Establishing a governance threshold in small-scale fisheries to achieve sustainability

Alba Aguión, Elena Ojea, Lucía García-Flórez, Teresa Cruz, Joxe Mikel Garmendia, Dominique Davoult (), Henrique Queiroga, Antonella Rivera, José Luis Acuña-Fernández and Gonzalo Macho
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Alba Aguión: Universidade de Vigo
Elena Ojea: Universidade de Vigo
Teresa Cruz: Universidade de Évora = University of Évora [Portugal]
Dominique Davoult: ADMM - Adaptation et diversité en milieu marin - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - SBR - Station biologique de Roscoff = Roscoff Marine Station - SU - Sorbonne Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Henrique Queiroga: Universidade de Aveiro = University of Aveiro
José Luis Acuña-Fernández: Universidad de Oviedo = University of Oviedo
Gonzalo Macho: Universidade de Vigo

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Abstract: The lack of effective governance is a major concern in small-scale fisheries. The implementation of governance that encompasses the three pillars of sustainability (social, economic, and ecological) is still a worldwide challenge. We examined nine stalked barnacle fisheries ( Pollicipes pollicipes ) across Southwest Europe to better understand the relationship between governance elements and sustainability. Our results show that nested spatial scales of management, the access structure, co-management, and fisher's participation in monitoring and surveillance promote sustainability. However, it is not the mere presence of these elements but their level of implementation that drives sustainability. Efforts should be placed in the accomplishment of a minimum combination of local scales of management, access rights through individual quotas, instructive-consultative co-management and functional participation. Surpassing this threshold in future governance structures will start to adequately promote social, economic and ecologically sustainability in small-scale fisheries.

Keywords: Co-management; Governance; Small-scale fisheries; Sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Published in AMBIO: A Journal of Environment and Society, inPress, ⟨10.1007/s13280-021-01606-x⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/s13280-021-01606-x

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