turf-reserves

TURF-Reserves

Designing Effective Area-Based Catch Shares

K. Beadle

What is a TURF-Reserve?

Exclusive fishing privileges in a defined area

Usually allocated to Cooperatives

Accountable to catch limit or other controls on fishing mortality

No-take reserve provides additional protections for fish stocks

Why TURFs?

Enable local management

Compatible with other spatial management

Multi-species / ecosystem approach

Benefit local communities

Practical or accepted for some fisheries

No-take reserves

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When TURFs are paired with no-take reserves

Fishermen in the TURF benefit from the no-take reserve

Fishermen are incentivized to enforce the no-take reserve

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No-take reserves

No-take reserve TURF

TURF No-take reserve

How are TURFs designed to meet fishery goals?

Secure

Exclusive

All Sources

Scaled

Accountable

Limited

Transferable

Secure

Exclusive

All Sources

Scaled

Accountable

Limited

Transferable

Secure

Exclusive

All Sources

Scaled

Accountable

Limited

Transferable

Secure

Exclusive

All Sources

Scaled

Accountable

Limited

Transferable

TURFs are scaled appropriately

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Japanese Common Fishing Rights System

Pescadores de Vigía Chico, Punta Allen, México

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Scaled

Scaling according to the biology of the stock is important for sustainability

Scaled

Scaling according to social factors affects incentives

Biological functional unit

A self-sustaining fish stock

Social functional unit

A group of people with the ability to organize

Sometimes design is simple

Punta Allen Spiny Lobster Cooperative, México

(Sosa Cordero & Ramirez Gonzalez 1993)

But most fisheries are more complex

Japanese common fishing rights system

DTPs

(Yamamoto 1995)

Scaled

Coordination between TURFs can solve mismatches between biological and social functional units

(Yamamoto 1995)

Secure

Exclusive

All Sources

Scaled

Accountable

Limited

Transferable

The role of Cooperatives

K. Beadle

Share responsibility

Organize to fulfill responsibilities

Ensure compliance with controls on fishing mortality and enforce boundaries

The role of Cooperatives

Share responsibility

Organize to fulfill responsibilities

Ensure compliance with controls on fishing mortality and enforce boundaries

K. Beadle

Secure

Exclusive

All Sources

Scaled

Accountable

Limited

Transferable

Secure

Exclusive

All Sources

Scaled

Accountable

Limited

Transferable

Secure

Exclusive

All Sources

Scaled

Accountable

Limited

Transferable

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