Sustainability of the Juan Fernández lobster fishery (Chile) and the perils of generic science-based prescriptions

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Ernst, Billy; Chamorro, Julio; Manriquez, Pablo; Orensanz, Jose Maria; Parma, Ana Maria; Porobic, Javier; Román, Catalina
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2013
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Lobster fishing is the main source of income for the people from the Juan Fernández Archipelago (population ca. 770), located more than 700 km off central Chile. An artisanal fishery has operated uninterruptedly for more than a century with few harvest controls (season, size, no egg-bearing females). Access to the resource has long been regulated by an informal but well structured traditional sea tenure system, which has effectively constrained the growth of fleet size. Nevertheless, and in spite of a lack of impending crises, assessments conducted over the last 40 years have recurrently diagnosed that effort is well above the optimum level. On that basis, generic “solutions” (quotas, marine protected areas, closures) have been prescribed with no attention to their possible impacts on the users and on traditional tenure arrangements. We discuss the merit of those diagnostics and prescriptions, and conclude that the disruption created by their eventual implementation would threaten the sustainability of the fishery. An analysis of the entire social-ecological system is needed before drastic solutions are prescribed. We investigate the factors that favor sustainability using Ostrom's framework for the analysis of social-ecological systems. Those factors have to do with the resource system (a productive stock with well defined boundaries and divisibility of fishing spots among users), governance (traditional tenure and simple operational rules), the users (few, strongly dependent on the resource, and sharing a detailed mental model of the resource system), and interactions (self-organization and partnerships). The resilience of the system was tested by the devastating tsunami that hit the islands in February 2010. This case study illustrates the need to attend to the interactions among resources, users and institutions in the search for effective solutions and to avoid disruptive management interventions.
Fil: Ernst, Billy. Universidad de Concepción; Chile
Fil: Chamorro, Julio. Sindicato de Trabajadores Independientes Pescadores Artesanales; Chile
Fil: Manriquez, Pablo. Universidad de Concepción; Chile. Sindicato de Trabajadores Independientes Pescadores Artesanales; Chile
Fil: Orensanz, Jose Maria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Nacional Patagónico; Argentina
Fil: Parma, Ana Maria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Nacional Patagónico; Argentina
Fil: Porobic, Javier. Universidad de Concepción; Chile
Fil: Román, Catalina. Universidad de Concepción; Chile
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spelling Sustainability of the Juan Fernández lobster fishery (Chile) and the perils of generic science-based prescriptionsErnst, BillyChamorro, JulioManriquez, PabloOrensanz, Jose MariaParma, Ana MariaPorobic, JavierRomán, CatalinaPrescripciones GenericasPesqueriasManejoLangostashttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/4.1https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4Lobster fishing is the main source of income for the people from the Juan Fernández Archipelago (population ca. 770), located more than 700 km off central Chile. An artisanal fishery has operated uninterruptedly for more than a century with few harvest controls (season, size, no egg-bearing females). Access to the resource has long been regulated by an informal but well structured traditional sea tenure system, which has effectively constrained the growth of fleet size. Nevertheless, and in spite of a lack of impending crises, assessments conducted over the last 40 years have recurrently diagnosed that effort is well above the optimum level. On that basis, generic “solutions” (quotas, marine protected areas, closures) have been prescribed with no attention to their possible impacts on the users and on traditional tenure arrangements. We discuss the merit of those diagnostics and prescriptions, and conclude that the disruption created by their eventual implementation would threaten the sustainability of the fishery. An analysis of the entire social-ecological system is needed before drastic solutions are prescribed. We investigate the factors that favor sustainability using Ostrom's framework for the analysis of social-ecological systems. Those factors have to do with the resource system (a productive stock with well defined boundaries and divisibility of fishing spots among users), governance (traditional tenure and simple operational rules), the users (few, strongly dependent on the resource, and sharing a detailed mental model of the resource system), and interactions (self-organization and partnerships). The resilience of the system was tested by the devastating tsunami that hit the islands in February 2010. This case study illustrates the need to attend to the interactions among resources, users and institutions in the search for effective solutions and to avoid disruptive management interventions.Fil: Ernst, Billy. Universidad de Concepción; ChileFil: Chamorro, Julio. Sindicato de Trabajadores Independientes Pescadores Artesanales; ChileFil: Manriquez, Pablo. Universidad de Concepción; Chile. Sindicato de Trabajadores Independientes Pescadores Artesanales; ChileFil: Orensanz, Jose Maria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Nacional Patagónico; ArgentinaFil: Parma, Ana Maria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Nacional Patagónico; ArgentinaFil: Porobic, Javier. Universidad de Concepción; ChileFil: Román, Catalina. Universidad de Concepción; ChileElsevier2013-03info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/5346Ernst, Billy; Chamorro, Julio; Manriquez, Pablo; Orensanz, Jose Maria; Parma, Ana Maria; et al.; Sustainability of the Juan Fernández lobster fishery (Chile) and the perils of generic science-based prescriptions; Elsevier; Global Environmental Change; 23; 6; 3-2013; 1381-13920959-3780enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/ark/http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378013001374info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.08.002info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-11-12T09:53:12Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/5346instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-11-12 09:53:12.597CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Sustainability of the Juan Fernández lobster fishery (Chile) and the perils of generic science-based prescriptions
title Sustainability of the Juan Fernández lobster fishery (Chile) and the perils of generic science-based prescriptions
spellingShingle Sustainability of the Juan Fernández lobster fishery (Chile) and the perils of generic science-based prescriptions
Ernst, Billy
Prescripciones Genericas
Pesquerias
Manejo
Langostas
title_short Sustainability of the Juan Fernández lobster fishery (Chile) and the perils of generic science-based prescriptions
title_full Sustainability of the Juan Fernández lobster fishery (Chile) and the perils of generic science-based prescriptions
title_fullStr Sustainability of the Juan Fernández lobster fishery (Chile) and the perils of generic science-based prescriptions
title_full_unstemmed Sustainability of the Juan Fernández lobster fishery (Chile) and the perils of generic science-based prescriptions
title_sort Sustainability of the Juan Fernández lobster fishery (Chile) and the perils of generic science-based prescriptions
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Ernst, Billy
Chamorro, Julio
Manriquez, Pablo
Orensanz, Jose Maria
Parma, Ana Maria
Porobic, Javier
Román, Catalina
author Ernst, Billy
author_facet Ernst, Billy
Chamorro, Julio
Manriquez, Pablo
Orensanz, Jose Maria
Parma, Ana Maria
Porobic, Javier
Román, Catalina
author_role author
author2 Chamorro, Julio
Manriquez, Pablo
Orensanz, Jose Maria
Parma, Ana Maria
Porobic, Javier
Román, Catalina
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Prescripciones Genericas
Pesquerias
Manejo
Langostas
topic Prescripciones Genericas
Pesquerias
Manejo
Langostas
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4.1
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Lobster fishing is the main source of income for the people from the Juan Fernández Archipelago (population ca. 770), located more than 700 km off central Chile. An artisanal fishery has operated uninterruptedly for more than a century with few harvest controls (season, size, no egg-bearing females). Access to the resource has long been regulated by an informal but well structured traditional sea tenure system, which has effectively constrained the growth of fleet size. Nevertheless, and in spite of a lack of impending crises, assessments conducted over the last 40 years have recurrently diagnosed that effort is well above the optimum level. On that basis, generic “solutions” (quotas, marine protected areas, closures) have been prescribed with no attention to their possible impacts on the users and on traditional tenure arrangements. We discuss the merit of those diagnostics and prescriptions, and conclude that the disruption created by their eventual implementation would threaten the sustainability of the fishery. An analysis of the entire social-ecological system is needed before drastic solutions are prescribed. We investigate the factors that favor sustainability using Ostrom's framework for the analysis of social-ecological systems. Those factors have to do with the resource system (a productive stock with well defined boundaries and divisibility of fishing spots among users), governance (traditional tenure and simple operational rules), the users (few, strongly dependent on the resource, and sharing a detailed mental model of the resource system), and interactions (self-organization and partnerships). The resilience of the system was tested by the devastating tsunami that hit the islands in February 2010. This case study illustrates the need to attend to the interactions among resources, users and institutions in the search for effective solutions and to avoid disruptive management interventions.
Fil: Ernst, Billy. Universidad de Concepción; Chile
Fil: Chamorro, Julio. Sindicato de Trabajadores Independientes Pescadores Artesanales; Chile
Fil: Manriquez, Pablo. Universidad de Concepción; Chile. Sindicato de Trabajadores Independientes Pescadores Artesanales; Chile
Fil: Orensanz, Jose Maria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Nacional Patagónico; Argentina
Fil: Parma, Ana Maria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Nacional Patagónico; Argentina
Fil: Porobic, Javier. Universidad de Concepción; Chile
Fil: Román, Catalina. Universidad de Concepción; Chile
description Lobster fishing is the main source of income for the people from the Juan Fernández Archipelago (population ca. 770), located more than 700 km off central Chile. An artisanal fishery has operated uninterruptedly for more than a century with few harvest controls (season, size, no egg-bearing females). Access to the resource has long been regulated by an informal but well structured traditional sea tenure system, which has effectively constrained the growth of fleet size. Nevertheless, and in spite of a lack of impending crises, assessments conducted over the last 40 years have recurrently diagnosed that effort is well above the optimum level. On that basis, generic “solutions” (quotas, marine protected areas, closures) have been prescribed with no attention to their possible impacts on the users and on traditional tenure arrangements. We discuss the merit of those diagnostics and prescriptions, and conclude that the disruption created by their eventual implementation would threaten the sustainability of the fishery. An analysis of the entire social-ecological system is needed before drastic solutions are prescribed. We investigate the factors that favor sustainability using Ostrom's framework for the analysis of social-ecological systems. Those factors have to do with the resource system (a productive stock with well defined boundaries and divisibility of fishing spots among users), governance (traditional tenure and simple operational rules), the users (few, strongly dependent on the resource, and sharing a detailed mental model of the resource system), and interactions (self-organization and partnerships). The resilience of the system was tested by the devastating tsunami that hit the islands in February 2010. This case study illustrates the need to attend to the interactions among resources, users and institutions in the search for effective solutions and to avoid disruptive management interventions.
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