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{"title":"Environmental risk perception and adaptative strategies in a neotropical fishing population: Socioeconomic aspects and community participation","authors":"Paulo Wanderley de Melo ,&nbsp;Arleu Barbosa Viana-Junior ,&nbsp;Maria Elisabeth de Araújo ,&nbsp;José da Silva Mourão","doi":"10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106623","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106623","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rapid global transformations are increasing the vulnerability of tropical coastal environments and so there is a need to understand how traditional populations perceive environmental risks and their adaptative coping strategies to integrate their knowledge into management practices. We conducted semi-structured interviews to characterize a population of artisanal fishers on the northeast coast of Brazil to assess their perception of risks and strategies. We modeled the effects of socioeconomic factors on perceptions and used graph theory to describe the interactions between risks and strategies. Male fishers with a higher educational level and supplementary income were those who perceived more environmental risks. Since the pattern we found was salient risks with more mentioning of strategies, and that the population itself identified participatory strategies, we suggest that environmental management and policy proposals promote community participation aiming at identifying solutions which are consistent with the local socio-environmental reality.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48427,"journal":{"name":"Marine Policy","volume":"175 ","pages":"Article 106623"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143402826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The illusion of social improvements: A case study of the role of Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs) in fairwashing the UK Nephrops fishery","authors":"Jessica L. Decker Sparks ,&nbsp;Natalie Somers ,&nbsp;Chris Williams ,&nbsp;Michael O’Brien ,&nbsp;Bethany Jackson","doi":"10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106629","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106629","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Fishery improvement projects (FIPs) are attempting to manage the labor dimensions of social responsibility through non-binding mechanisms that directly contradict the tenets of worker-centered approaches. Using the UK Nephrops FIP as a case study, we combined data from worker grievances reported to trade unions, government agencies, and researchers to demonstrate how the FIP concealed several cases of potential forced labor, in addition to other labor abuses, from the retailers and buyers rewarding them with market access. Linking the failure of the UK Nephrops FIP to core components of the FIP model such as reliance on self-implemented risk assessments, frequent alterations of conditions and deadlines to be met, and the absence of root cause analyses, findings suggest that FIPs operating in industrialized fisheries highly reliant on migrant labor are fairwashing their purported achievements. Consequently, retailers and buyers must forego FIPs and instead commit to supporting worker-driven binding alternatives to achieve their social responsibility objectives, particularly under increasing human rights due diligence regulations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48427,"journal":{"name":"Marine Policy","volume":"175 ","pages":"Article 106629"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143387635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Data sharing in the fisheries: Exploring the willingness to share data in the Norwegian fishing fleet","authors":"Signe A. Sønvisen ,&nbsp;Grethe Lilleng ,&nbsp;Tore Syversen ,&nbsp;Dorthea Mathilde Kristin Vatn","doi":"10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106620","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106620","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the motivations and barriers to data sharing in the Norwegian fishing fleet, where data-sharing practices are increasingly recognized for their potential benefits for both business and resource management. Based on semi-structured interviews and an online survey of Norwegian fishers, findings reveal widespread reluctance among fishers to share data openly due to fears of loss of competitive advantage, free-riding, congestion and conflicts on fishing grounds, and overharvesting. However, conditions such as trust in the system, reciprocal data exchange, anonymity, publication delays, and restricted access to data were identified as critical balancing factors for fostering willingness to share data. While some fishers recognize the benefits of data sharing, particularly for compliance and knowledge transfer, concerns about power imbalances and the inequitable distribution of benefits persist. This study underscores the need for tailored initiatives that address fishers' diverse needs and contexts, balancing transparency with privacy and promoting trust.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48427,"journal":{"name":"Marine Policy","volume":"175 ","pages":"Article 106620"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143387636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fishermen’s perceptions of negative events affecting fishing activities. A case study of a Vietnamese purse seine fishery","authors":"Nga Thi Hong Cao","doi":"10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106628","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106628","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper focuses on fishermen’s perceptions of how environmental and social-economic factors influence their lives and activities. A sample of Vietnamese purse seine fishermen were asked about their perceptions of changes in heavy waves, bad weather, storms/tropical cyclones, high temperatures, heavy rains, fish abundance, costs of fishing, suitability of fishing gear and boats, health, crew access and the availability of capital. Uncertainties related to these factors sum up the fishermen’s major concerns. Most fishermen believe that the frequency and intensity of storms/tropical cyclones are increasing in Vietnam. Almost all of the surveyed fishermen expected the frequency and severity of rainfall and the average temperature to increase in the future and fish stock availabilities to decline. However, climate change is not expected to be among the most important negative factors in the future. Other factors, such as cost of fishing, health conditions, fishing gear and boats and the resource situation represent greater concerns among fishermen. Most of the worries fishermen currently have are confirmed by recent local observations when they are available. However, increasing frequencies of storms and precipitation were not observed, while the fishermen claimed such factors create problems for their current fishing activities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48427,"journal":{"name":"Marine Policy","volume":"175 ","pages":"Article 106628"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143387634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring evidence of cascading change towards stewardship in the Japanese seafood industry","authors":"Shun Kageyama ,&nbsp;Madlen Sobkowiak ,&nbsp;Henrik Österblom ,&nbsp;Robert Blasiak","doi":"10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106626","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106626","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>There is a growing global demand for a more sustainable seafood industry, and pre-competitive initiatives have emerged on multiple continents to meet this demand. Such initiatives could have “cascading effects,” suggesting that their impacts may extend beyond their direct participants to effect broader, industry-wide change. To date, little research has been conducted to determine whether pre-competitive initiatives are triggering such cascading changes, in part as a result of the limitations of existing methods for monitoring and quantifying such impacts. This study represents a methodological advance and presents an empirical analysis of potentially cascading corporate sustainability engagement, using the initiative Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship (SeaBOS) and the Japanese seafood industry as a case study. The study first provides an overview of the sustainability reporting landscape within the Japanese seafood industry. It then examines the evidence for the impacts of SeaBOS on Japan’s 17 largest seafood companies, including three SeaBOS member companies (Maruha Nichiro Corporation, Nissui – or Nippon Suisan Kaisha, and Kyokuyo Co. Ltd.). The results illustrate that the Japanese seafood industry is characterized by diverse company profiles, a wide range and scale of factors influencing corporate sustainability, and varying performance on sustainability across companies. Due to the inherent complexity of the seafood industry, determining whether the SeaBOS initiative has triggered cascading effects or industry-level transformation is challenging. However, there are indications of cascading stewardship effects: SeaBOS member companies have been early movers in the Japanese seafood industry, and other companies have followed similar pathways. Further analysis of these cascading effects will require diverse methodological approaches, continuous monitoring, and increased transparency and disclosure from companies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48427,"journal":{"name":"Marine Policy","volume":"175 ","pages":"Article 106626"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143378327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"","authors":"Ariel Stenek","doi":"10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106625","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106625","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48427,"journal":{"name":"Marine Policy","volume":"175 ","pages":"Article 106625"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143377572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Japan’s withdrawal from the IWC: An explanation","authors":"Yasuhiro Sanada ,&nbsp;Ayako Okubo ,&nbsp;Isao Sakaguchi","doi":"10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106595","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106595","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article aims to provide a comprehensive explanation for Japan’s withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and research-based pelagic whaling operations. While the key factors underlying these withdrawals were the low profitability of special permit whaling (SPW) due to shrinking whale meat demand and the aging of pelagic whaling vessels, these alone cannot fully explain Japan’s action as it did not need to leave the IWC if it were willing to end SPW. Therefore, additional factors need to be considered to explain Japan’s withdrawal, such as changes in domestic political processes. First, the decline in the profitability of SPW led to the disintegration of the “iron triangle” composed of bureaucrats, industry, and lawmakers that had provided political and financial support for SPW in the Antarctic. Japan decided to leave the Antarctic Ocean because fisheries bureaucrats were less willing to provide the large subsidies needed to continue SPW, which included whaling fleet replacement costs. Furthermore, the final decision to leave the IWC was attributable to the strengthened power of politicians in Japanese decision-making processes. Second, with the weakened influence of the whaling industry, whose core interest lied in the continuation of SPW, the relative clout of the ruling politicians increased. Finally, the prime minister’s power in the decision-making process was further strengthened, enabling the final decision to leave the IWC.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48427,"journal":{"name":"Marine Policy","volume":"175 ","pages":"Article 106595"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143377569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Small-scale fishers’ perception of risks in Indonesia’s cross-border region of North Maluku","authors":"Senia Febrica ,&nbsp;Herson Keradjaan ,&nbsp;Laely Nurhidayah ,&nbsp;Michael Gustaf","doi":"10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106624","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106624","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article assesses Indonesian small-scale fishers’ perception of risk. Indonesia is the second largest fish producer globally, the largest tuna producing country, and one of the top ten fish and seafood exporters in the world. Small-scale fisheries sector in Indonesia is the greatest contributor of outputs to national and international seafood markets. Thus, fisheries risk in Indonesia’s small-scale fisheries is of some import to the international community because it has direct effects on global food security and supply chains. Combining a survey of 300 fishers and semi-structured interviews, this article focuses on identifying and comparing the full range of fisheries risk as perceived by small-scale fishers working in Tobelo and Morotai regions of North Maluku, an Indonesian province located at the border between Indonesia and two neighbouring countries of the Philippines and Palau. These include risks posed by work accident, ocean crimes, and climate change. The findings show that fishers deemed that accident at work posed the most immediate threat to their livelihood and well-being. Climate change has been identified as second highest risks. Despite the presence of ocean crimes, fishers do not deem these crimes as posing immediate risks to them. However, fishers connect crimes that affect the environment with the decline of fish stocks and their income.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48427,"journal":{"name":"Marine Policy","volume":"175 ","pages":"Article 106624"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143377455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Race, Indigenous knowledge, and a relational alternative in fisheries policy research","authors":"Nicole Latulippe","doi":"10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106600","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106600","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper responds to the contemporary academic and policy interest in bridging, integrating, and co-producing knowledge across Indigenous and non-Indigenous difference. I draw on my work on fish and fish relations with Nipissing First Nation (NFN), a Nbisiing Anishinaabeg community that governs its fishing activities according to community-derived law. In the form of critical policy analysis, I respond to three core research questions driving a national research partnership on Indigenous and Western knowledge systems in fisheries governance: (1) How and to what extent are different knowledge systems incorporated into fisheries governance and processes by Indigenous nations in Canada at national, regional and local scales? (2) Can varied Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) be used to improve the effectiveness of fisheries governance at national, regional, and local scales in Canada and internationally? (3) Can various IKS be used to inform and enhance an ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management in Canada and internationally, given the complexities of ecosystems and additional uncertainties posed by climate-induced changes? Indigenous knowledge certainly could and already does improve the effectiveness of fisheries governance in Canada, but this occurs despite the dominant resource regulatory regime. At Lake Nipissing, NFN leadership and an exceptional case of provincial recognition and support for Nbisiing Anishinaabeg law and jurisdiction have resulted in the recovery of the lake’s most sought-after fish population. Ultimately, I argue against “knowing” racialized forms of difference and conclude with an alternative, relational approach to fisheries policy and knowledge research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48427,"journal":{"name":"Marine Policy","volume":"175 ","pages":"Article 106600"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143203998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Regulation of the Caribbean red snapper fishery on the Amazon continental shelf: 60 years of conflict between conservation and exploitation","authors":"Alex Garcia Cavalleiro de Macedo Klautau ,&nbsp;Rafael Anaisce das Chagas ,&nbsp;Paulo Emílio Costa Santos ,&nbsp;Bruno Barbosa Iespa ,&nbsp;Israel Hidenburgo Aniceto Cintra ,&nbsp;Ana Patricia Barros Cordeiro ,&nbsp;Wagner Cesar Rosa dos Santos ,&nbsp;Jose Augusto Negreiros Aragão ,&nbsp;Carlos Eduardo Matos Carvalho Bastos ,&nbsp;Flávio de Almeida Alves-Junior ,&nbsp;Beatrice Padovani Ferreira ,&nbsp;Bianca Bentes da Silva","doi":"10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106622","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106622","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Caribbean red snapper (<em>Lutjanus purpureus</em>) is a fish of the family Lutjanidae that occurs in the Caribbean and western Atlantic between southern Cuba and the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco, in northeastern Brazil. This snapper is one of the target species most exploited by commercial fisheries in this region. It was first fished in 1960s on the oceanic banks off Recife, in Pernambuco, and Fortaleza, in Ceará state. In the subsequent decades, the Brazilian red snapper stocks have undergone constant fishing pressure and a number of distinct depletion events. The fishery currently operates on the Amazon continental shelf, in addition to northeastern Brazil, and supplies primarily the North American market. Despite the continuous and ongoing management of red snapper fisheries in Brazil, there is considerable evidence that the legal regulations that govern the development of this sector are not adhered to, which, in addition to a twelve-fold increase in landings between 1960 and 2013, led the species to be classified as a Vulnerable by ordinance number 445 of 2014 of the Brazilian Ministry for the Environment (MMA). A number of studies have shown that the species is overexploited, with size at first maturity (L₅₀) being reduced from 43.2 cm in 2002 to 32.1 cm in 2022, and self-reported records 50 % below export volumes. We used snapper productivity data from 1990 onward, which refer to phase 4 of the fishery, that now operates on the Amazon and Northeastern continental shelves. We used four public databases of fishery productivity that included red snapper as a category or record descriptor for the present study: ComexStat, CEPNOR, NOAA, and the ‘Painel do Pargo’ (red snapper panel), and government websites were also consulted to locate management ordinances for the species. We found the maintenance of logbooks, the satellite tracking of vessels, and the control of fishing effort are mandatory but not carried out by the Brazilian red snapper fishery, and there is evidence of discrepancy between NOAA and ComexStat data and exportaxion and importation data. Besides, the lack of compliance with the official regulations on the part of the fishing industry, and the reduced levels of government monitoring have resulted in <em>Lutjanus purpureus</em> being included on the Brazilian list of threatened species. Those results demonstrates that to recover the Brazilian <em>Lutjanus purpureus</em> stocks, government institutions will need to develop effective continuous monitoring strategies for the fishery, which will permit the compilation of good quality data and, above all, they must strengthen their capacity for the control and inspection of this sector’s activities, to guarantee compliance with the regulations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48427,"journal":{"name":"Marine Policy","volume":"174 ","pages":"Article 106622"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143155018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}