Managing at Maximum Sustainable Yield does not ensure economic well‐being for artisanal fishers

Girón‐Nava, Alfredo; Johnson, Andrew F.; Cisneros‐Montemayor, Andrés M.; Aburto‐Oropeza, Octavio

doi:10.1111/faf.12332

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“…They also tended to be exclusionary -or at least not fully equitably -in how the norms and customs were applied to members and nonmembers of the communities (Barnes et al, 2016). Even looking at the important successes these norms and customs may have in promoting sustainability at the community level, these successes are increasing challenged as globalization increasingly influences cultures and practices at every scale (Giron-Nava et al, 2019;Crona et al, 2020). For example in many places the portion of community-based catches and takes from hunting and fishing that enters trade has grown substantially, as the fish and game are targeted at urban food markets where families from rural areas have relocated seeking employment and opportunities.…”

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Equity – the Bottleneck and the Opportunity

Rice

2021

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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There is a widespread tendency for diverse uses of Nature, on scales from small and local to very large, to become unsustainable. Once unsustainable, bringing a use back to sustainability and keeping it sustainable then takes substantial effort and tools appropriate to the context of the use. This Perspective first asks why is the tendency for unsustainability so pervasive, when it is an outcome that no user group has adopted as an objective, and ways to keep uses sustainable are known. I argue and present evidence that the common factor underlying the pervasiveness of unsustainable uses of Nature is inequity in the distribution of the benefits created from those uses, with both the wealthy “winners” of the distributional inequities and those disadvantaged and in poverty driving uses toward increasing unsustainability in ways that depend on the nature of the inequities. Unless the inequity of distribution of benefits from uses of Nature is addressed as an issue in its own right, there are few or no pathways to medium or long-term sustainable use. However, if inequity is addressed broadly and effectively, many pathways are available and societies can select the pathways appropriate to their cultural and ecological contexts.

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Equity – the Bottleneck and the Opportunity

Rice

2021

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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“…In most SSFs data on catches, stock status and environmental, economic, and social attributes are often unavailable (Kalikoski and Franz, 2014;Jentoft and Chuenpagdee, 2015;Johnson et al, 2017;Giron-Nava et al, 2018;Agapito et al, 2019). Furthermore, the data that are available are often misreported or patchy (The World Bank, 2012;Cisneros-Montemayor et al, 2013).…”

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Navigating Complexities: Agent-Based Modeling to Support Research, Governance, and Management in Small-Scale Fisheries

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The sustainable governance and management of small-scale fisheries (SSF) is challenging, largely due to their dynamic and complex nature. Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a computational modeling approach that can account for the dynamism and complexity in SSF by modeling entities as individual agents with different characteristics and behavior, and simulate how their interactions can give rise to emergent phenomena, such as over-fishing and social inequalities. The structurally realistic design of agentbased models allow stakeholders, experts, and scientists across disciplines and sectors to reconcile different knowledge bases, assumptions, and goals. ABMs can also be designed using any combination of theory, quantitative data, or qualitative data. In this publication we elaborate on the untapped potential of ABM to tackle governance and management challenges in SSF, discuss the limitations of ABM, and review its application in published SSF models. Our review shows that, although few models exist to date, ABM has been used for diverse purposes, including as a research tool for understanding cooperation and over-harvesting, and as a decision-support tool, or participatory tool, in case-specific fisheries. Even though the development of ABMs is often time-and resource intensive, it is the only dynamic modeling approach that can represent entities of different types, their heterogeneity, actions, and interactions, thus doing justice to the complex and dynamic nature of SSF which, if ignored can lead to unintended policy outcomes and less sustainable SSF.

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“…For example, fisheries management actions, such as the creation of no-take marine protected areas or reductions in fishing effort, can require short-term losses to produce long-term net economic gains [11]. However, even improvements in the aggregate benefits of environmental management alone may also not be enough to produce improvements in human well-being for all groups [12][13][14][15][16]. Furthermore, there have been significant critiques of the social justice implications of conservation and management efforts that aim to achieve environmental sustainability [17][18][19][20].…”

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Just Transformations to Sustainability

et al. 2019

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Transformations towards sustainability are needed to address many of the earth's profound environmental and social challenges. Yet, actions taken to deliberately shift social-ecological systems towards more sustainable trajectories can have substantial social impacts and exclude people from decision-making processes. The concept of just transformations makes explicit a need to consider social justice in the process of shifting towards sustainability. In this paper, we draw on the transformations, just transitions, and social justice literature to advance a pragmatic framing of just transformations that includes recognitional, procedural and distributional considerations. Decision-making processes to guide just transformations need to consider these three factors before, during and after the transformation period. We offer practical and methodological guidance to help navigate just transformations in environmental management and sustainability policies and practice. The framing of just transformations put forward here might be used to inform decision making in numerous marine and terrestrial ecosystems, in rural and urban environments, and at various scales from local to global. We argue that sustainability transformations cannot be considered a success unless social justice is a central concern.

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Managing at Maximum Sustainable Yield does not ensure economic well‐being for artisanal fishers

Cited by 20 publications

References 46 publications

Equity – the Bottleneck and the Opportunity

Equity – the Bottleneck and the Opportunity

Navigating Complexities: Agent-Based Modeling to Support Research, Governance, and Management in Small-Scale Fisheries

Just Transformations to Sustainability

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