Middlemen,informal trading and its linkages with IUU fishing activities in the port of Progreso,Mexico |
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| Institution: | 1. Center for Environmental Crime Studies, Borups Allé 235 B, 3. tv. 2400, Copenhagen NV 2400, Denmark;2. School of Sociology, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 11 Myasnitskaya Ulitsa, Moscow 101000, Russian Federation;3. School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK;1. Department of Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY, USA;2. Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA;3. Department of Criminal Justice, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA;1. ISPRA, Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Lungomare Cristoforo Colombo n 4521 (ex Complesso Roosevelt), 90149 Palermo, Italy;2. ISPRA, Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, via Vitaliano Brancati 60, 00144 Rome, Italy |
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| Abstract: | This paper explores the economic environment that makes informal fish trading possible, the nature of these activities and how they are interconnected or might stimulate IUU fishing activities in the port of Progreso, Yucatan, Mexico. The main argument is that fish trading by middlemen has been developed within the scope of an informal sector which depends on the existence of structural and organizational factors such as: a dual economic system where the formal and informal sectors are complementary, and an institutional environment and a socio-economic network that interconnects both sectors and supports the activity. Research for this study was carried out during 2008 and 2009 in the port of Progreso, Yucatan, Mexico. The survey strategy was a non-probability sample adapting and combining chain referral techniques because middlemen in this region are a hidden population. Findings indicate that the main motivation for middlemen to remain underground is to maximize benefits. In order to do so, they need to build a socioeconomic network which is the center of their trading system. This way of operating generates incentives for fishers to fish illegally because middlemen would buy their products even if they do not meet formal regulations. |
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