The rebuilding imperative in fisheries: Clumsy solutions for a wicked problem?

An Interactive Governance and Fish Chain Approach to Fisheries Rebuilding: A Case Study of the Northern Gulf Cod in Eastern Canada

“…The latter is particularly important given that fisheries, especially small-scale, contribute significantly to food and livelihood security (Song and Khan 2011). The challenges of meeting sustainable fisheries partly stems from a management approach that emphasizes single species rather than multispecies approaches (Rice et al 2003), and inadequate local governing capacity toward environmental and global economic changes (Khan and Neis 2010;Perry et al 2011). In the case of collapsed fisheries, rebuilding efforts are highly contested with numerous stakeholder conflicts because of disagreements as to what caused the collapse and how best to restore fisheries to sustainable levels (Charles 1992;.…”

“…There is relatively little focus, however, on the essential governance mechanisms that might be required to achieve rebuilding (Ommer et al 2007;Khan and Neis 2010). These challenges still persist as reflected in the high percentage of commercial fisheries that require rebuilding on a global scale (Worm et al 2009;FAO 2012).…”

"The fishery went away": The impacts of long-term fishery closures on young people's experience and perception of fisheries employment in Newfoundland coastal communities

“…Sumaila (2004) has argued for the integration of an intergenerational perspective in traditional cost-benefit analyses of fisheries to identify the benefits and allocate the costs of efforts to rebuild stocks across generations. Likewise, Khan and Neis (2010) make the point that efforts to rebuild fish stocks must be paired with attention to the http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss3/art6/ next generations and communities as beneficiaries. Here, we focus on the dynamics (experiences and perceptions of youth) that might contribute to the resiliency of the next generation of fisheries workers.…”

“…In the case of Newfoundland and Labrador, young people have fewer employment options in fisheries than previous generations. In the last 20 years, the fishing industry has experienced declines in employment in the harvesting and processing sectors, a reduction of 35.2% and 50.8% between 1989and 2010, respectively (MOU Steering Committee 2011. These declines are due to plant closures, the reduced number of fishing enterprises, professionalization mechanisms that restrict fish harvester membership, and the increased costs of enterprises (Power 2005, 2008, Neis et al 2013.…”

Conclusions: Reframing the Possibilities for Natural and Social Science Dialogue on the Economic History of Natural Resources

“…The move to an EAF has expanded this focus to also consider issues such as food web interactions, habitat considerations, and the effects of bycatch, as well as moving to participatory and spatial management approaches (Ommer et al 2012). This broader focus means that where traditionally fisheries scientists' main concern was to apply population assessment models to determine, albeit unsuccessfully, how many fish could be caught and to find ways to limit access to the fishery resource to a manageable few, fisheries management problems have become a good deal more complex (Jentoft andChuenpagdee 2009, Khan andNeis 2010). Complexity, however, can quickly become overwhelming and is an ongoing source of frustration for resource managers, who, while grappling with conflicting management objectives, need to operationalize fisheries management decisions (Paterson and Petersen 2010).…”