Fisheries Management

Pacific Islands Tuna Fisheries: Bold New Steps

by Tim ADAMS

Adams, T (2011) Pacific Islands Tuna Fisheries: Bold New Steps. Samudra 58, 22-25

Island States in the Pacific have taken bold steps in transboundary fisheries management that may be of interest to... more Island States in the Pacific have taken bold steps in transboundary fisheries management that may be of interest to developing countries in other regions

Zooarchaeological Analysis of the Indigenous Fishery at the Huu7ii Big House and Back Terrace, Huu-ay-aht Territory, Southwestern Vancouver Island

by Iain McKechnie

(2012) Zooarchaeological Analysis of the Indigenous Fishery at the Huu7ii Big House and Back Terrace, Huu-ay-aht Territory, Southwestern Vancouver Island. In Huu7ii: Household Archaeology at a Nuu-chah-nulth Village Site in Barkley Sound, by Alan D. McMillan and Denis E. St. Claire. Archaeology Press, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.

This paper describes how fish overwhelmingly dominates the animal bone assemblage from the examined column sample... more This paper describes how fish overwhelmingly dominates the animal bone assemblage from the examined column sample deposits at the Huu7ii village site, the named ancestral village of the Huu-ay-aht First Nation. Fish represent 99.9% of all identified bone specimens and are present in every examined litre of sediment indicating the importance of fish in the everyday life of site occupants. The bone assemblage is numerically dominated by Pacific herring, which vastly outnumbers the next most abundant fish: anchovy, salmon, hake, greenling, dogfish, and rockfish as well as two-dozen other fish taxa. I conduct a series of descriptive, quantitative, and graphical analyses that seek to interpret resource harvesting practices at the two examined portions of the site: a very large house (17x35m) dating to the late-Holocene (ca. 1,500-400 yr BP) and mid-Holocene midden deposits recovered on a raised beach terrace (ca. 5,000-3,000 yr BP).

Hortle 2008 Yield and value of the wild fishery of rice fields in Battambang Province, Cambodia

by Kent Hortle

Hortle 2007 Consumption and the yield of fish and other aquatic animals from the Lower Mekong Basin

by Kent Hortle

Fish Is Food - The FAO’s Fish Price Index

by Sigbjorn Tveteras

Co-authored with Frank Asche, Marc F. Bellemare, Martin D. Smith, Atle G. Guttormsen, Audun Lem, Kristin Lien, Stefania Vannuccini

World food prices hit an all-time high in February 2011 and are still almost two and a half times those of 2000.... more World food prices hit an all-time high in February 2011 and are still almost two and a half times those of 2000. Although three billion people worldwide use seafood as a key source of animal protein, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations–which compiles prices for other major food categories–has not tracked seafood prices. We fill this gap by developing an index of global seafood prices that can help to understand food crises and may assist in averting them. The fish price index (FPI) relies on trade statistics because seafood is heavily traded internationally, exposing non-traded seafood to price competition from imports and exports. Easily updated trade data can thus proxy for domestic seafood prices that are difficult to observe in many regions and costly to update with global coverage. Calculations of the extent of price competition in different countries support the plausibility of reliance on trade data. Overall, the FPI shows less volatility and fewer price spikes than other food price indices including oils, cereals, and dairy. The FPI generally reflects seafood scarcity, but it can also be separated into indices by production technology, fish species, or region. Splitting FPI into capture fisheries and aquaculture suggests increased scarcity of capture fishery resources in recent years, but also growth in aquaculture that is keeping pace with demand. Regionally, seafood price volatility varies, and some prices are negatively correlated. These patterns hint that regional supply shocks are consequential for seafood prices in spite of the high degree of seafood tradability.

Social Principles Underlying Traditional Inshore Fishery Management Systems In the Pacific Basin

by Kenneth Ruddle

(1989) Marine Resource Economics 5(4): 231 243

Marine Resources Management In the Context of Customary Tenure

by Kenneth Ruddle

(1992) Marine Resource Economics 7: 249-273 (K. Ruddle, E. Hviding and R.E.Johannes).

Boundary definition as a basic design principle of traditional fishery management system in Pacific Islands

by Kenneth Ruddle

(1996) Geographische Zeitschrift 84(2):94-102

Sea Tenure In Japan and the Southwestern Ryukyus

by Kenneth Ruddle

(1989), in A Sea of Small Boats, (ed. J.C.Cordell), Cambridge, Mass.: Cultural Survival, pp. 337 370 (K. Ruddle and T. Akimichi).

Back to first 'design principles': the issue of clearly defined boundaries

by Kenneth Ruddle

(1996) Traditional Marine Resource Management and Knowledge Information Bulletin 6:4-12 (K. Ruddle).

Traditional Community-Based Coastal Marine Fisheries Management In Viet Nam

by Kenneth Ruddle

(1998) Ocean and Coastal Management 40(3): 1-22

Introduction to the Special Issue on “A Modern Role for Traditional Coastal-Marine Resource Management Systems in the Pacific Islands”

by Kenneth Ruddle

(1998) Ocean and Coastal Management 40(4):99-103

The Role of Local Knowledge in Information Management and Decision Support for Marine Biodiversity Protection and Human Welfare

by Kenneth Ruddle

(2000)  Coral Reefs. In Information,  Management and Decision Support for Marine Biodiversity Protection and Human Welfare: Coral Reefs. Proceedings of a Workshop 6-10 December 1999, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Cape Ferguson, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, Done, T and Lloyd, D (eds.), 25-37, Townsville and Nairobi: AIMS and UNEP

Wronging Rights and Righting Wrongs, In Globalization: Effects on Fisheries Resources

by Kenneth Ruddle

(2007) in William Taylor, Michael Schechter, and Lois Wolfson (eds.). pp. 215-228. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Reconsidering the Contribution of Fisheries to Society and Millennium Development Goals

by Kenneth Ruddle

(2008) in Fisheries for Global Welfare and Environment,5thWorld Fisheries Congress, 2008. K. Tsukamoto, T. Kawamura, T. Takeuchi, T.D. Beard and M.J. Kaiser (eds.), pp. 199-411 .Tokyo: Terra Scientific Publishing Co.

Rights and Conflicts in the Management of Fisheries in the Lower Songkhram River Basin, Northeast Thailand

by Kenneth Ruddle

(2008) Environmental Management, 43:557-570 (M.Khumsri, K.Ruddle and G. P.Shivakoti).

Accounting for the Mismanagement of Tropical Nearshore Fisheries

by Kenneth Ruddle

(2008) Environment, Development and Sustainability 10(5): 565-589 (K.Ruddle and F.R.Hickey).

An Introduction to Pre-existing Local Management Systems in Southeast Asia

by Kenneth Ruddle

(2010) in Managing Coastal and Inland Waters: Pre-existing Aquatic Management Systems in Southeast Asia. K. Ruddle and A.Satria (eds.) pp. 1-30. Dordrecht & Heidelberg. Springer Publishing Company. (K. Ruddle and A.Satria)

Although known from colonial times, pre-existing systems of fisheries management in tropical nations have not usually... more Although known from colonial times, pre-existing systems of fisheries management in tropical nations have not usually been used as an alternative to introduced Western scientific approaches. During the colonial era non-Western models were disparaged openly, whereas nowadays commonly they are dismissively labeled as ‘traditional’ or ‘special’ cases. Often predicated on misguided theories, during the 1950s and 1960s a massive and experimental packaged transfer of social, economic, financial, educational, and legal systems, together with their underlying cultural values and aspirations regarded pre-existing economies, management systems, and often social and cultural systems as obstacles to modernization. Modernization provided the justification for foreign designers of fisheries management schemes to claim that pre-existing systems were either primitive or unsustainable or often ‘non-existent’. This was reinforced by a general ignorance of the tropics and prejudice on the part of scientists and educators, whose careers were enhanced by work in temperate regions. The generic ‘design principles’ and functioning of pre-existing systems is summarized, together with the status of knowledge on Indonesia, Laos, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Conclusion: Errors and Insights, In Managing Coastal and Inland Waters

by Kenneth Ruddle

(2010) Pre-existing Aquatic Management Systems in Southeast Asia. K. Ruddle and A.Satria (eds.) pp. 161-173. Dordrecht & Heidelberg. Springer Publishing Company. (K. Ruddle and A.Satria)

In addition to the erroneous assumption that tropical fisheries are
‘open access’ and not managed by... more In addition to the erroneous assumption that tropical fisheries are
‘open access’ and not managed by pre-existing systems, and therefore require externally imposed management systems to protect resources from collapse and lift fishing communities out of poverty, the Western approach to fisheries ‘development’ and management suffers from several other basic flaws. These are that (1) pre-existing systems are as much, if not more, concerned with the community of fishers and their families and not just fisheries, and their principal role is ensuring community harmony and continuity; (2) pre-existing systems can involve multiple and overlapping rights that are flexible and adapted to changing needs and circumstances; (3) fisheries are just one component of a community resource assemblage with fisheries managed in their ecological context of being dependent on the good management of linked upstream ecosystems, and on risk management and ensuring balanced nutritional resources of the community; and (4) pre-existing systems
are greatly affected by a constellation of interacting external pressures for change. If these cultural, ecological, economic, political and social context factors are not appreciated, any ‘imposed management system’ would likely fail from the outset to achieve its goals.

(2011) “Informal” Credit Systems in Fishing Communities: Issues and Examples from Vietnam. Human Organization 70(3): 224-232 (K. Ruddle).

by Kenneth Ruddle