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Subject: Is possible to apply MAS in co-managed benthic fisheries?
From: Ricardo Bandin (rbandin@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Aug 09 2010 - 10:55:32 CEST
Dear friends of Cormas
I hope you are well in every aspect. I'm a peruvian biologist and a student
developing a master of science degree in fisheries at the University of
Concepcion (Chile). While seeking information for my dissertation I found
your very interesting and inspiring CORMAS web:
I would like to adapt the MAS approach to model the economical viability and
social-comunitary resilience of a Chilean fishery institutional arrangement
called Management Area (MA) in the face of poaching, debt by cumulative
taxes, and natural disasters. MA's consist in the assignment to formally
organized artisanal fishers, of exclusive rights for accessing benthic
marine coastal stocks (mainly of the gastropod *Concholepas concholepas*,
known in Chile as ‘loco’), in specific geographically delimited areas, in
order to exploit and co-manage them. Up to date it exist 643 of them
decreed, involving more than 31 000 fishermen along ca. 3000 Km of the
Chilean coast. I pretend to apply the model with a case study of "Isla
Mocha", a small inshore island where various loco AM’s coexist in charge of
2 organizations (with little cooperation and much confliction among them).
Up to date I got some 54 surveys done, in wich I collected information about
the islander fishermen perception of their syndicates vulnerabilities and
capacities to cope with a natural disaster (like the 2010-feb-27
earthquake-tsunami), information about loco poaching, and the effect of a
formal tax imposed annually and spatially to their AM’s. Besides I’m trying
an statistical catch at age modeling to model the loco stocks dynamics in a
more realistic way including the poaching effect.
I’m recurring to your help because no fishery scholar here seems to be
interested in applying the ABM approach to study these items (as far as I
searched, there is no scholar in Chile interested), so I decided to advance
by my own this kind of analysis in parallel to my dissertation work. In this
university in a non formal way I could get the collaboration of a
sociologist and an system engineer specialized in ABM (not in the social
field)
I'll be deeply grateful if you could give me some principles or guidelines
to begin some analysis (or at least trying).
Since now I'm grateful for your attention, and whatever the help you could
provide.
Receive my cordial greetings,
-- Ricardo Bandin Llanos rbandin@udec.cl Estudiante - Magíster Cs. m. Pesquerías Universidad de Concepción, Región del Bio-Bio, Chile Celular: (0056 -9-) 97949957