Impacts of Rationalization on Exposure to High Winds in Alaska’s Crab Fisheries
Objectives : Safety at sea is an often overlooked aspect of well-being that fisheries management actions can affect, even when management actions are not intended to affect safety. Catch shares management has been associated with longer fishing seasons and a decline in the intensity of competition a...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.9211712 2023-05-15T15:43:53+02:00 Impacts of Rationalization on Exposure to High Winds in Alaska’s Crab Fisheries Petesch, Tess Pfeiffer, Lisa 2019 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9211712 https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Impacts_of_Rationalization_on_Exposure_to_High_Winds_in_Alaska_s_Crab_Fisheries/9211712 unknown Taylor & Francis https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1059924x.2019.1646683 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 CC-BY Physiology FOS Biological sciences 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified FOS Earth and related environmental sciences Ecology Sociology FOS Sociology 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified Marine Biology Inorganic Chemistry FOS Chemical sciences Science Policy Text article-journal Journal contribution ScholarlyArticle 2019 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9211712 https://doi.org/10.1080/1059924x.2019.1646683 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Objectives : Safety at sea is an often overlooked aspect of well-being that fisheries management actions can affect, even when management actions are not intended to affect safety. Catch shares management has been associated with longer fishing seasons and a decline in the intensity of competition among fishers. This study assesses changes in exposure of Alaska’s commercial crab fisheries to relatively high-risk weather conditions after rationalization, or catch shares management, was implemented. Methods : We compare the rates of fishing in high-wind conditions in the Bristol Bay red king and the Bering Sea snow/tanner crab fisheries pre- and post-rationalization. We also compare results to a portion of the crab fishery that did not undergo the same change in management. Results : The rate of high wind fishing in the snow/tanner crab fishery fell post-rationalization, but increased in the red king crab fishery. Conclusion : When the red king and snow/tanner crab fisheries are considered together, rationalization led to longer seasons and improved flexibility to choose when to fish according to weather conditions. The snow crab fishery experienced a marked decline in higher-risk fishing after rationalization. Results are contrary to expectations for the king crab fisherybecause the flexibility in trip timing provided by the program produced a shift in their season toward winter months when average wind speeds are higher. Text Bering Sea Red king crab Snow crab Tanner crab DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Bering Sea |
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Objectives : Safety at sea is an often overlooked aspect of well-being that fisheries management actions can affect, even when management actions are not intended to affect safety. Catch shares management has been associated with longer fishing seasons and a decline in the intensity of competition among fishers. This study assesses changes in exposure of Alaska’s commercial crab fisheries to relatively high-risk weather conditions after rationalization, or catch shares management, was implemented. Methods : We compare the rates of fishing in high-wind conditions in the Bristol Bay red king and the Bering Sea snow/tanner crab fisheries pre- and post-rationalization. We also compare results to a portion of the crab fishery that did not undergo the same change in management. Results : The rate of high wind fishing in the snow/tanner crab fishery fell post-rationalization, but increased in the red king crab fishery. Conclusion : When the red king and snow/tanner crab fisheries are considered together, rationalization led to longer seasons and improved flexibility to choose when to fish according to weather conditions. The snow crab fishery experienced a marked decline in higher-risk fishing after rationalization. Results are contrary to expectations for the king crab fisherybecause the flexibility in trip timing provided by the program produced a shift in their season toward winter months when average wind speeds are higher. |
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