Fish trader’s gender and niches in a declining coral reef fishery:implications for sustainability

作     者：Timothy R.McClanahan Caroline Abunge 

作者机构：Wildlife Conservation SocietyMarine ProgramsBronxNYUSA Wildlife Conservation SocietyMarine ProgramsCoral Reef Conservation ProjectMombasaKenya 

出 版 物：《Ecosystem Health and Sustainability》 (生态系统健康与可持续性（英文）)

年 卷 期：2017年第3卷第6期

页      面：10-30页

核心收录：

学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 02[经济学] 0202[经济学-应用经济学] 0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 0713[理学-生态学] 

基　　金：This worked received financial support from the Wildlife Conservation Society through grants from the Tiffany Foundation. 

主　　题：Common pool resources equity political ecology resource competition gender roles social disparity 

摘      要：Introduction:The state of natural resources is greatly influenced by market access.Consequently,resource trader s incentives,decisions,and willingness to comply with manage-ment an influence efforts to achieve sustainabi lity.Trader s impacts will depend on their economic niches,which are influenced by cultural norms,skill,social relationshi ps,profitability,and the spatial scale of markets.Consequently,we examined the potential of traders to influence fisheries sustainability by evaluating their jobs,gender roles,religion,socioeconomic status,association and perceptions of management systems,and future plans.We studied 142 traders in 19 Kenyan coral reef fisheries landing sites distributed among four gear management systems.Outcomes:We found a strong role of gender,geography,and religion in the participation of these fisheries that was primarily driven by fisheries profitability.The associations suggest that overfished fisheries should retain traders with low education,capital,and savings-often women;whereas sustainable stocks favor the opposite characteristics,and often men.Conclusions:Therefore,managing for increasing yields,profits,and sustainability could exclude women traders unless they successfully access or adopt the more traditional male economic niche.Gender coexistence is most likely to be achieved by managing for inter-mediate resource levels where net production,catch,and fish body size diversity are high.Further,reducing risk and increasing the capital and mobility of women traders should reduce their chances of exclusion when fisheries are sustainable.