Finding the way out of Escher´s staircase: alternative management for sustainable fisheries
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The management of fisheries has historically focused on maintaining maximum sustained yields of single species. This approach generally ignored the broader social-ecological context that consists of coupled systems of people and nature, and resulted in the overexploitation of many fisheries globally, including many in Latin America. There are severe negative repercussion of overfishing, on both ecosystems and humans that rely on food and income provided by fisheries. Traditional management schemes based on maximizing should be replaced with approaches that explicitly recognize the coupling of social and ecological systems. We suggest a resilience approach that focuses on tradeoffs as a means of guaranteeing outputs over a broad range of conditions and avoiding undesirable thresholds. Resilience approaches may on average produce lower annual yields, but are more likely to allow the continued provision of multiple goods and services. A resilience approach requires scientifically derived data and consistent monitoring, and will not be successful if feedbacks between ecosystems and humans are ignored. The words ―Fisheries‖ and ―Sustainability‖ do not comprise an oxymoron but a logical partnership in resilience management. People and institutions engaged in Latin-American fisheries management have an opportunity to lead in the development of sustainable fisheries management with a resilience-based approach. Here we describe such an approach, and the steps necessary to ensure success.
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Angeler, D. G. (2012). Finding the way out of Escher´s staircase: alternative management for sustainable fisheries. Revista Latinoamericana De Recursos Naturales, 8(2), 76-89. Retrieved from https://revista.itson.edu.mx/index.php/rlrn/article/view/203
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Forbes, B.C., Stammler, F., Kumpula, T., Meschtyb, N., Pjunen, A. y Kaarlejarvi, E. 2009. High resilience in the Yamal- Nenets social-ecological system, West Siberian Arctic, Russia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106: 22041-22048.
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Gunderson, L.H. y Holling, C.S. 2002. Panarchy: Understanding Tranformations in Human and Natural Systems. Island Press, Washington, D.C.
Hampshire, K., Bell, S. y Wallace, G. 2004. ―Real‖ poachers and predators: shades of meaning in local understanding of threats to fisheries. Society and Natural Resources, 17: 305- 318.
Hardin, G. 1968. The tragedy of the commons. Science, 162: 1243-1248.
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Johnston, F.D., Arlinghaus, R. y Dieckmann, U. 2010. Diversity and complexity of angler behavior drive socially optimal input and output regulations in a bioeconomic recreationalfisheries model. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 67: 1507-1531.
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Maiolo, J.R., Johnson, J. y Griffith, D. 1992. Applications of social science theory to fisheries management: three examples. Society and Natural Resources, 5: 391-407.
Marshall, N.A. y Marshall, P.A. 2007. Conceptualizing and operationalizing social resilience within commercial fisheries in northern Australia. Ecology and Society, 12(1): 1.
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Masood, E. 1997. Fisheries science: all at sea when it comes to politics? Nature, 386: 105-106.
McFarlan, B.L. y Boxall, P.C. 1996. Participation in wildlife conservation by birdwatchers. Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 1: 1-14.
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Olsson, P. y Folke, C. 2004. Adaptive comanagement for building resilience in social-ecological systems. Environmental Management, 34: 75-90.
Peterson, G., Allen, C.R. y Holling, C.S. 1998. Ecological resilience, biodiversity and scale. Ecosystems, 1: 6-18.
Peterson, G.D., Cumming, G.S. y Carpenter, S.R. 2003. Scenario planning: a tool for conservation in an uncertain world. Conservation Biology, 17: 358-366
Petr, T. 1994. Intensification of reservoir fisheries in tropical and subtropical countries. Internationale Revue der gesamten Hydrobiologie, 79: 131- 138.
Roe, E. 1996. Why ecosystem management can’t work without social science: an example form the California northern spotted owl controversy. Environmental Management, 20: 667-674.
Schaefer, M.B. 1954. Some aspects of the dynamics of populations important to the management of the commercial marine fisheries. International Pacific Salmon Fishery Commission Bulletin, 4: 27-56.
Scheffer, M. 1997. Ecology of Shallow Lakes. London, Chapman and Hall.
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Sutinen, J.G., y Kuperan, K. 1999. A socio-economic theory of regulatory compliance. International Journal of Social Economics, 26: 174-193.
Vaske, J.J. y Donnelly, M.P. 1999. A value-attitude-behavior model predicting wildland preservation voting intentions. Society and Natural Resources, 12: 523-537.
Walker, B., y Meyers, J.A. 2004. Thresholds in ecological and social–ecological systems: a developing database. Ecology and Society, 9(2): 3. http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol9/iss2/art3/
Walters, C.J. y Martell, S.J.D. 2004. Fisheries Ecology and Management. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
Wardwell, D. y Allen, C.R. 2009. Variability in population abundance is associated with thresholds between scaling regimes. Ecology and Society, 14(2): 42.
Wehrtmann, I.S. y Nielsen-Muñoz, V. 2009. The deepwater fishery along the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, Central America. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 37: 543-554.
Worm, B., Barbier, E.B., Beaumont, N., 2006. Impacts of biodiversity loss on ocean ecosystem services. Science, 314: 787-790.
Zellmer, S., y Gunderson, L. 2009. Why resilience may not always be a good thing: lessons in ecosystem restoration from Glen Canyon and the Everglades. Nebraska Law Review, 87: 893-949.