The end of shark finning? Impacts of declining catches and fin demand on coastal community livelihoods     

《Marine Policy》2017

For several decades, fishing sharks for their fins has provided important livelihoods for eastern Indonesian coastal communities that fish the Halmahera, Arafura and Timor Seas. Fishery and interview data collected in 2012-13 from three case studies on the islands of Seram, Aru and Rote were used to examine changes in shark fishers’ livelihoods over the preceding 20 years. While recent declines in catches and shark fin prices have had a substantial impact on fishers’ livelihoods, the fishery's low visibility in some areas of its geographic range and its political complexity in general have meant that government and international development agencies have largely been unaware of this impact. Many respondents remembered the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997-98 and the turn of the millennium as a time when sharks were still abundant and shark fin prices high, but were concerned about the on-going fall of shark fin prices since March 2012. High-value species, particularly guitarfish, hammerhead and sandbar sharks were most affected, losing up to 40% of their pre-2012 value. These changes, combined with the loss of fishing grounds, few attractive options for alternative income and restrictive debt relationships with shark fin bosses, have led some fishers to resort to high-risk activities such as blast fishing, illegal transboundary fishing, and people smuggling. This paper examines the multi-layered causes and consequences of fishers’ decision-making in response to adverse changes in their fishery, and explores options and obstacles to pursuing livelihoods that carry lower environmental, financial and personal risks.  相似文献   

渔业生产者参与实施捕捞限额制度意愿的影响因素研究          下载免费PDF全文

陆佼  杨正勇 《海洋开发与管理》2017,34(10):23-27

文章以上海市、浙江省和山东省113户渔业生产者的问卷调研数据为基础,通过运用Logistic回归模型分析渔业生产者参与实施捕捞限额制度意愿的影响因素。研究表明,年龄、受教育水平、渔船总功率、年均捕捞量、捕捞收入与家庭总收入比例、举报奖励额与超额价值比例以及年监管次数均对渔业生产者参与实施捕捞限额制度的意愿产生显著影响。基于实证研究结果,提出应加大渔业培训力度,切实控制渔船功率,暂不设立举报机制以及结合目前的投入控制制度推行循序渐进、逐步严格的监管机制等建议,以提高渔业生产者参与实施捕捞限额制度的意愿,为制定有效的渔业资源管理制度提供参考依据,推进渔业现代化改革。  相似文献   

我国远洋渔业发展阶段特征、演进动因与趋势预测          下载免费PDF全文

刘芳  于会娟 《海洋开发与管理》2017,34(9):59-64

随着近海渔业资源的枯竭及近海养护政策的进一步实施,发展远洋渔业成为增加海水产品供给、改善居民膳食结构、实现我国渔业可持续发展的战略选择。文章回顾了新中国成立以来我国远洋渔业的发展历程:按照产量、产值、作业海域、远洋渔业产业结构等指标对其进行阶段划分,依次分为空白期(1949—1971年)、积极筹备期(1972—1984年)、起步期(1985—1990年)、快速发展期(1991—1997年)、调整期(1998—2006年)、优化期(2007年至今)6个阶段,并分析其阶段特征;发现国际渔业合作、远洋技术革新、近海渔业政策和政府补贴引导构成了远洋渔业不同阶段的演进动因。结合当前我国远洋渔业所处阶段的特征和国内外渔业环境,对我国远洋渔业的发展趋势进行预测,即我国远洋渔业发展趋势体现在如下三大转变,(1)由渔业资源依附型转变为科技资源驱动型;(2)资源消耗型转变成资源创造型,推进海外"蓝色粮仓"建设;(3)资源破坏型转变为资源养护型,树立负责任远洋渔业大国的形象。  相似文献   

Patterns and trends in seabird bycatch in the pelagic longline fishery off South Africa     

DP Rollinson  RM Wanless  PG Ryan 《African Journal of Marine Science》2017,39(1):9-25

Both foreign and domestic pelagic longline fishing vessels operate in South Africa’s Exclusive Economic Zone and adjacent international waters where they kill hundreds of seabirds each year as bycatch. To update assessments of the impact of the pelagic longline fishery on seabirds off South Africa, information on necropsied seabirds and national fisheries observer bycatch records were summarised for 2006–2013. Foreign-flagged (Asian) vessels had 100% observer coverage throughout the study period, whereas only 6% of the fishing effort by South African-flagged vessels was observed (with no coverage in 2011–2013). Vessels with observers caught seabirds at a rate of 0.132 birds per 1 000 hooks, resulting in an estimated mortality of 2 851 individuals (356 per year) comprising 14 species. Extrapolation of the observed fishing sets to the unobserved fishing sets by the South African domestic longline fleet suggested that approximately 750 additional birds were likely killed during the study period, therefore a combined 450 birds were killed per year. White-chinned petrel Procellaria aequinoctialis was the most frequently killed species (66%), followed by ‘shy-type’ albatrosses Thalassarche cauta/steadi (21%), black-browed albatross T. melanophris (7%), Indian yellow-nosed albatross T. carteri (3%), and Cape gannet Morus capensis (2%). The seabird bycatch rates were lower than in 1998–2005. Nationality of the vessel, time of line-setting, moon phase, year, season, fishing area, and seabird bycatch mitigation measures all influenced seabird mortality. Concurrent with 100% observer coverage, significant reductions in the seabird bycatch rate occurred in the Asian fleet in the latter years of the study, and these rates now approximate the national target (0.05 birds per 1 000 hooks). However, seabird bycatch rates remained high in the South African fleet, where no observers were deployed during 2011–2013, highlighting the need for independent observer programmes in fisheries—a matter of global interest. Suggestions are made as to how seabird bycatch by pelagic longline fisheries off South Africa may be further reduced.  相似文献   

余氯排海浓度预测及渔业损失计算     

毕闻彬  孙英兰 《海洋湖沼通报》2009,(1)

在潮流数值模拟的基础上,建立余氯的二维输运-扩散模型.并将模型应用于胶南发电厂温排水工程,预测了胶南发电厂温排水中余氯排海后在海洋中的浓度分布,并计算其造成的渔业损失量,为我国以自然水为冷却用水的企业确定水体加氯浓度和制定冷却水余氯排放标准提供科学依据,并为电厂的渔业资源补偿提供参考.  相似文献   

现代渔业在新农村建设中的地位与作用   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

周春霞 《广东海洋大学学报》2009,29(5):56-59

从战略、经济、文化、社区等4个层面论述了现代渔业对新农村建设的意义。从战略层面看,现代渔业是调整大农业内部结构,转移农村剩余劳动力的有效途径;从经济层面看,现代渔业是发展农村经济新的亮点和着力点;从文化层面看,现代渔业是促进现代乡村文化建设的重要基石;从社区层面看,现代渔业有助于运用先进的理念引领新农村社区建设。  相似文献   

Evidence of the top-down role of predators in structuring sublittoral rocky-reef communities in a Marine Protected Area and nearby areas of the Canary Islands     

Clemente  Sabrina; Hernandez  Jose Carlos; Brito  Alberto 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》2009,66(1):64-71

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Managing mobile species with MPAs: the effects of mobility, larval dispersal, and fishing mortality on closure size   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Le Quesne  W. J. F.; Codling  Edward A. 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》2009,66(1):122-131

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A context for ecosystem-based fishery management: Developing concepts of ecosystems and sustainability     

Sarah K. Gaichas 《Marine Policy》2008

Ecosystems have been viewed both as chaotic, untamed nature, and as mechanical systems with predictable equilibrium states. A developing concept of ecosystems as “complex adaptive systems” lies between these extreme concepts, with recognizably patterned but not fully predictable behavior. Sustainability has also been redefined as humans have exploited and often depleted desirable natural resources. Fisheries management desires sustainable yield, but must rethink this concept within the ecosystem context. The most powerful union of “ecosystem” and “sustainability” acknowledges the defining characteristics of complex adaptive systems with the objective of identifying and sustaining healthy relationships within and between ecosystems, economies, and society.  相似文献   

Performance of an inshore fishery in the absence of regulatory enforcement     

Edward Fahy   《Marine Policy》2008,32(6):1037-1042

The principal inshore fishery in the southwest Irish Sea is currently for whelk Buccinum undatum, which expanded in the 1990s and yielded almost 10,000 t in 2003. The fleet exploiting it consisted largely of old boats many of which previously used a variety of gears but which cannot any longer compete with more modern towing craft. Whelk is the only target species for the majority. The fishery is in open access and is not regulated and the paper examines the consequences of this for the fishers, particularly the problems associated with maintaining a way of life traditionally associated with remuneration by share rather than wage. Lack of regulation, it is argued, encourages a short term, opportunistic harvesting regime, which is not conducive to maintain a biologically sustainable fishery.  相似文献