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Subject: Re: Is possible to apply MAS in co-managed benthic fisheries?
From: Deb Cleland (deborah.cleland@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Aug 12 2010 - 04:13:27 CEST
Hi Ricardo,
We have a fishing game in Cormas: ReefGame - on the Cormas website. That
might help with some initial ideas. Feel free to contact me directly if you
have further questions.
Cheers
Deb
On 9 August 2010 18:55, Ricardo Bandin <rbandin@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
--
Deborah Cleland
PhD Student
Fenner School of Environment and Society
College of Medicine, Biology & Environment
Room 2.05, Building 48a
Australian National University
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