To fish or not to fish: factors at multiple scales affecting artisanal fishers' readiness to exit a declining fishery.

Globally, fisheries are challenged by the combined impacts of overfishing, degradation of ecosystems and impacts of climate change, while fisheries livelihoods are further pressured by conservation policy imperatives. Fishers' adaptive responses to these pressures, such as exiting from a fisher...

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Main Authors: Tim M Daw, Joshua E Cinner, Timothy R McClanahan, Katrina Brown, Selina M Stead, Nicholas A J Graham, Joseph Maina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3277441?pdf=render