Purging the Frontier from our Mind: Crafting a New Fisheries Policy

Bromley, Daniel W.

doi:10.1007/s11160-005-4866-z

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“…With few alternatives and increasing enclosure, one possible response could be that residents of Cutler and Thorupstrand move to a place with more employment opportunities. Advocates of ITQs often recommend that the simplest solution is to move, but others point to differentiated mobility (Bromley ) and simply the desire to remain in one’s place (Macinko ). Abundant literature addresses occupational identity of fishing (Pollnac and Poggie , ), but how the occupation affords lifestyles emplaced in rural communities is often overlooked.…”

Section: Insights From the Fieldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Existential fisheries dependence: Remaining on the map through fishing

Ounanian

2019

Sociologia Ruralis

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This article considers how remoteness, rurality, and local initiatives combine to enable community responses to the threat of fisheries enclosure. Centred on two case studies from a wider portfolio of six cases in Northern Jutland, Denmark and New England, USA, the article presents a narrative of these places based on semi‐structured interviews and participant observation. Thorupstrand, Denmark and Cutler, Maine, USA exemplify communities fighting to retain access to fisheries under enclosure and recognition of this threat. Lacking alternatives due to their geographic and infrastructural isolation, the two cases typify existential fisheries dependence, indicating that they would not be on the map without fishing to sustain them.Their precarious positions compelled many in the communities to act and preserve the fishing industry and culture. Although Thorupstrand and Cutler diverge in their approaches to maintaining fishing access, they collectively speak to the overlooked connection between fisheries management and rural places.

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Section: Insights From the Fieldmentioning

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Existential fisheries dependence: Remaining on the map through fishing

Ounanian

2019

Sociologia Ruralis

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“…This disincentive to overcapitalize could be combined with a disincentive to overfish. A landing fee or royalty on the value per kilogram of fish landed has been proposed in a "pay-asyou-fish" policy, with the royalty rate established in auctions for limited-term permits for assigned catch shares of the annual TAC (Macinko and Bromley 2002, Bromley 2005. As with the entry fee, if the royalty rate on the landed value were scaled with fishing capacity or 'latent fishing effort', e.g., 1% royalty for smaller vessels and 3% royalty for larger vessels, then the policy mechanism would discourage excessive fishing capacity and extraction.…”

Section: Paying For the Privilege To Fishmentioning

confidence: 99%

Of Fish and Fishermen: Shifting Societal Baselines to Reduce Environmental Harm in Fisheries

Lam¹

2012

E&S

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ABSTRACT. If reasonable fishery harvests and environmental harms are specified in new regulations, policies, and laws governing the exploitation of fish for food and livelihoods, then societal baselines can shift to achieve sustainable fisheries and marine conservation. Fisheries regulations can limit the environmental and social costs or harms caused by fishing by requiring the fishing industry to pay for the privilege to fish, via access fees for the opportunity to catch fish and extraction fees for fish caught; both fees can be combined with a progressive environmental tax to discourage overcapitalization and overfishing. Fisheries policies can be sustainable if predicated on an instrumental and ethical harm principle to reduce fishing harm. To protect the public trust in fisheries, environmental laws can identify the unsustainable depletion of fishery resources as ecological damage and a public nuisance to bind private fishing enterprises to a harm principle. Collaborative governance can foster sustainable fisheries if decision-making rights and responsibilities of marine stewardship are shared among government, the fishing industry, and civil society. As global food security and human welfare are threatened by accelerating human population growth and environmental impacts, decisions of how to use and protect the environment will involve collective choices in which all citizens have a stake -and a right.

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“…Because privatizing natural resources has far-reaching and long-term conservation and social implications (Bromley 2005, Sumaila 2010, there is a clear need to demonstrate empirically whether, and to what extent, that link actually exists. Our aim in the present study is to examine relationships between private property rights, in the form of individual transferable quota (ITQ), and resource stewardship.…”

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“…From an ecological perspective, the broader environmental impacts of fishing on bycatch and habitat remain external to owners (Gibbs 2010). Once implemented, private rights are also difficult to change (Bromley 2005). This can make it difficult for governments wishing to implement initiatives such as marine protected areas.…”

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Using Private Rights to Manage Natural Resources: Is Stewardship Linked to Ownership?

Gilmour¹,

Day²,

Dwyer³

2012

E&S

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There is increasing interest in privatizing natural resource systems to promote sustainability and conservation goals. Though economic theory suggests owners of private property rights have an incentive to act as resource stewards, few studies have tested this empirically. This paper asks whether private rights-owners were more conservative with respect to their management opinions than nonrights-owners in five Australian abalone (Haliotis spp.) fisheries. Multiple regression analyses were used to link opinions to demographic, economic, and attitudinal variables. In contrast to standard economic assumptions, nonrights-owners suggested more conservative catch limits than did rights-owners, confirming qualitative observations of behavior in management workshops. Differing views about the condition of the resource and differing levels of experience contributed to these results. The first of its kind, this study directly demonstrates that private rights do not necessarily promote the greatest level of stewardship. This has substantial implications for how natural resources are governed globally, but also warns against applying simplistic behavioral assumptions to complex social-ecological systems

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Purging the Frontier from our Mind: Crafting a New Fisheries Policy

Cited by 33 publications

References 15 publications

Existential fisheries dependence: Remaining on the map through fishing

Existential fisheries dependence: Remaining on the map through fishing

Of Fish and Fishermen: Shifting Societal Baselines to Reduce Environmental Harm in Fisheries

Using Private Rights to Manage Natural Resources: Is Stewardship Linked to Ownership?

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