Journal
MARINE POLICY
Volume 135, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104826
Keywords
Stalked barnacle fishery; Poaching; Stakeholder workshop; Co-management; Territorial Use Rights for Fishing (TURFs); European Union
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Funding
- Agencia Estatal de Investigacion, Spain [PCIN-2016-120, PCIN-2016-063]
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia, Portugal [BIODIVERSA/0005/2015, BIODIVERSA/0006/2015]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France [ANR-16-EBI3-0006-01, ANR-16-EBI3-0006-02]
- FCT [UIDB/04292/2020, UIDP/50017/2020, UIDB/50017/2020, SFRH/BD/135872/2018]
- Severo Ochoa PhD program [PA-18-PF-BP17-184]
- FPU (Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades) [FPU201604258]
- Xunta de Galicia [ED481A-2020/199, 2018000201]
- Region Bretagne [SAD19047]
- Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad [PCIN-2016-063, PCIN2016-063, CTM2014-51935-R]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-16-EBI3-0006] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [BIODIVERSA/0006/2015, BIODIVERSA/0005/2015, SFRH/BD/135872/2018] Funding Source: FCT
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Fishery management varies greatly among regions in Europe, with poaching being a widespread and difficult-to-eradicate issue. Key management initiatives identified by stakeholders include granting exclusive access to resources to professional harvesters, increasing social capital among harvesters, and intensifying surveillance.
In January 2020, a stakeholder workshop was organized as a knowledge sharing strategy among European stalked barnacle fisheries. Management of this fishery differs greatly among regions and ranges from less organized and governed at large scales (>100 km, coasts of SW Portugal and Brittany in France) to highly participatory systems which are co-managed at small spatial scales (10's km and less, Galicia and Asturias). Discussions revealed that poaching is ubiquitous, hard to eradicate, and adapts to all types of management. The stakeholders identified some key management initiatives in the fight against poaching: granting professional harvesters with exclusive access to the resource, increasing social capital among harvesters through tenure systems (e.g. Territorial Use Rights in Fisheries) that empower them as stewards of their resource and intensification of surveillance with the active participation of the harvesters. Furthermore, increased cooperation between fishers associations and regional fisheries authorities, improved legal frameworks, adoption of new technologies and the implementation of market-based solutions can also help coping with this systemic problem.
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