From open access regime to closed fishing season: Lessons from small-scale coastal fisheries in the Western Region of Ghana

Owusu, Victor; Andriesse, Edo

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104162

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“…Cinner et al (2009) suggest that poverty excludes fisherfolk from adopting livelihood strategies that could potentially build resilience to shocks [76]. In Ghana's fishing communities, poverty is more prevalent among fisherfolk than others [13,77]. It is found that the likelihood of fisherfolk having a resilient livelihood increased with increasing wealth status.…”

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Assessing Livelihood Resilience of Artisanal Fisherfolk to the Decline in Small-Scale Fisheries in Ghana

2021

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The concept of livelihood resilience provides a unique framework for understanding challenges in complex social–ecological systems (SESs) and fostering sustainability. Despite the crises many small-scale fisheries (SSFs) are facing, few studies have operationalized the concept in the context of declining SSFs in developing countries. This study aims to assess the resilience of artisanal fisherfolk livelihoods and its predicting factors in three fishing communities—Elmina, Jamestown, and Axim—in Ghana. A total of 1180 semi-structured interviews were conducted with fishers, fish processors, and mongers. Descriptive and multivariate statistical techniques were used to analyze the data. The results show that the livelihood resilience of fisherfolk increases with an increased level of education and varies by gender. Male fisherfolk with secondary/post-secondary level education had the highest proportion (50%) of more resilient livelihoods. Only 36% of female fisherfolk with secondary/post-secondary level education had more resilient livelihoods. While 40% of male fisherfolk with no formal education had less resilient livelihoods, the livelihoods of half (51%) of females fisherfolk with no formal education were less resilient. The sociodemographic characteristics including wealth status, dependency ratio, marital status, religion, and ethnicity; contextual factors (community); and other relevant factors (experience in fishing, membership of fisherfolk association/group, and beneficiary of livelihood interventions) were found as predictors of the resilience of fisherfolks livelihoods. The findings suggest that interventions towards improving the livelihood resilience of fisherfolk need to consider individual- and household-level characteristics, as well as contextual factors such as marital status, religious affiliation, ethnicity, wealth status, dependency ratio, community, etc.

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Assessing Livelihood Resilience of Artisanal Fisherfolk to the Decline in Small-Scale Fisheries in Ghana

2021

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“…Itano (1995) and (Barocas et al, 2021) found that the spawning and fishing season for yellowfin tuna in Hawaiian waters occurs from April to September, in Philippine waters occur from March to December (Rola et al, 2018), and in the Pacific waters occur in July, August, and September (Kikawa, 1962;Macusi et al, 2021). Furthermore, in the eastern Pacific waters, the spawning and fishing season occur in January-March (Joseph, 1963;Calderwood et al, 2021), waters near the Hawaiian Islands, the spawning and fishing season occurs from June to December (Richard and Simmons, 1971;Duarte et al, 2018;Miyamoto et al, 2019), and the spawning and fishing season for yellowfin tuna in the Andaman sea takes place from November to April (John, 1995;Gabriela et al, 2021;Owusu et al, 2020;Yıldız et al, 2020). The peak season for fish spawning and fishing in the Indian Ocean occurs in April and August (Hutapea et al, 2006;Widodo and Suwarso, 2005).…”

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Fishing season of large pelagic fish in Idi Rayeuk waters, East Aceh, Indonesia

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Rizwan³

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Large pelagic fish live on the water surface in groups. Skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis), yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares), mackerel tuna (Euthynnus affinis), mackerel (Scomberomous guttatus) are species of fishes that mainly catches by fishermen using purse seines. This study aims to determine the length and weight of large pelagic fish in the water of Idi Rayeuk and best the fishing season. This research was conducted in one month. Fish samples were collected from fishermen that used purse seine and landed their catches at the Idi Rayeuk Fishing Port, East Aceh. Additionally, the data was derived from the fishing port time-series during 2015 to 2019. The result showed that the yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) has a length between 37 - 58 cm with a weight of 1.0 - 3.2 kg, skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) 32 - 58 cm in length and weight 0.5 - 3.0 kg, mackerel tuna has 33 - 54 cm of length with a weight of 0.6 - 2.5 kg, and mackerel has 44 - 66 cm of length and weighing 0.7 - 1.7 kg. Its also found that the peak season for catching yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) and mackerel tuna is May and June, and the lowest season in December for the yellowfin tuna, and December and January for the mackerel tuna. The peak season for skipjack fishing occurs in May, August, and October, and the low season occurs in November and December. Meanwhile, the peak season for fishing mackerel occurs in May, September, and October, while the low season occurs in January, February, and March.Keywords:Fishing seasonLarge pelagicPurse seineIdi RayeukAceh

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“…However, over the last years, small-scale fishery communities experienced income losses of up to 40% per canoe due to declining catch and overexploitation (Owusu and Andriesse, 2020;. Decreasing returns due to low fish supply, increasing competition for resources between industrial and artisanal vessels, and higher input costs make it hard for smallscale fisheries to generate profits or even sustain their livelihoods Hasselberg et al, 2020;FAO, 2016;Pauly and Zeller, 2016;Asiedu and Nunoo, 2015).…”

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“…Decreasing returns due to low fish supply, increasing competition for resources between industrial and artisanal vessels, and higher input costs make it hard for smallscale fisheries to generate profits or even sustain their livelihoods Hasselberg et al, 2020;FAO, 2016;Pauly and Zeller, 2016;Asiedu and Nunoo, 2015). The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development (MoFAD) in Ghana published a report stating the decrease in the number of fishers to be 22.7%, with almost 140,000 fishers in 2013 and less than 110,000 only three years later (Owusu and Andriesse, 2020).…”

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“…Reasons for declining catch rates include the application of illegal and unsustainable fishing methods, as well as the overexploitation of marine areas. Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUU) is common Ashitey, 2019;Merem et al, 2019;Okafor-Yarwood, 2019;Belhabib, Greer, and Pauly, 2018;FAO, 2016;Nunoo et al, 2014;Pramod et al, 2014) and describes fishing without permission, operating against conservation measures, or the violation of other obligations, including the use of illegal fishing methods like dynamite or light fishing (FAO, 2021b;Owusu and Andriesse, 2020). Additionally, registered vessel numbers in marine areas of West Africa have increased for all sectors: industrial, artisanal, subsistence, and recreational (Pauly and Zeller, 2016).…”

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Links between international trade, local food production, and household living standards: Empirical insights from West Africa

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Sustainable food production, responsible consumption, poverty reduction, and decent living standards are important global objectives reflected in the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In achieving these goals, agricultural trade plays a major role.Research has shown that benefits from trade liberalization include poverty alleviation, decreasing food prices due to production advantages and competition, and an increased variety of and access to food products. In the light of continuing poverty and food insecurity in low-and middle-income countries, imports and exports are crucial as they offer income gains for producers and improved access to affordable and nutritious foods for consumers.Trade bans or protectionist policies on the other hand can lead to income losses and higher food prices. However, not all population segments necessarily benefit from trade. A large share of the population in developing countries relies on agricultural production for their income, meaning that they may potentially benefit from higher food prices associated with trade restrictions. Results in the existing literature on the overall impact of agricultural trade on low-and middle-income countries are predominantly positive, but the existing trade-offs between liberalization and protectionism and the important distributional effects in different population segments are not yet sufficiently brought into the equation. This dissertation contributes to the literature by examining the links between international agricultural trade, local food production, household consumption, and living standards using three case studies in West Africa. The dissertation addresses gaps in the literature regarding measures to improve the conditions of trade, as well as consequences of market-distorting trade barriers on production, consumption, and welfare in developing countries.The first essay of this dissertation takes a look at the effects of Fairtrade certification on poor and non-poor farm households' food security and living standards in Côte d'Ivoire.Sustainability standards like Fairtrade aim to improve conditions of trade and production by empowering producers of export crops in low-and middle-income countries. By providing better working conditions and offering higher market prices, certification should improve the living standards of participating farmers. While previous research found that Fairtrade has positive effects on farmers' sales prices and incomes, this analysis further explores the effects on food security and other dimensions of household living standards that have not ii been subject to research before. Based on data from a survey of cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire, the study looks at how Fairtrade certification affects aggregate household consumption expenditures and the consumption of specific types of consumer goods and services using regression models with instrumental variables. We find that Fairtrade increases aggregate and non-food consumption expenditures but does not have significant effects on food consump...

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From open access regime to closed fishing season: Lessons from small-scale coastal fisheries in the Western Region of Ghana

Cited by 21 publications

References 26 publications

Assessing Livelihood Resilience of Artisanal Fisherfolk to the Decline in Small-Scale Fisheries in Ghana

Assessing Livelihood Resilience of Artisanal Fisherfolk to the Decline in Small-Scale Fisheries in Ghana

Fishing season of large pelagic fish in Idi Rayeuk waters, East Aceh, Indonesia

Links between international trade, local food production, and household living standards: Empirical insights from West Africa

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