régime survenus dans trois secteurs de dépenses importants des pêches. L’étude concerne les répercussions pour les sexes de la restructuration interactive dans les secteurs de dépenses sur la capacité des femmes et des hommes des ménages de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador qui vivent de la pêche de gagner leur vie. Les trois principaux secteurs de dépenses comprennent la politique sur la gestion des pêches, la politique sur l’assurance-emploi et la politique sur la réglementation de la santé au travail et la rémunération des travailleurs. L’étude fait état des ressemblances importantes dans la structure générale et les résultats des changements de régime dans ces trois secteurs de dépenses et indique des façons dont ces changements ont interagi avec le dépérissement des ressources et la restructuration industrielle pour influer sur la vie et le gagne-pain des personnes tributaires de la pêche

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Fishing occupational health and safety: A comparison of regulatory regimes and safety outcomes in six countries

Cited by 77 publications

References 31 publications

The determinants of fishing vessel accident severity

The determinants of fishing vessel accident severity

The effect of rights-based fisheries management on risk taking and fishing safety

State Policy, Livelihood Protection and Gender on Canada's East Coast

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