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Creator:: Cisneros-Montemayor, Andrés
Abstract:: Informal fisheries (including unreported legal, illegal and discarded catch) have significant benefits for communities that official statistics often ignore, yet there is an associated loss in potential economic impacts compared to catch that is processed and marketed formally. This represents a significant global issue, as recent estimates suggest that about...
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Creator:: Schuhbauer, Anna, Cisneros-Montemayor, Andrés, and Sumaila, U. Rashid
Abstract:: Achieving economic viability is an important goal when it comes to developing policies for sustainable fisheries management, especially for small-scale fisheries (SSF). SSF are vital for many coastal communities, however, often economically and politically marginalized. Here, we develop and estimate what we denote as ‘basic economic viability’ of SSF, using...
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Creator:: Cisneros-Montemayor, Andrés, Sumaila, U. Rashid, Munro, Gordon R., Sanjurjo, Enrique, and Hernandez Trejo, Victor
Abstract:: Subsidies can directly support unsustainable fishing practices that harm both ecosystems and long-term social and economic benefits. Globally, fishery subsidies total around US$27 billion, yet their impacts on fishing dynamics are specific to given regions or particular fisheries and fishery subsidies within a nation have markedly different effects when applied...
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Creator:: Cisneros-Montemayor, Andrés
Abstract:: The Gulf of California is undoubtedly the Mexican marine region with the most research and conservation efforts. In addition to overfishing issues, it harbors endemic and Critically Endangered populations of totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi) and vaquita (Phocoena sinus). Conservation strategies have varied, but there is a wide recognition of their historic...
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