Sustainability of the Juan Fernández lobster fishery (Chile) and the perils of generic science-based prescriptions

Ernst, Billy; Chamorro, Julio; Manríquez, Pablo; Orensanz, José María; Parma, Ana M.; Porobić, Javier; Román, Catalina

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.08.002

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“…The species distribution is continuous from Southeastern Brazil to Argentina, and the Río de la Plata estuary is an important spawning area (Vasconcellos and Haimovici 2006). Although Principle 1B applies to fishing resources (e.g., Gelcich et al 2006;Ernst et al 2013), in many cases, unclear boundaries of mobile fishing resources are the rule rather than the exception (e.g., Pinkerton and Weinstein 1995;Fleischman et al 2014). According to Principle 2B, the benefits obtained by users from a commons, via their participation in collective action, as determined by appropriation rules, should be proportional to inputs in the form of labour, material, or money, as determined by provision rules (Ostrom 1990;Cox et al 2010).…”

Section: Unfulfilled Principles In the Piriápolis And Paraty Fisheriesmentioning

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“…It is well known in the commons literature that resource users, such as small-scale fishers, are capable of managing their resources under certain circumstances (e.g., Ostrom 1990;Agrawal 2001;Dietz et al 2002;Cinner et al 2013;Ernst et al 2013). Three kinds of "pure" property rights regimes -common property, private property, and state (or government) property -have all been associated with both success and failure, although top-down state property regimes are seldom associated with successful management (Feeny et al 1990;Ostrom 2005).…”

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Towards adaptive co-management of small-scale fisheries in Uruguay and Brazil: lessons from using Ostrom’s design principles

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Berkes

2015

Maritime Studies

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The literature on commons has established the validity and significance of Elinor Ostrom's design principles for collective action. Can these principles be used to guide policies and initiatives towards adaptive co-management? We analyze this idea by using two case studies, Piriápolis (Uruguay) and Paraty (Brazil). Both cases are small-scale fisheries, and both have been experiencing a social-ecological crisis in a context of prevailing top-down government management. However, there are signs that government policies are moving towards participatory governance. The objective of this article is to identify opportunities and barriers to adaptive co-management of small-scale fisheries in Uruguay and Brazil using Ostrom's design principles for guidance. Both case studies partially meet seven of the eleven design principles (as amended by Cox and colleagues), but do not fulfill four. The analysis of the fisheries using Ostrom's principles sheds light on the opportunities and barriers to adaptive co-management in three categories: resource system, resource users, and governance system. Barriers include long-standing conflicts between small-scale fishers and government agencies, and between small and large-scale fisheries sectors. Nevertheless, recent initiatives involving participatory approaches to research and management show potential to improve compliance with several principles. Two weaknesses of using Ostrom's principles for the analysis of the cases were a lack of attention to social learning and the exclusion of external drivers.

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Towards adaptive co-management of small-scale fisheries in Uruguay and Brazil: lessons from using Ostrom’s design principles

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Berkes

2015

Maritime Studies

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“…A number of studies have analyzed RESEX areas using Ostrom's (1990) design principles (da Silva 2004, Le Tourneau and Beaufort 2017, Nobre et al 2017, and in similar non-RESEX areas (Tebet et al 2018), but to our knowledge this study is the first to apply the SESF. The framework is well suited for the study of smallscale fisheries (Basurto et al 2013, Partelow 2015 with numerous case study applications in the literature (Schlüter and Madrigal 2012, Ernst et al 2013, Leslie et al 2015, Partelow and Boda 2015, Torres Guevara et al 2016. Few studies have demonstrated the value of the SESF as a tool for qualitative research as a coding framework for the organization and analysis of qualitative data (e.g., Ban et al 2015, Hoogesteger 2015, particularly in smallscale fisheries and coastal systems (e.g., Lozano and Heinen 2016, London et al 2017, Partelow et al 2018b.…”

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Mangroves, fishers, and the struggle for adaptive comanagement: applying the social-ecological systems framework to a marine extractive reserve (RESEX) in Brazil

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Glaser²,

Arce³

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ABSTRACT. Brazil has a network of marine extractive reserves (RESEX), a form of marine protected area (MPA) using comanagement. The RESEX program aims to bring traditionally marginalized populations with natural resource dependent livelihoods into national development processes by empowering them to participate in governance and steward biodiversity conservation. We apply the socialecological systems framework (SESF) and collective action theory to diagnose challenges for comanagement in the Caete-Teperacu marine RESEX near Bragança, Brazil, a multiuse mangrove estuary supporting a small-scale crab fishery. We conducted key informant interviews and build on over 20 years of research in the region to provide an overarching analysis of the challenges facing comanagement. We describe the variables from the SESF in the case context and find that many social and ecological variables interact in clusters over time, and these clusters can be identified as themes, including (1) social and political momentum supporting the RESEX; (2) shifting perceptions of local residents and fishers; (3) patron-client relationships and social-ecological traps; (4) challenges with institutional fit; and (5) the interactions between harvesting closures, compensation, and dependence on local natural resources. Furthermore, we use collective action theory to help explain the role that each variable plays in either hindering or enabling successful governance. Our findings suggest that institutional resilience is needed to make RESEX adaptive to shifting social and political momenta. It could do this by providing more platforms for communication, deliberation, and knowledge exchange among the relevant actors. We believe our findings reflect broader challenges facing RESEX implementation throughout Brazil, and lessons can be learned for MPAs facing difficulties with the implementation of comanagement worldwide.

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“…Since its first publication (Ostrom 2007), the SES framework has been updated (Ostrom 2009(Ostrom , 2011McGinnis and Ostrom 2014), and enhanced through the provision of clear criteria for ordering concepts into tiers, refining the existing concepts, adding new concepts, defining outcome metrics, and representing the dynamics in the framework (Hinkel et al 2014). With regard to fisheries, it has been instrumental in the analysis of sustainability and cooperation among fishermen, using different methodological approaches which range from case studies (Basurto and Ostrom 2009;Aswani et al 2013;Ernst et al 2013) to largescale studies (Gutiérrez et al 2011;Cinner et al 2012;MacNeil and Cinner 2013).…”

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Collective action in a tropical estuarine lagoon: adapting Ostrom’s SES framework to Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, Colombia

Torres-Guevara

Schlüter

López

2016

International Journal of the Commons

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Abstract:The paper contributes to the social-ecological systems literature by adapting and using Elinor Ostrom's Social-Ecological System (SES) framework in the context of a coastal ecosystem. We modified the SES framework in the case of the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta (CGSM), an estuarine lagoon in the Caribbean coast of Colombia. The ecological importance of CGSM and its species is undeniable. This paper aims to understand why collective action for a sustainable use of CGSM's fishery resources has not taken place. In order to respond to that question, we created new variables within the social, economic, and political settings of the SES framework. The results show that the fishers' fear of the indiscriminate and strong violence that illegal armed groups have inflicted on them since the 1960s and the economic development in the Colombian Caribbean region help explain the lack of collective action.Keywords: Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, collective action, Colombia, common-pool resources, conflict, fisheries, Social-Ecological System (SES) framework Collective action in a tropical estuarine lagoon 335 Acknowledgement: We thank INVEMAR's researchers, especially Efraín Viloria and Myriam Vargas for providing outstanding support for this research. Special thanks to Micaela Kulesz for her support and discussion in the early stages of this paper. We appreciate very much comments from Ana Maria Roldan on an early version of this manuscript. We are very thankful to CGSM's fishermen, in particular fishermen from Tasajera, because without their help this research would not have been possible. We would like also to express our gratitude to INVEMAR's field assistants in CGSM, in particular to Vladimir Carbonó for his valuable and constant support. Likewise, we want to thank Rubén Vásquez and Alexander Acuña for all their assistance in the field when we conducted the survey. We also appreciate comments received in an early version of this paper from participants in the WOW5 Conference at Indiana University. We value the editing work done by Joanna Broderick. Finally, we would like to thank two anonymous reviewers who have contributed valuable comments. This research was funded and supported by the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT) and the German-Colombian Center of Excellence in Marine Sciences (CEMarin).

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Sustainability of the Juan Fernández lobster fishery (Chile) and the perils of generic science-based prescriptions

Cited by 44 publications

References 29 publications

Towards adaptive co-management of small-scale fisheries in Uruguay and Brazil: lessons from using Ostrom’s design principles

Towards adaptive co-management of small-scale fisheries in Uruguay and Brazil: lessons from using Ostrom’s design principles

Mangroves, fishers, and the struggle for adaptive comanagement: applying the social-ecological systems framework to a marine extractive reserve (RESEX) in Brazil

Collective action in a tropical estuarine lagoon: adapting Ostrom’s SES framework to Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, Colombia

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