From Unsustainability to MSC Certification: A Case Study of the Artisanal Chilean South Pacific Hake Fishery

Plotnek, Emma; Paredes, Felipe; Gálvez, Mauricio Gómez; Pérez‐Ramírez, Mónica

doi:10.1080/23308249.2016.1161003

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“…Our results support previous estimates of substantial levels of non‐compliance with the quota limit in the Chilean common‐hake fishery (Plotnek et al., 2016). However, our results also shed light on the diversity of motivations for compliance across rule‐types and fishers.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

“…The common hake plays a key ecological and economic role in the upwelling ecosystem off central Chile's coast but underreported fishing, in excess of quota limits, is threatening the conservation of the stock and the >3000 livelihoods it supports (Plotnek et al., 2016). Anecdotal evidence and enforcement records from Chile's National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service (SERNAPESCA) indicate that underreporting is particularly serious in Chile's VII region (see Figure 1b for a map).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A suite of conservation rule‐types are in place for this fishery, emerging from different institutional arrangements. High levels of non‐compliance with the fishery's quota limit have been documented (Plotnek, Paredes, Galvez, & Pérez‐Ramírez, 2016), but there is no understanding of what motivates this behavior or the heterogeneity in compliance between rule‐types and fishers. We adapted the Compliance Framework from its original use in forestry to first characterize the diversity of compliance responses and motivations for the main conservation rules for this fishery.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Motivations for (non‐)compliance with conservation rules by small‐scale resource users

Oyanedel

Gelcich

Milner‐Gulland

2020

CONSERVATION LETTERS

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Understanding compliance with conservation rules is key for biodiversity conservation. Here, we assess compliance and its underlying motivations in a small-scale fishery in Chile. We adapt a framework originally developed for forestry to unpack compliance motivations at within-individual and between-individuals levels while accounting for contextual factors. We find that 92-100% fishers comply with temporal or gear rules, while only 3% comply with the quota limit. Legitimacy-based motivations are more important in explaining why individual fishers comply with temporal/gear rules than they are for compliance with the quota. At the betweenindividuals level, we find that normative motivations are significantly related to the degree of non-compliance with the quota. Contextual factors such as quota levels are key in explaining broader non-compliance patterns. Our results suggest that considering compliance at appropriate analytical levels is necessary to unpack motivations, guide local and national natural resource management policies, and move toward a better theory of compliance.

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confidence: 92%

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confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Motivations for (non‐)compliance with conservation rules by small‐scale resource users

Oyanedel

Gelcich

Milner‐Gulland

2020

CONSERVATION LETTERS

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“…Our results are broadly consistent with previous research that presented evidence of high levels of illegal fishing in three fisheries: south Pacific hake, Chilean abalone, and southern king crab 15 , 24 , 44 – 48 . Working directly with fishers, for example, researchers empirically estimated illegal catch of Chilean abalone to be between 70 and 86% of the total harvest in central Chile 15 .…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Estimating illegal fishing from enforcement officers

Donlan

Wilcox

Luque³

et al. 2020

Sci Rep

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While illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing is a premier issue facing ocean sustainability, characterizing it is challenging due to its clandestine nature. Current approaches can be resource intensive and sometimes controversial. Using Chile as an example, we present a structured process leveraging existing capacity, fisheries officers, that provides a monitoring tool to produce transparent and stand-alone estimates on the level, structure, and characteristics of illegal fishing. We provide a national illegal fishing baseline for Chile, estimating illegal activity for 20 fisheries, representing ~ 70% of annual national landings. For four fisheries, we also estimate the relative importance of illegal activities across sectors, stakeholders, and infrastructure. While providing new information, our results also confirm previous evidence on the general patterns of illegality. Our approach provides an opportunity for government agencies to formalize their institutional knowledge, while accounting for potential biases and reducing fragmentation of knowledge that can prevent effective enforcement. Estimating illegal activity directly from fisheries enforcement officers is complementary to existing approaches, providing a cost-effective, rapid, and rigorous method to measure, monitor, and inform solutions to reduce IUU fishing.

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“…After its transition to the TURF system, its status has improved (Gelcich et al., 2010). Instead, the hake fishery started its decline in the early 2000s and its status is still unstable (Arancibia & Neira, 2008; Plotnek et al., 2016). Differences like these can affect the mental models that drive decisions under each fishing context (Gelcich et al., 2007).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of experience with access regimes on stewardship behaviors of small‐scale fishers

Rivera-Hechem

Guzmán

Rodríguez-Sickert

et al. 2021

Conservation Biology

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From Unsustainability to MSC Certification: A Case Study of the Artisanal Chilean South Pacific Hake Fishery

Cited by 12 publications

References 30 publications

Motivations for (non‐)compliance with conservation rules by small‐scale resource users

Motivations for (non‐)compliance with conservation rules by small‐scale resource users

Estimating illegal fishing from enforcement officers

Effects of experience with access regimes on stewardship behaviors of small‐scale fishers

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