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11. A Comparison of Small-Scale Fisheries Governability: Baja California Sur, Mexico and the Hawaiian Islands

Authors : Elena M. Finkbeiner, Adam L. Ayers, John N. Kittinger, Larry B. Crowder

Published in: Interactive Governance for Small-Scale Fisheries

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Most research on small-scale fisheries governance derives from developing countries, limiting our understanding of small-scale fisheries dynamics within developed nations. This knowledge gap creates disparities between these systems, limiting comparisons of similarities and differences across ranges of socioeconomic development and deriving solutions that can be feasibly applied to small-scale fisheries governance. Our chapter compares small-scale fisheries governance systems in the Hawaiian Islands and Baja California Sur, Mexico, using the interactive governance framework. Historically, collective action and self-governance were important in both regions, yet over time, have eroded due to a variety of factors. The current state of small-scale fisheries in the Hawaiian Islands and Baja California Sur, Mexico is generally characterized by open-access with low governability, but with opportunities to hybridize customary and centralized management systems through co-management. This chapter will provide insight into why this has occurred by drawing on similarities across small-scale fisheries in developed and developing country contexts, in addition to highlighting divergences occurring along the trajectory from high governability, self-governance of fisheries resources to low governability and open-access tragedies.

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Title: A Comparison of Small-Scale Fisheries Governability: Baja California Sur, Mexico and the Hawaiian Islands
Authors: Elena M. Finkbeiner
Adam L. Ayers
John N. Kittinger
Larry B. Crowder
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Interactive Governance for Small-Scale Fisheries
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-17033-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-17034-3

Copyright Year: 2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17034-3_11

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