From Vegetable Box to Seafood Cooler: Applying the Community-Supported Agriculture Model to Fisheries

Campbell, Lisa M.; Boucquey, Noëlle; Stoll, Joshua S.; Coppola, Henry

doi:10.1080/08941920.2013.842276

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“…Perhaps the most information about local seafood marketing channels pertains to community supported fisheries (CSF) operations, which are premised on the CSA model (e.g., Brinson, Lee, and Rountree 2011;Campbell et al 2014;McClenachan et al 2014;Bolton et al 2016). There are approximately 400 CSF operations and small-scale harvesters nationally (LocalCatch.org 2018), although national-level estimates of sales at those markets are not available.…”

Section: Overview Of Local Seafood Marketsmentioning

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Missing the Boat? Measuring and Evaluating Local Groundfish Purchases by New England Institutions

O’Hara¹,

McClenachan²

2018

Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics

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The development of local food markets has provided a critical economic opportunity for small farms in New England. The collapse of Gulf of Maine groundfish stocks has motivated an interest in developing similar marketing opportunities for wild-caught, locally abundant seafood. Institutions, particularly schools and colleges, have been identified as a strategic entry point in the supply chain for such products. However, there has been a dearth of research on this topic. We undertake a case study that evaluates purchases of local groundfish by schools and colleges in New England. First, we analyze recently developed secondary data to assess the propensity and frequency of local seafood purchases. We find that local seafood purchases by schools in New England are not widespread even among the subset of schools that are undertaking farm to school activities, and that schools that are purchasing local seafood are doing so infrequently. We also find that colleges have been more proactive in sourcing local seafood products. There is a high degree of state-level variation within New England, as institutions in states with relatively more prominent commercial fishing sectors are sourcing local seafood products to a relatively greater degree. Further, colleges explicitly expressed that technical assistance in sourcing sustainable seafood products would be most beneficial in regions where there was less available supply. Second, to draw further inferences about the sustainability of local seafood purchases, we report the results of seafood procurement procedures from New England colleges. We find that these colleges source a wide variety of local groundfish principally for on-campus dining and that they place high value on seafood certification schemes as guidance for making sustainable purchases. We conclude by reviewing how data collection methods for local agricultural markets could be modified with regard to seafood distribution systems.

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Section: Overview Of Local Seafood Marketsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Missing the Boat? Measuring and Evaluating Local Groundfish Purchases by New England Institutions

O’Hara¹,

McClenachan²

2018

Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics

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“…CSFs are one of the most visible and rapidly expanding types of direct marketing arrangements in North America, attracting attention because of their parallels to community-supported agriculture (CSA) farms (Campbell et al 2014) and the ecological benefits they afford (McClenachan et al 2014). Although CSA farms have operated in North America for more than 3 decades (Cooley and Lass 1998) The rise of direct marketing arrangements is partly a reflection of consumers' growing demand for the social, ecological, and economic value of local foods and associated terroirs (Kloppenburg et al 1996, O'Hara andStagl 2001).…”

Section: Rise Of Direct Marketing Arrangementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Using case studies allows for what McCarthy et al (2014) describe as an "in-depth longitudinal understanding" that is largely missing from the literature on transformability, as well as in published literature on CSFs more generally. The published literature on CSFs is limited, particularly with regard to their broader implications as a social phenomenon and potential impacts on management (although see Brinson et al 2011, Campbell et al 2014, McClenachan et al 2014. More fundamentally, the economic and noneconomic benefits of CSFs have yet to be described in detail.…”

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“…Our intent is to draw on the fine-grained knowledge of institutional dynamics afforded by a case study approach to develop a working model of the relationship between economic incentives, social capital development, and resilience, to be further refined and expanded as academic study of CSFs continues. We build our case by focusing on the details of a direct marketing arrangement between fishers and consumers to lend depth to our analysis, using a CSF in eastern North Carolina, called Walking Fish (WF; see also Stoll et al 2010, Campbell et al 2014. Data from WF are used to quantify and describe the economic value that is incentivizing fishers to participate in the CSF.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Local seafood: rethinking the direct marketing paradigm

Stoll¹,

Dubik²,

Campbell³

2015

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ABSTRACT. Faced with strict regulations, rising operational costs, depleted stocks, and competition from less expensive foreign imports, many fishers are pursuing new ways to market and sell their catch. Direct marketing arrangements can increase the ex-vessel value of seafood and profitability of operations for fishers by circumventing dominant wholesale chains of custody and capturing the premium that customers are willing to pay for local seafood. Our analysis goes beyond a paradigm that understands direct marketing arrangements as solely economic tools to consider how these emerging business configurations create a set of conditions that can result in increased bonding and bridging capital among fishers by incentivizing cooperation, communication, and information production and organization. To build our case, we report on the economic value being generated for fishers in a cooperatively owned and operated direct marketing arrangement in eastern North Carolina. Over the course of 2 years, fishers participating in the Walking Fish communitysupported fishery received 33% more revenue for their catch compared to the average monthly ex-vessel price of finfish and shellfish landed in the surrounding region, and an additional 14% to 18% more per dollar by way of year-end profit sharing. We argue that these economic benefits create an incentive to participate, resulting in cooperation among fishers and increased communication skills that foster bonding and bridging capital that put fishers in a position to identify and respond to challenges that threaten the socialecological resilience of the systems within which they operate. We suggest that "institutional starters" like these can play a critical role in increasing the resilience of social-ecological systems, including fisheries.

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“…Fisheries management, for example, has seen a growing emphasis on the role, rights and responsibilities of small-scale fishers in stewarding local resources-as evidenced in programs such as Chile's Territorial Use Rights Fisheries program (TURFs) , the rise of community supported fisheries programs globally (Brinson et al 2011;McClenachan et al 2014), the release of the global "Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries" (FAO 2015) and increased funding of NGO programs that focus on small-scale fisheries (e.g., the Fish Forever Program (Barner et al 2015)). In the agriculture sector, community supported agriculture initiatives-which reward farmers for stewardship-oriented practices-have emerged over the last few decades (Fish et al 2003;Campbell et al 2014;Raymond et al 2016). Community-based forestry programs have grown in popularity since the 1980s, and have spread from the global south to the global North (McDermott and Schreckenberg 2009;Baynes et al 2015).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Environmental Stewardship: A Conceptual Review and Analytical Framework

Bennett¹,

Whitty²,

Finkbeiner³

et al. 2018

Preprint

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There has been increasing attention to and investment in local environmental stewardship in conservation and environmental management policies and programs globally. Yet environmental stewardship has not received adequate conceptual attention. Establishing a clear definition and comprehensive analytical framework could strengthen our ability to understand the factors that lead to the success or failure of environmental stewardship in different contexts and how to most effectively support and enable local efforts. Here we propose such a definition and framework. First, we define local environmental stewardship as the actions taken by individuals, groups or networks of actors, with various motivations and levels of capacity, to protect, care for or responsibly use the environment in pursuit of environmental and/or social outcomes in diverse social–ecological contexts. Next, drawing from a review of the environmental stewardship, management and governance literatures, we unpack the elements of this definition to develop an analytical framework that can facilitate research on local environmental stewardship. Finally, we discuss potential interventions and leverage points for promoting or supporting local stewardship and future applications of the framework to guide descriptive, evaluative, prescriptive or systematic analysis of environmental stewardship. Further application of this framework in diverse environmental and social contexts is recommended to refine the elements and develop insights that will guide and improve the outcomes of environmental stewardship initiatives and investments. Ultimately, our aim is to raise the profile of environmental stewardship as a valuable and holistic concept for guiding productive and sustained relationships with the environment.

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From Vegetable Box to Seafood Cooler: Applying the Community-Supported Agriculture Model to Fisheries

Cited by 61 publications

References 29 publications

Missing the Boat? Measuring and Evaluating Local Groundfish Purchases by New England Institutions

Missing the Boat? Measuring and Evaluating Local Groundfish Purchases by New England Institutions

Local seafood: rethinking the direct marketing paradigm

Environmental Stewardship: A Conceptual Review and Analytical Framework

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