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Connecting fishers to conserve a transpacific ambassador: A trinational fisheries learning exchange
Institution:1. University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA;2. Grupo Tortuguero de las Californias, La Paz, Baja California Sur, México;3. Sea Turtle Association of Japan, Hirakata, Osaka, Japan;4. ProPeninsula, San Diego, CA, USA;5. Western Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Council, Honolulu, HI, USA;1. Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur (UABCS), Fisheries Engineering Department. La Paz BCS, Km 5.5 carretera al Sur, CP 23080 La Paz, Mexico;2. Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CICIMAR), Fisheries and Marine Biology Department, Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional s/n, Col. Playa Palo de Santa Rita, AP 592. CP 23096 La Paz, B.C.S, Mexico;1. Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Boulevard, Long Beach, CA 90840, USA;2. California Department of Fish and Wildlife, 4665 Lampson Avenue, Suite C, Los Alamitos, CA 90720, USA;1. School of Hospitality and Tourism, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand;2. Coral Triangle Conservancy, Taguig, Philippines
Abstract:Fisheries learning exchanges (FLE) can be useful for enhancing fisheries management. Reversing the decline of the North Pacific loggerhead turtle is a priority articulated in US, Japanese, and Mexican natural resources policy. However, by 2005, while nesting beach protection was strong in Japan and bycatch reduction had been achieved in U.S. Hawaii-based longline fisheries, bycatch mortality was very high in Mexican artisanal fisheries and believed to be problematic in Japanese coastal fisheries. Efforts to conserve the population were hindered by lack of understanding and cooperation by and between fishers, conservation practitioners, scientists, and managers of all three countries. The authors produced a trinational FLE with participants from Japan, Mexico, and Hawaii to share bycatch challenges and develop solutions. The trinational FLE gave fishers and other participants new, otherwise unattainable knowledge, perspectives, and experiences that empowered them as leaders among their peers, resulting in unexpectedly strong cultural and conservation outcomes that included: a) understanding of the myriad threats to loggerheads throughout their ranges and lifetimes, b) development of a transpacific conservation partnerships to undertake coordinated recovery efforts, c) participatory research to develop and test bycatch reduction technological and practical solutions for Japan and Mexico, and d) hundreds of juvenile loggerheads spared per yr from bycatch mortality via changes in fishing practices by FLE participants. The authors conclude that the reciprocal FLE can serve as a practical tool with potential for broad application for empowering fishers and other fisheries stakeholders to improve fisheries.
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