Stewardship, as a concept that relates to any action taken by a steward in favor of the sustainability of their environment, has attracted attention. However, research on stewardship action taken by fishers at the local level is particularly understudied. Our study was conducted in Kepulauan Seribu Marine National Park, where fishing logbook activity occurred as part of the introduction of Territorial Use Rights for Fisheries (TURF) management. Logbook writing is the local stewardship action in the center of interest of this study. We collected empirical data using the local environmental stewardship framework to analyze the main causes why the fishing logbook writing discontinued and determine the leverage strategies to relaunch the activity. Semi-structured interviews with fishers who did and did not submit the logbook reveal that the fisher's intrinsic motivation and agency are strongly intertwined with the social, cultural, and political contexts, which together provide a good understanding of why stewardship action stopped. Applying the framework demonstrates that the failure of the stewardship action is a result of a mismatch between the TURF approach and the fishers' understanding of how the problem should be managed and solved. Despite being granted exclusive management rights by the authorities, the fishers have little intrinsic motivation and a lack of agency, and they ask heavily for government action. Fishing logbooks are an example of stewardship action that integrates local and fishery biology knowledge for creating a basis to determine strategies to address local overfishing problems. We outline different leveraging strategies that could potentially relaunch the logbook activity in Kepulauan Seribu.
Furqan R. and Schlüter A. (2024) Fishing logbook as stewardship action within TURF management in Kepulauan Seribu Marine National Park, Indonesia. 252: 107114. 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2024.107114
@article{Furqan2024,
Title = {Fishing logbook as stewardship action within TURF management in Kepulauan Seribu Marine National Park, Indonesia},
Author = {Furqan, Rifki and Schlüter, Achim},
Editor = {},
Year = {2024},
Pages = {107114},
Volume = {252},
Doi = {10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2024.107114},
Abstract = {Stewardship, as a concept that relates to any action taken by a steward in favor of the sustainability of their environment, has attracted attention. However, research on stewardship action taken by fishers at the local level is particularly understudied. Our study was conducted in Kepulauan Seribu Marine National Park, where fishing logbook activity occurred as part of the introduction of Territorial Use Rights for Fisheries (TURF) management. Logbook writing is the local stewardship action in the center of interest of this study. We collected empirical data using the local environmental stewardship framework to analyze the main causes why the fishing logbook writing discontinued and determine the leverage strategies to relaunch the activity. Semi-structured interviews with fishers who did and did not submit the logbook reveal that the fisher's intrinsic motivation and agency are strongly intertwined with the social, cultural, and political contexts, which together provide a good understanding of why stewardship action stopped. Applying the framework demonstrates that the failure of the stewardship action is a result of a mismatch between the TURF approach and the fishers' understanding of how the problem should be managed and solved. Despite being granted exclusive management rights by the authorities, the fishers have little intrinsic motivation and a lack of agency, and they ask heavily for government action. Fishing logbooks are an example of stewardship action that integrates local and fishery biology knowledge for creating a basis to determine strategies to address local overfishing problems. We outline different leveraging strategies that could potentially relaunch the logbook activity in Kepulauan Seribu.},
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AU - Furqan, Rifki
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TI - Fishing logbook as stewardship action within TURF management in Kepulauan Seribu Marine National Park, Indonesia
PY - 2024
SP - 107114
VL - 252
DO - 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2024.107114
AB - Stewardship, as a concept that relates to any action taken by a steward in favor of the sustainability of their environment, has attracted attention. However, research on stewardship action taken by fishers at the local level is particularly understudied. Our study was conducted in Kepulauan Seribu Marine National Park, where fishing logbook activity occurred as part of the introduction of Territorial Use Rights for Fisheries (TURF) management. Logbook writing is the local stewardship action in the center of interest of this study. We collected empirical data using the local environmental stewardship framework to analyze the main causes why the fishing logbook writing discontinued and determine the leverage strategies to relaunch the activity. Semi-structured interviews with fishers who did and did not submit the logbook reveal that the fisher's intrinsic motivation and agency are strongly intertwined with the social, cultural, and political contexts, which together provide a good understanding of why stewardship action stopped. Applying the framework demonstrates that the failure of the stewardship action is a result of a mismatch between the TURF approach and the fishers' understanding of how the problem should be managed and solved. Despite being granted exclusive management rights by the authorities, the fishers have little intrinsic motivation and a lack of agency, and they ask heavily for government action. Fishing logbooks are an example of stewardship action that integrates local and fishery biology knowledge for creating a basis to determine strategies to address local overfishing problems. We outline different leveraging strategies that could potentially relaunch the logbook activity in Kepulauan Seribu.
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