Basurto, Xavier and Virdin, John and Franz, Nicole and DeLand, Sarah and Smith, Bea and Cleary, Jesse and Vegh, Tibor and Halpin, Patrick (2024) A global assessment of preferential access areas for small-scale fisheries. p. 9.
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We provide the first global assessment of the status of preferential access areas (PAAs), a relatively understudied policy tool to govern small-scale fisheries. We find 44 countries, most of them of low or low-middle income, have established a total of 63 PAAs encompassing 3% of continental shelf area worldwide. The analysis of an ad-hoc subsample of twelve countries in three continents for which data were available (2016–2017) revealed that PAAs supported greater amounts of small-scale fisheries marine catch volume, landed value, fishing for self-consumption, and more nutritious species than marine areas outside PAAs. This preliminary assessment suggests that if appropriately enforced through shared governance with fishers and responsible fishing practices, relatively small areas of the ocean could provide important nutrition security, economic, and employment benefits to millions of people living in coastal areas. We offer an agenda for future research and policy action based on our findings.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | Small-scale Fisheries, Responsible Fisheries, Fisheries Policy, Governance, Sustainable Development, Fishing Communities, Coastal Areas, Coastal Waters |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Kokila ICSF Krish |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Dec 2024 04:54 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Dec 2024 04:54 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/21288 |
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