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Assessing Equity in the Distribution of Fisheries Management Benefits Data and Information Availability (2024) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
Pages 13-18

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... Beyond economic value, fisheries can provide cultural, social, and other benefits, including food for family gatherings. Participants often gain an appreciation for the natural world, beyond economic values, leading to an increased appreciation of environmental issues, concerns, and stewardship.
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From page 14...
... In seeking to make progress on these strategic objectives, NMFS requested that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine establish an ad hoc committee to conduct a consensus study that considers information needs and data collection for assessing the distribution of fisheries management benefits. In the first of two proposed studies, NMFS requested that the National Academies committee identify information needs, obstacles to collecting information, and potential methodologies for assessing where and to whom the primary benefits of commercial and for-hire fishery management accrue.
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From page 15...
... Accordingly, the committee felt that a natural division exists between the issuance of permits and the processing of harvest product in fishing communities and the subsequent flow of benefits to consumers and companies in the seafood supply chain. In this framing, the committee considers first a narrow interpretation of primary benefits as those accruing directly from the issuance of permits and allocation of quota, but subsequently widens the interpretation to consider important benefits of management that accrue to participants in the fishery and processing sectors subsequent to the issuance of permits and the allocation of permits.
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... The committee provides examples of the demographic information available for select regions and fisheries, particularly from the Northeast, Gulf of Mexico, and North Pacific, to demonstrate the heterogeneity across fisheries and management regions. The committee did not attempt to comprehensively review fisheries from all regions, in part because the use of regional examples was intended to be illustrative, and in part, because the committee's examination of regional examples was limited by scope, time, available information, and collective expertise.
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... However, nonmonetary benefits, including status, job satisfaction, identity, and sense of place, are also important. • Environmental justice is often used interchangeably with equity but emerged from specific concerns about the unjust distribution of environmental harms to communities of color and the need to redress these.
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