Being well-governed: Including inspectors in a systems approach to fisheries management.

Publisher: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Country of Publication: Sweden NLM ID: 0364220 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1654-7209 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00447447 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Ambio Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: Stockholm : Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Original Publication: Oslo, Universitetsforlaget.

Conservation of Natural Resources* ; Fisheries*; Ecology ; Ecosystem ; South Africa ; Systems Analysis

Based on 18-months of ethnographic fieldwork in South Africa's Western Cape province, we suggest ways in which marine resource law enforcement activities can be evaluated at the level of individual fisheries compliance inspectors, to gain a more accurate understanding of the state of marine resource law enforcement. We show that these individual assessments can be scaled up to speak about specific compliance stations, and further, that these local-level assessments can be scaled up to the regional and provincial levels, without losing sight of the needs and value of the individual inspector. This paper contributes to the broader conversation on compliance in marine resource governance, as well as opening a new avenue of discussion: how to incorporate inspector-focussed social indicators. We show that this can be done in ways that take the overlap of the ecological, economic and social dimensions into account, while still being practical in terms of application and evaluation.

Science. 2016 Apr 1;352(6281):38-40. (PMID: 27034361)

DST/NRF Grant Number 65238 DST/NRF Research Chair in Marine Ecology and Fisheries

Keywords: Compliance; Fisheries systems; Human dimension; Marine governance; Well-being

Date Created: 20190824 Date Completed: 20200220 Latest Revision: 20210402

20231215

PMC7028893

10.1007/s13280-019-01237-3

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