Journal
CONSERVATION LETTERS
Volume 13, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12725
Keywords
compliance; enforcement; fisheries; framework; instrumental; legitimacy; motivations; norms; rules; small-scale
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- Pew Marine Fellowship
- Marine Stewardship Council
- Agencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo [FB0002]
- Becas Chile
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Understanding compliance with conservation rules is key for biodiversity conservation. Here, we assess compliance and its underlying motivations in a small-scale fishery in Chile. We adapt a framework originally developed for forestry to unpack compliance motivations at within-individual and between-individuals levels while accounting for contextual factors. We find that 92-100% fishers comply with temporal or gear rules, while only 3% comply with the quota limit. Legitimacy-based motivations are more important in explaining why individual fishers comply with temporal/gear rules than they are for compliance with the quota. At the between-individuals level, we find that normative motivations are significantly related to the degree of non-compliance with the quota. Contextual factors such as quota levels are key in explaining broader non-compliance patterns. Our results suggest that considering compliance at appropriate analytical levels is necessary to unpack motivations, guide local and national natural resource management policies, and move toward a better theory of compliance.
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