Overfishing Drivers and Opportunities for Recovery in Small-Scale Fisheries of the Midriff Islands Region, Gulf of California, Mexico: the Roles of Land and Sea Institutions in Fisheries Sustainability

Overfishing Drivers and Opportunities for Recovery in Small-Scale Fisheries of the Midriff Islands Region, Gulf of California, Mexico: the Roles of Land and Sea Institutions in Fisheries Sustainability

Institutions play an important role in shaping individual incentives in complex social-ecological systems, by encouraging or discouraging resource overuse. In the Gulf of California, Mexico, there is widespread evidence of declines in small-scale fishery stocks, largely attributed to policy failures...

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Main Authors: Ana Cinti, Jennifer N. Duberstein, Esteban Torreblanca, Marcia Moreno-Báez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2014-03-01
Series:Ecology and Society
Subjects:
communal land tenure
ejido
formal and informal rules-in-use
Gulf of California
Mexico
resource stewardship
small-scale fisheries
social-ecological systems
sustainability<br /><br /> tenencia comunal de la tierra
reglas formales e informales en uso
Golfo de California
México
sentido de responsabilidad sobre los recursos
pesquerías artesanales
sistemas socio-ecológicos
sustentabilidad
Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss1/art15/

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