Integrating Human Dimensions into Fisheries Management: A Case Study of Whale Entanglement in California’s Dungeness Crab Fishery
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The past decade has seen a sharp increase in reports of whale entanglement along the U.S. West Coast, with California’s commercial Dungeness crab fishery implicated in many such incidents. Current management strategies for whale entanglement focus primarily on ecological risk and often fall short in assessing impacts on fishermen, which are felt across a range of social, economic, and cultural scales. Integrated risk assessments for fisheries management that consider both ecological and human dimensions are precluded by an absence of social science data. The following study addresses this gap by engaging with members of the Dungeness crab fleet across a range of ports, operation sizes, and experience levels. Based on semi-structured interviews, a conceptual framework is proposed that characterizes the broad range of human dimensions of the fishery and explores the integration of these dimensions into management of whale entanglement risk. Using coupled inductive and deductive analytic approaches, interview transcripts were qualitatively coded to facilitate pattern recognition within and across the data. Participants recounted a diverse set of impacts stemming from entanglement-mitigation policies, though many converged on the shared loss of livelihood and identity. The incident and impact of these losses can be alleviated by fisheries management encompassing human dimensions. To this end, there is a need within existing management programs to reduce bias towards ecological information, improve fishery-specific social science research, and expand stakeholder engagement programs. The conceptual frameworks advanced by this study are widely generalizable and can shed light on the practical steps needed to achieve social, economic, and ecological sustainability across diverse human-environmental systems.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Publication date | June 16, 2023 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Glickman, Molly |
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| Thesis advisor | Crowder, Larry |
| Thesis advisor | Early-Capistrán, Michelle María |
| Degree granting institution | Stanford University |
| Department | Earth Systems Program |
Subjects
| Subject | Fishery management |
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| Subject | Qualitative research |
| Subject | Whales |
| Subject | Dungeness crab |
| Subject | Social sciences |
| Subject | Ecosystem management |
| Subject | Sustainability |
| Genre | Text |
| Genre | Thesis |
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- Glickman, M. (2023). Integrating Human Dimensions into Fisheries Management: A Case Study of Whale Entanglement in California’s Dungeness Crab Fishery. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/nz628sh5376. https://doi.org/10.25740/nz628sh5376.
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