Title
Territorial Use Rights for Fisheries (TURF) in central-southern Chile: Their sustainability status from a transdisciplinary holistic approach
Date Issued
01 October 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Cubillos L.A.
Hernández Aguado S.
Quiñones R.A.
Hernández A.
Universidad de Concepción
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
The Territorial Use Rights for Fisheries (TURF) system are a kind of marine property where user rights are assiged to collective entities of artisanal fishers’ organizations. But their effectivity continues to be limited, which demands a comprehensive evaluation of their social, economic, and ecological performance. Consequently, the practical integration and application of these aspects continue to be a significant challenge for their management. The “RAPFISH” multidimensional scaling technique was applied to assess the sustainability status of 19 TURFs of the Biobio Region (Chile), using 51 transdisciplinary attributes relating to ecological, economic, social, among other dimensions. The results obtained in the two-dimensional arrangement presented a sustainability gradient, due to the marked variations among the different TURFs, and only four cases had very weak sustainability scores. Broadly speaking, this study determined that the social dimension (score: 61.37%) had a “high” influence on the best performance of the TURF system, while the ecological, ethical, and institutional dimensions were rated from ‘regular’ to ‘bad’. Overall, results indicate an average performance in the “medium” sustainability range (score: 54.68%), and these results generated questions about the TURFs’ viability, mainly in those that have not reached their sustainability objectives. Therefore, more local studies are needed on the social dimension of this system, in order to define the effective participatory tools and social management plans in TURFs, which will contribute to improve their performance.
Volume
132
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería marina, naves
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85111054250
Source
Marine Policy
ISSN of the container
0308597X
Sponsor(s)
We thank the leaders and members of the artisanal fishers’ organizations in the TURFs of Cobquecura sector A*, Dichato, Candelaria-Cantera, San Vicente, Maule, Laraquete, Bajo Rumena, Punta Lavapie, Punta Raimenco, Rumena, Los Piures, Puerto Yana, Los Partidos, Puerto Sur, Punta Cadena, Pueblo Norte sector B, Weste Isla Mocha, Isla Mocha Sector Quechol and Isla Mocha Sector Quechol Sur for their trust and commitment in sharing their valuable knowledge about the management areas in the Biobio region. We also thank the students and professionals who volunteered their support during the field trips. This work was partially funded by Centro de Investigación Oceanográfica, COPAS Sur-Austral (ANID PIA APOYO CCTE AFB170006) and the postgraduate scholarship from the Universidad de Concepción provided to MFM. The authors would like to thank J. Antón for his assistance regarding the map elaboration for the creation of Fig. 1 and Fig. 8. (*) From 2018, this management area became part of the Ñuble region (Ley Nro. 21.033). We thank the leaders and members of the artisanal fishers’ organizations in the TURFs of Cobquecura sector A*, Dichato, Candelaria-Cantera, San Vicente, Maule, Laraquete, Bajo Rumena, Punta Lavapie, Punta Raimenco, Rumena, Los Piures, Puerto Yana, Los Partidos, Puerto Sur, Punta Cadena, Pueblo Norte sector B, Weste Isla Mocha, Isla Mocha Sector Quechol and Isla Mocha Sector Quechol Sur for their trust and commitment in sharing their valuable knowledge about the management areas in the Biobio region. We also thank the students and professionals who volunteered their support during the field trips. This work was partially funded by Centro de Investigación Oceanográfica , COPAS Sur-Austral (ANID PIA APOYO CCTE AFB170006 ) and the postgraduate scholarship from the Universidad de Concepción provided to MFM.
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