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Using stakeholder’s perspectives of ‘Managed Access’ to guide management efforts in small-scale fisheries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2021

Chad A Bowman Open the ORCID record for Chad A Bowman [Opens in a new window] ,
Stephen C Mangi  and
Hazel A Oxenford
Chad A Bowman*
Affiliation:
Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES), University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, BB11000, Barbados
Stephen C Mangi
Affiliation:
Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (Cefas), Unit 1, 1st Floor, Plymouth Fish Quay, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 0LH, UK MRAG Ltd, 18 Queen Street, London, W1J 5PN, UK
Hazel A Oxenford
Affiliation:
Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES), University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, BB11000, Barbados
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Author for correspondence: Chad A Bowman, Email: bowmanchad10@gmail.com
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Summary

Controlling and monitoring fishing effort and understanding human perspectives on fisheries management strategies are paramount to the successful management and sustainability of fisheries. Open-access fishing, which is commonplace in the small-scale fisheries (SSFs) of developing countries, poses severe challenges to management, and to address many of these challenges, Belize implemented a country-wide rights-based fishery (RBF) management strategy known as Managed Access (MA). This study uses Q methodology to explore the perspectives of four key stakeholder groups on the early impacts of the strategy, revealing five distinct perspectives. Perspective 1 supported MA but believed some components needed revision. Perspective 2 had high confidence in MA and expected improvements with financial investments. Perspective 3 did not believe in the strategy and expressed frustration with it not protecting fishers’ rights. Perspective 4 captured the biological concerns not addressed by the strategy, while Perspective 5 focused on the strategy’s inability to make the fisheries more profitable thus far. The different perspectives indicate that MA will be unlikely to meet its objectives without more financial investment in enforcement and stakeholder engagement, research and the strengthening of institutional capacity. This study contributes to the scarce scientific information on the early stages of RBF systems implementation in SSFs.

Keywords

Caribbean SIDSfisheries managementrights-based fisheriessmall-scale fisheriesterritorial use rights for fisheries
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Research Paper
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 48 , Issue 2 , June 2021 , pp. 100 - 109
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Foundation for Environmental Conservation

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