Transforming the Fisheries by Patrick Bresnihan
Author:Patrick Bresnihan [Bresnihan, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8032-8584-2
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2016-08-15T00:00:00+00:00
Rather than seek âoptimal solutions,â the managers of institutional commons are looking instead to foster spaces in which communities can take on more responsibility for their own environments and livelihoods while remaining flexible and adaptive. This is the value of collective action: creating âroom to develop and tie together promising novelties, thus producing a double capacity to deliver, or as local discourse has it, âto do it betterâ than can be done through the unmediated imposition of regulatory schemesâ (Van der Ploeg 2008, 202). It is no coincidence that communityâmanaged approaches to resource management have emerged at a time when many national governments are reducing their financial or institutional capacities to respond to proliferating and complex environmental problems. In the context of development policies in the Global South, for example, Forsyth and Johnson write, âFor donors and NGOS, [Elinor] Ostromâs design principles offered a model of decentralization and local resource governance that could be replicated in multiple field settings, and which used empowering local and incentiveâbased governance mechanismsâ (Forsyth and Johnson 2014, 1098).10
The flipside to this investment in community management, of course, is that the failure of inshore fishermen to act rationally is deemed a failure that demands more work and coordination to overcome. Carney captured this mentality when he told me of the chronic problem of âuneconomicâ conduct within the inshore sector:
They are not aware of profitabilityâwell, they are aware, but they donât act as if they do. You could know at any given Monday morning when you start work, they should know what the likelihood of making a profit in the week isâthey know the market price, the catch rate from last week, they know their costs. Thatâs a simple kind of profit equationâ they can work that out in their head, but when you ask them, âDo they ever work it out in their head?â they never do. (Carney 2009; emphasis added)
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