Adapting to change: Prioritising management for the future of the Marine Scalefish Fishery

Melissa Nursey-Bray; Anders Magnusson; Nathan Bicknell; Meagan Magnusson; Julian Morison; Andrew Sullivan

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2018.02.024

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Adapting to change: Prioritising management for the future of the Marine Scalefish Fishery

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Adapting to change: Prioritising management for the future of the Marine Scalefish Fishery

Melissa Nursey-Bray, Anders Magnusson, Nathan Bicknell, Meagan Magnusson, Julian Morison and Andrew Sullivan

Marine Policy, Vol.95, pp.153-165

2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.02.024

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Environmental Science and Management

Political Science

Law

Management

fisheries

governance

objectives

Australia

AHP

Marine scalefish fisheries face multiple challenges including management and sustainability pressures. These are going to be amplified by climate change. This paper reports on a project that used the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and semi-structured interviews to assess how marine scalefish fishers in South Australia, prioritise management objectives with a view to incorporating those views into structural industry reform to build the fishery's capacity to adapt in the face of these challenges. The project found that fishers, despite differences in geographical scale, fishing practice and species harvested, prioritised governance objectives most highly, and that economic and environmental objectives were prioritised as key and equally important; one could not exist without the other. Fishers prioritised social objectives the least as they expect these to follow from the economic and environmental objectives. Fishers also felt stocks had declined and that reform was urgently needed. Most fishers agreed that reform should include a reduction in licences. All fishers felt that recreational fishing was under-regulated and compromised commercial fishing opportunities. The project revealed that the capacity of fishers to adapt within the current operating environment is limited and that they will need government and other support to implement reform. For policy makers, this highlights that reform is culturally palatable but that it must include incentives and compensation for fishers to leave or stay in the industry.

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Title: Adapting to change: Prioritising management for the future of the Marine Scalefish Fishery
Authors: Melissa Nursey-Bray (Author) - University of Adelaide
Anders Magnusson (Author) - EconSearch a division of BDO
Nathan Bicknell (Author) - Marine Fishers Association
Meagan Magnusson (Author) - University of Adelaide
Julian Morison (Author) - EconSearch a division of BDO
Andrew Sullivan (Author) - A&K Fish Focus Consulting
Publication details: Marine Policy, Vol.95, pp.153-165
Publisher: Pergamon
Date published: 2018
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2018.02.024
ISSN: 0308-597X
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99451116802621
Output Type: Journal article

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