Implications of Urbanization for Artisanal Parrotfish Fisheries in the Western Solomon Islands

Aswani, Shankar; Sabetian, Armagan

doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01377.x

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“…In two studies [50], similar performance with open access was reported in the absence of monitoring and high resource use pressure. Overall, regime characteristics were not broadly discussed, and we noted only three studies [51,55,56] that discussed positive regime characteristics.…”

Section: Results From Fisheries Resource Systemsmentioning

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What are the environmental impacts of property rights regimes in forests, fisheries and rangelands?

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Background: Property rights to natural resources comprise a major policy instrument in efforts to advance sustainable resource use and conservation. Debate over the relative effectiveness of different property rights regimes in reaching these goals remains controversial. A large, diverse, and rapidly growing body of literature investigates the links between property rights regimes and environmental outcomes, but has not synthesized theoretical and policy insights within specific resource systems and especially across resource systems. Methods:We conducted a systematic review following CEE Guidelines in which we collected empirical evidence from the past two decades on the environmental impacts of property rights regimes in fisheries, forests and rangelands in developing countries. We used a bundle of rights approach to assess the impacts of state, private, and community property regimes, as well as mixed regimes and open access conditions. Outcomes were classified as positive, negative, neutral or undetermined. We also collected information on contextual and other factors thought to influence effect of property rights regimes on environmental outcomes. The search covered 90 online databases and three languages, resulting in a total of 34,984 screened titles.Results: This review identified 103 articles consisting of 374 property regime studies: 55% of the studies related to forestry, 31% to fisheries, and 14% to rangelands. The majority of the studies comprised case-control studies but presented limited information on the baseline condition of the resource system. Only 26 studies used before-aftercontrol-impact (BACI) design. We found that property regime comparisons differed across resource domains with, for example, the majority of fisheries studies using comparison to an open access situation while forest and rangeland studies were more mixed in regime comparisons. After critical appraisal of included studies, only 80 studies were accepted for the narrative synthesis. The key contextual factors largely associated with reported positive environmental outcomes across the three resource systems included monitoring and enforcement systems, resource use pressure, and the presence or absence of clear, stable and legitimate rights (i.e. 'positive regime characteristics').

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“…Only 16 studies reported enough baseline data [36,40,41,44,46,47,51,55,56] and these were classified into poor, fair and good conditions (Fig. 12).…”

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“…In some cases, communities will harvest fish from these areas to provide food for culturally important occasions (Bartlett et al, 2009). Empirical studies suggest that these 'hybrid' systems are having tangible conservation benefits; when compared to nearby areas open to fishing, they have more than three times the biomass of fish vulnerable to overfishing inside periodically harvested areas in Vanuatu and two times the amount of herbivorous parrotfish in some community-based closures in Solomon Islands (Aswani and Sabetain, 2010;Bartlett et al, 2009). Importantly, the rules-in-use developed by these 'hybrid' systems are more likely to reflect local social, economic, and cultural conditions than those devised by technocrats in far away capital cities.…”

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Social-ecological traps in reef fisheries

Cinner

2011

Global Environmental Change

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“…Benefits of these customary practices include increases in fisheries yields (McClanahan et al, 1997), target species biomass (Cinner et al, 2005a, b) and abundance (Aswani & Sabetian, 2010). Important ecosystem processes, such as herbivory , and metrics of ecosystem health, such as coral cover are often higher in areas under customary management (Baird et al, 2005), Integrating these customary systems with contemporary management practices (e.g., spatially defined marine protected areas) continues to be an area of active research (Johannes, 2002;Aswani et al, 2007) with these alternate forms of marine resource management increasingly being advocated .…”

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Avoiding conflicts and protecting coral reefs: customary management benefits marine habitats and fish biomass

Campbell

Cinner

Ardiwijaya

et al. 2012

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One of the major goals of coral reef conservation is to determine the most effective means of managing marine resources in regions where economic conditions often limit the options available. For example, no-take fishing areas can be impractical in regions where people rely heavily on reef fish for food. In this study, we test whether coral reef health differed among areas with varying management practices and socioeconomic conditions on Pulau Weh, in the Indonesia province of Aceh. Our results show that gear restrictions, in particular, prohibiting the use of nets, were remarkably successful in minimizing habitat degradation and maintaining fish biomass despite ongoing access to the fishery. Reef fish biomass and hard-coral cover were two to eight-fold higher at sites where fishing nets were prohibited. Most interestingly, the guiding principle of the local customary management system, Panglima Laot, is to reduce conflict among community members over access to marine resources. Consequently, conservation benefits in Aceh have arisen from a customary system which lacks a specific environmental ethic or the means for strong resource based management. Panglima Laot includes many of the features of successful institutions, such as clearly defined membership rights and the opportunity of resource users to be involved in making, enforcing, and changing the rules. Such mechanisms to reduce conflict are the key to success of marine resource management, particularly, in settings which lack resources for enforcement.

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Implications of Urbanization for Artisanal Parrotfish Fisheries in the Western Solomon Islands

Abstract: Increasing migration into urbanized centers in the Solomon Islands poses a great threat to adjacent coral reef fisheries because of negative effects on the fisheries and because it further erodes

Cited by 67 publications

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What are the environmental impacts of property rights regimes in forests, fisheries and rangelands?

What are the environmental impacts of property rights regimes in forests, fisheries and rangelands?

Social-ecological traps in reef fisheries

Avoiding conflicts and protecting coral reefs: customary management benefits marine habitats and fish biomass

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