SSF Stewardship

In accord with the dual approach presented above, the specific objectives of the cluster are:

1. Conduct a rapid assessment of SSF gear impacts using the “damage schedule” rating template;

2. Develop a synthesis of relative impacts of SSF gear and compare them with those from industrial fishing gears;

3. Develop impact mitigation strategies in collaboration with small-scale fishing communities and managers;

4. Identify and assess types of stewardship in which small-scale fishing communities are engaged;

5. Understand how these stewardship initiatives are developed and implemented, and what conditions and actions foster (and hinder) stewardship; and

6. Raise the profile of SSF stewardship so that it is better recognized and considered in management decision-making.

1. SSF gear impact

a) What are the relative impacts of different types of SSF gear as compared to other SSF gear?

b) What are the relative impacts of SSF gears as compared to industrial fishing gears?

c) What strategies can be employed to mitigate SSF gear impacts?

Rapid assessment of SSF gear impact on bycatch and habitat

We are currently conducting the ‘Rapid assessment of SSF gear impact’ on bycatch and habitat. The aim is to provide a global assessment between small-scale fishing gears, also in comparison with large-scale fishing gears. All contributions will be acknowledged and incorporated in the Information System on Small-Scale Fisheries (ISSF), with interactive web-based, open access maps, showing relative values of SSF around the world.

To find out more about the assessment and to contribute your data, download the Rapid assessment of SSF gear impact template. The completed template should be sent to toobigtoignore@mun.ca as an attachment.

For a snapshot of the upcoming TBTI paper where we asses the varying impacts of small- and large-scale fishing gears on habitat and bycatch, click HERE. 

Small-scale, smaller footprints?

2. SSF Stewardship

a) What types of stewardship do small-scale fishing communities engage in? And what notions of “stewardship” are found among these communities?

b) What are the objectives of stewardship and what process by which this stewardship emerges?

c)  How effective are different types of stewardship at meeting these objectives? What are enabling factors and obstacles?

d) How can stewardship be better supported by policy instruments?

Rapid assessment of SSF stewardship activities 

We are currently conducting the ‘Rapid assessment of stewardship activities’. The aim is to collect information  about  ‘stewardship activities’ in specific case studies and examine the relationship between these activities and small-scale fishing people. We will invite contributors with interesting case studies to participate in the IMCC4 conference, which will be held in in St. John’s, Canada at the end of July 2016.

To find out more about the assessment and to contribute your data, fill out the online form or download the Stewardship activities fillable form. The completed fillable form should be sent to toobigtoignore@mun.ca as an attachment.

1. An e-book based on individual contribution of the SSF gear impact assessment

2. Publication about stewardship

3. Policy briefs, community toolkits and other communications based on the findings from the studies

4. Report to the World Conservation Monitoring Center (WCMC) task force on the role of small-scale fisheries stewardship in “Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures” for consideration in CBD discussions for the post-2020 process

5. A session at the 4^th International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC4), on 30 July – 3 August, 2016, St. John’s, NL

1. Rapid assessment of SSF gear and stewardship.

2. Rapid assessment of SSF stewardship activities.

2. Report to the World Conservation Monitoring Center (WCMC)

3. IMCC4 session, July 30-Aug 3 2016

TBTI webinar series on SSF Stewardship: Stewardship in small-scale fisheries: a global overview

-Sign up for the cluster

-Conduct rapid assessment of SSF gear impact and stewardsip and submit it using the online form

-Conduct rapid assessment of SSF stewarsdip activities and submit it using the online form / fillable form

– Encourage colleagues to contribute information

-Suggest other ideas and deliverables that you would like to see in the cluster

Tara Sayuri Whitty, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), USA

Ellen Hines, San Francisco State University, USA

Rebecca Lewison, San Diego State University, USA

Ratana Chuenpagdee, Memorial University, Canada

Mel Agapito, Memorial University, Canada

Delphine Rocklin, Memorial University, Canada