Capital Effects in Fisheries: The Challenges and Opportunity for Achieving Sustainability in Commercial Fisheries

• Main Authors: Fernandes, Devlin, Sutcliffe, Tasha
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Western CEDAR 2016
• Subjects: Fresh Water Studies; Life Sciences; Marine Biology; Natural Resources and Conservation; British Columbia; Canada; First Nations
• Online Access: https://cedar.wwu.edu/ssec/2016ssec/policy_and_management/21

Coastal communities in BC are facing a loss of adaptive capacity and resiliency in the economy that has traditionally supported them, and a key challenge is access to capital to enter, re-enter, and successfully participate in small scale fisheries. Commercial fishing has always been, and will conti...