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4 Beneficiaries of Fishery Management Decisions
4 Beneficiaries of Fishery Management Decisions
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By focusing on these three well-defined, common groups of beneficiaries, this approach ignores others who might have once benefited or who could benefit in the future, or whom society might wish to see benefit were different fishery management decisions made. Therefore, the final section of this chapter introduces the notion of potential beneficiaries as an improved way of thinking about equity in fisheries management.
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However, as discussed extensively in Chapter 3, the placebased approach to fishing communities is limited, including the potential need to specific historically marginalized or underserved groups. The following sections consider three broad and often overlapping groups of beneficiaries in fisheries, beyond permit and quota holders, that receive benefits stemming directly from fishery management decisions.
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. Studies of Vietnamese fishing fleets in the southeast have described the challenges of language isolation, including those between fishing crew and fisheries management and observers (Schewe and Dutton, 2018)
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Data on the benefits and costs of fishery management decisions on crew are important. The crew survey conducted in the Northeast region is a high-quality example of one possible approach to collecting data to characterize how the flow of benefits to crew is affected by management decisions related to permits and quotas.
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Fish processing jobs are highly dependent on the current status and management of supporting fisheries. For instance, when fish and shellfish landings declined along the Atlantic coast in the 1970s and 1980s, Maryland's fish processing plants shed more than 1,000 jobs (Stull et al., 1995)
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. Fishery management decisions, including issuance of permit and the allocation of quota directly affect this non-monetary good (Costello et al., 2020)
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serve to disadvantage underserved communities. On the other hand, National Standard 8 guidelines also state: This standard does not constitute a basis for allocating resources to a specific fishing community nor for providing preferential treatment based on residence in a fishing community.1 Benefits Communities obtain monetary and nonmonetary benefits that result from management decisions related to permit and quotas allocation.
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Earlier chapters highlight some of the substantial work that has been done to develop indicators of coastal community social vulnerability to better account for the community impacts of fishery management and policy (e.g., Colburn et al., 2016; Jepson and Colburn, 2013)
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groundfish and crab fisheries in Alaska."2 ACEPO reports are meant to support data needs related to National Standard 8 and respond to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council management objectives. The report is based on a mixed-method approach.
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In fisheries, this may include group designations, such as recreational fisher, commercial fisher, environmental group, or fishery manager. In contrast, potential beneficiaries are groups of people who currently do or could receive benefits from fisheries management.
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As described throughout this report, underrepresented or underserved populations can be characterized in many ways. For societal and federal workforce considerations, Executive Order 13985 directly provides many specific categories: TABLE 4-1 An Example Scheme for Categorizing Potential Beneficiaries SOURCES: Sharpe et al.
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The committee recognize two groups of potential beneficiaries of particular note: underserved communities as defined by NMFS and citizens of Tribal Nations or Indigenous Peoples. Underserved Communities NMFS's EEJS identifies ‘underserved communities' as a central subject of equity concerns and defines those communities as sharing either a geographic location or "shared characteristics, history, or identity" (NMFS, 2023b)
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As one example, NOAA's Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool includes an interactive mapping tool that identifies underserved communities using eight categories of indicators (e.g., climate change, energy, health, housing, workforce development) .4 Many examples in the social science literature can help inform NMFS's approach to better accounting for the ways in which Indigenous and underserved communities may be included in assessments of benefits or impacts of fishery management decisions.
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FINDING 4-4: Shoreside facilities, distribution networks, fishery-dependent industries, and fishing communities are important potential beneficiaries of fishery management decisions. However, data on these important potential beneficiaries are sparse and inconsistently avail able.
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