TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding Fisher Behavior
T2 - The Case of Snapper Fishers in Indonesia
AU - Madsen, Jens Koed
AU - Ekawaty, Rani
AU - Ananthanarayanan, Aarthi
AU - Bailey, Richard
AU - Carrella, Ernesto
AU - Dorsett, Chris
AU - Drexler, Michael
AU - Mous, Peter
AU - Muawanah, Umi
AU - Saul, Steven
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is funded in part by the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, Ocean Conservancy, and the US Agency for International Development.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 MRE Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - It is important to incorporate fisher motivations and behavior into fisheries management models. Incorrect be-havioral assumptions may yield ineffective incentives or interventions or even produce unintended conse-quences. To understand fisher behavior in a developing country, we surveyed 93 Indonesian snapper fishers. Results suggest they consider competing aspects such as income, personal reputation, and sociocultural norms when deciding where and what to fish; they update beliefs about location, bountifulness, and catchability of target fish stocks through direct observations, inferences over geographical similarities, and social interactions with other fishers, and they evaluate satisfaction economically as well as socially. Information sharing and social knowledge are likely port-specific, representing local sociocultural norms rather than being related to vessel size, target catch, or other demographics. The prevalence of information sharing and imitation patterns sug-gests that fisher decision-making in Indonesian snapper fisheries has a significant sociocultural component. We discuss implications for fisheries management models and for policy decisions.
AB - It is important to incorporate fisher motivations and behavior into fisheries management models. Incorrect be-havioral assumptions may yield ineffective incentives or interventions or even produce unintended conse-quences. To understand fisher behavior in a developing country, we surveyed 93 Indonesian snapper fishers. Results suggest they consider competing aspects such as income, personal reputation, and sociocultural norms when deciding where and what to fish; they update beliefs about location, bountifulness, and catchability of target fish stocks through direct observations, inferences over geographical similarities, and social interactions with other fishers, and they evaluate satisfaction economically as well as socially. Information sharing and social knowledge are likely port-specific, representing local sociocultural norms rather than being related to vessel size, target catch, or other demographics. The prevalence of information sharing and imitation patterns sug-gests that fisher decision-making in Indonesian snapper fisheries has a significant sociocultural component. We discuss implications for fisheries management models and for policy decisions.
KW - Choice preferences
KW - decision-making
KW - economic factors
KW - field study
KW - fisher behavior
KW - Indonesia
KW - semi-structured interviews
KW - sociocultural factors
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U2 - 10.1086/722725
DO - 10.1086/722725
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85146304448
SN - 0738-1360
VL - 38
SP - 85
EP - 100
JO - Marine Resource Economics
JF - Marine Resource Economics
IS - 1
ER -