Graying of the fleet: Perceived impacts on coastal resilience and local policy

Cramer, Lori A.; Flathers, Courtney; Caracciolo, Deanna; Russell, Suzanne M.; Conway, Flaxen

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2018.07.012

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“…Las olas de calor marinas y el florecimiento de algas nocivas han provocado pérdidas pesqueras inducidas por el clima en la Costa Occidental, lo que supone una reducción de $641.1 millones (en dólares de 2022) en los ingresos de la pesca comercial 247 . El cambio climático también puede intensificar factores de estrés como la disminución de las tasas de captura y desembarque y la aceleración del fenómeno del envejecimiento de la flota, es decir, el aumento de la edad promedio de los pescadores comerciales 248,249 . Las pérdidas y cierres pesqueros pueden afectar las industrias relacionadas con la pesca, como la hostelería y a la identidad cultural de los residentes que dependen directa o indirectamente de la pesca 250 .…”

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Cap. 27: Noroeste. En: La Quinta Evaluación Nacional del Clima

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“…En últimas décadas, múltiples estudios revisados por expertos han establecido cómo el cambio climático afecta diversos sistemas de cultivo anuales y perennes 216,217,218,219,220,221,222,223 , sistemas pesqueros 225,247,248,249,250,253 , sistemas forestales 233,234,236,237,242,244 y la industria turística 16,79,256,257,258,261 .…”

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Cap. 27: Noroeste. En: La Quinta Evaluación Nacional del Clima

2023

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“…His wife's job in a nearby city, despite its precarity as temporary employment (haken), has come to subsidize the fishing business, the latter merely a nominal occupation now, providing an identity rather than a livelihood. Similar to 'graying fleets' in other world regions (Cramer et al, 2018), the fishing population is aging at a higher rate than the general population, with fishers aged 65+ outnumbering those under 55 (MAFF, 2020, p. 137). Furthermore, certain fish species have suffered increasingly acute resource problems in recent years (MAFF, 2020).…”

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Blue revitalization or dispossession? Reform of common resource management in Japanese small‐scale fisheries

Ganseforth

2021

Geographical Journal

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Based on in‐depth anthropological field research in rural Japan, this paper analyses the ongoing reform of Japanese fishery governance and its social and environmental justice implications, as globally proliferating discourses on the ‘blue economy’ and ‘blue growth’ are driving the enclosure of one of the last vestiges of natural resource commons in small‐scale fisheries. Coastal fisheries in Japan are often idealized as one of the last bastions of resource co‐management in an industrialized country, with local cooperatives collectively controlling territorial fishing rights. However, demographic change, declining profitability, and dwindling resource stocks are challenging their viability. Reform of the fishery law, designed to stimulate new growth and industrialization – particularly in aquaculture – includes the opening up of coastal fishery resources to corporate investors, the strengthening of top‐down regulation, and the introduction of individual fishing quotas (IQ). The desire to boost domestic seafood production also has to be seen within the context of the double anxiety of high dependency on international trade for foodstuff and of Japan's vanishing rurality. This emphasis on private capital and presupposed economic and scientific rationality builds on the same rationale of blue economy and blue growth discourses, which promise financial along with ecological returns on large‐scale investments in sustainable ocean economies. Growth‐oriented reform in Japan now imperils successful resource co‐management in coastal small‐scale fisheries. Its analysis therefore offers deeper insights into the transformative as well as dispossessive potential of the global paradigmatic shift towards an intensified industrial exploitation of the oceans. The question of social and environmental justice is central in the re‐allocation of access rights to ocean spaces and resources and the re‐arrangement of decision‐making processes in fishery governance, as local fishing communities face a very real threat of dispossession and disempowerment.

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“…More than a decade ago we launched a multi-sited, multi-methods research project to better understand the 'graying of the fleet' in Alaska fisheries (Donkersloot and Carothers, 2016;Cullenberg et al, 2017;Ringer et al, 2018;Coleman et al, 2019;Donkersloot et al, 2020b;Donkersloot, 2021). At the time, aging trends in commercial fishing fleets in Alaska and elsewhere were generating public and policy concerns about fishing livelihood and community sustainability (Cramer et al, 2018). Demographic changes in fishing participation throughout the state represented an overall decline of Alaskan youth becoming owner-operators of fishing businesses and posed challenges for the sustainability Ringer et al 10.3389/frsus.2024.1394083 Frontiers in Sustainability frontiersin.org of culturally important fishing economies and traditions (Ringer et al, 2018).…”

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Charting a new course: ungraying the fleet and comprehensively supporting fishing livelihoods and communities

Ringer,

Donkersloot,

Carothers

2024

Front. Sustain.

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This article provides perspectives on the graying of the fleet and research efforts to understand it in Alaska fisheries, discusses recent abrupt multifaceted challenges faced by Alaskan fishermen, and compares divergent public perceptions and support programs for farmers and fishermen in the United States. Equity concerns have seen a resurgence in academic and policy realms and the graying of the fleet is now a common example of distributional inequity, yet despite in-depth research attention on the issue, few substantive programmatic modifications have been made to address it in Alaska. Aging trends in United States fisheries have typically been framed as one of changing aspirational preferences. Research suggests coastal youth do desire and highly value fishing careers, but structural and financial barriers limit opportunities for new generations. The precarity of the fishing industry was highlighted in 2023 with sudden global seafood market instability, rising interest rates and operating costs, destabilized geopolitical tensions, and hastening climate change impacts. This recent industry turmoil disproportionately impacts those on the margins and adds an additional layer of complexity to addressing graying of the fleet trends. Unlike in fisheries, there are numerous federal programs to support young farmers and the agricultural industry. This paper calls for proactive and comprehensive measures to stabilize and support fishing communities and the viability of next generation pathways amidst recent fishing industry market turmoil and longer term inequities in fishery governance.

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Graying of the fleet: Perceived impacts on coastal resilience and local policy

Cited by 29 publications

References 35 publications

Cap. 27: Noroeste. En: La Quinta Evaluación Nacional del Clima

Cap. 27: Noroeste. En: La Quinta Evaluación Nacional del Clima

Blue revitalization or dispossession? Reform of common resource management in Japanese small‐scale fisheries

Charting a new course: ungraying the fleet and comprehensively supporting fishing livelihoods and communities

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