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Attitudes of Trawl Vessel Captains about Work, Resource Use, and Fishery Management
Author(s) -
Hanna Susan S.,
Smith Courtland L.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
north american journal of fisheries management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1548-8675
pISSN - 0275-5947
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8675(1993)013<0367:aotvca>2.3.co;2
Subject(s) - rationalization (economics) , fishing , fishery , resource (disambiguation) , homogeneous , fisheries management , work (physics) , business , population , commercial fishing , environmental resource management , economics , computer science , engineering , management , sociology , biology , thermodynamics , mechanical engineering , computer network , physics , demography
The fisheries literature embodies critical assumptions about fisherman attitudes and motivations. Common assumptions are that populations of fishermen are homogeneous in motivation and decision making and that they behave in a myopic fashion, ignoring the effects of their fishing activities on the fishery resource, The results of a survey of trawl vessel captains challenge these assumptions. We document a heterogeneous population of captains who hold a diverse set of views toward work, risk, and the ocean environment. We discuss the implications of these survey results for the design and implementation of fishery regulations, and for the rationalization of fisheries. We note the potential costs of misrepresenting fishermen in models of fishery resource use.