Transparency in fisheries governance: Achievements to date and challenges ahead

Guggisberg, Solène; Jaeckel, Aline; Stephens, Tim

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104639

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“…The stakeholders were asked three open questions: what they knew about DWF in the Malagasy EEZ (for fishers and NGOs), what were the actors and policies related to DWF (government officials) and what were their perspectives on the challenges and future regarding fishery management in Madagascar (all actors). The section on challenges is presented through the lens of institutional misfits [13] and transparency in fishery governance [14] as two complementary angles when looking at policy implementation in DWF. After the analysis of frameworks and challenges, a discussion section presents potential pathways towards improving DWF management.…”

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“…In this context and adding other factors such as geopolitics, managing DWF remains a challenge for Madagascar. The country suffers from various inadequacies between policy making, implementation and local realities, also known as misfits in the socio-ecological systems literature [13,33] as well as implementation challenges found in the literature of fishery management mainly around transparency and the challenge of fighting IUU fishing [14,34].…”

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“…In fishery management, a lack of transparency and accountability in DWF can constitute a substantial barrier in advancing sustainable fisheries [14,37,38]. In both the signing and the implementation of fishing access agreements, significant issues remain.…”

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Governing Distant-Water Fishing within the Blue Economy in Madagascar: Policy Frameworks, Challenges and Pathways

Andriamahefazafy

2023

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Madagascar’s vast oceanic space hosts distant-water fishing (DWF) fleets from Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Spain, France and others since the 1960s, making DWF a substantial component of the blue economy. Considering this extensive experience of managing DWF activities for more than 60 years, this paper explores the existing policy frameworks and challenges regarding managing DWF. The results show while it is well equipped legally, the country is struggling to implement its national policies and laws while continuing to adopt new management frameworks. This is due to a limited coherence on long-term policy making and policy implementation, resulting in a mismatch between the two, and a paradoxical vision that promotes DWF without the means to monitor fishing activities and their impacts. The existing institutional settings and governance frameworks make change possible in Madagascar’s approach to DWF. To improve the management of DWF, this paper outlines four pathways. These include (i) a greater attention on the implementation, harmonisation and evaluation of existing policies and projects; (ii) continuing efforts on transparency for DWF operations and contract negotiations; (iii) realigning aspirations and policies with local needs; and (iv) taking better advantage of measures adopted at the regional Indian Ocean level to improve national management of DWF. An efficient implementation of an improved policy and legal framework could contribute to strengthening the governance of DWF activities toward sustaining national benefits while preserving coastal livelihoods.

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Governing Distant-Water Fishing within the Blue Economy in Madagascar: Policy Frameworks, Challenges and Pathways

Andriamahefazafy

2023

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“…Numerous studies, including Chen et al (2023), Spijkers et al (2023), Jarvis and Young (2023), Guggisberg et al (2022), Okafor-Yarwood et al (2022), and Jentoft and Chuenpagdee (2022, have examined how poor governance and enforcement encourage over fisheries, the significance of sound policy for fisheries management, and various strategies for effective and sustained enforcement. Dudayev et al (2023), Kelkar and Arthur (2022), and others investigated the legal and policy status of the fisheries industry in Indonesia and India, respectively, and claimed that community partnership and co-management is the most suitable partnership to achieve an enabling environment for the sustainability of the fisheries industry in those countries.…”

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Nature of property rights and motivation for blue growth: An empirical evidence from the fisheries industry

Alsaleh,

Abdul‐Rahim,

Liu

et al. 2023

Natural Resources Forum

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If unauthorized resource use is prevented, managing marine resources by allocating property rights may match economic and environmental conservation incentives. However, because of the developing exploitation of marine resources and accompanying pollution, species' living conditions in Europe's waters are changing more quickly than before. By considering the roles of fisheries productivity, intellectual property rights, intellectual capital rights, market size, governance, and economic growth from 1990 to 2022, this paper aims to investigate the dynamic effect of property rights factors on the sustainability of the fisheries industry in 27 European countries. At higher quantiles, the findings showed a significant positive association between governance and fisheries sustainability adopting a new method, the MMQR with fixed effects, the Method of Moments Quantile Regression. In addition, in EU27 nations, the impact of intellectual property rights was favorable and statistically significant from the first to ninth quantiles. The findings show that the EU14 developed nations have more excellent governance and intellectual capital rights than the EU13 developing countries, significantly benefiting fisheries sustainability. In the same way that market size and economic growth condense fisheries sustainability in EU14 developed and EU13 developing countries, it has been discovered that intellectual property rights do the same across all quantiles, supporting the growth hypothesis for fisheries‐producing countries. The findings specifically show that the beneficial solid impact of intellectual property rights, market size, and economic development on the sustainability of fisheries is more significant in EU13 developing nations than in EU14 developed countries. These results provide policymakers with helpful information for promoting property rights aspects in EU14 and EU13 nations via effective green technologies in the fisheries sector to meet sustainable development objectives.

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“…However, fisheries governance regimes find difficult to determine policy at the national and international level. It is not just a matter of data availability (Guggisberg, 2022), but is also related to the lack of economic or human resources at the level of the administrations. At this level, the emphasis on biological and ecosystems indicators might not be addressing the essential issue of managing fisheries (Fabinyi, 2021).…”

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Developing a bottom-up approach with performance indicators for ocean governance and sustainability in the fisheries sector for United Nations interagency cooperation

Núñez-Sánchez

Rojas

2022

Marit. Technol. Res.

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Oceans provide sustainability for the planet and fisheries is a key sector operating in them, however the regulatory regime in regions such as the high seas is weak due to its lack of development and enforcement. Administrations may find difficult to combine different interests and cater for small communities while breaking ground in sustainability. This paper sets a bottom up approach for sustainability in fisheries after a consultation with Maritime Administrations from Africa, America and Oceania to set indicators to assist in the governance of the ocean in areas under the purview of FAO, ILO and IMO. These indicators were connected to the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and when further adjusted via interagency cooperation may assist developing and develop countries, to measure sustainability in their territorial waters and exclusive economic zones, supporting governance at all levels. They have the potential to be expanded to the high seas and integrate a top down approach consistent with the work of the UN and its agencies to fight illegal unreported and unregulated fishing. It is also demonstrated that sustainability analysis in the current agendas of the UN Agencies is possible.

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Transparency in fisheries governance: Achievements to date and challenges ahead

Cited by 17 publications

References 31 publications

Governing Distant-Water Fishing within the Blue Economy in Madagascar: Policy Frameworks, Challenges and Pathways

Governing Distant-Water Fishing within the Blue Economy in Madagascar: Policy Frameworks, Challenges and Pathways

Nature of property rights and motivation for blue growth: An empirical evidence from the fisheries industry

Developing a bottom-up approach with performance indicators for ocean governance and sustainability in the fisheries sector for United Nations interagency cooperation

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