Fishery Cooperatives Research Articles

Verifying conditions for membership in Japanese river fishery cooperatives

Verifying conditions for membership in Japanese river fishery cooperatives

Consensus based assessment of constraints faced by Marine Fisheries Cooperative Societies in Maharashtra, India

Consensus based assessment of constraints faced by Marine Fisheries Cooperative Societies in Maharashtra, India

Fethiye Körfezi Uzatma Ağları Balıkçılığı

Balıkçılık kaynaklarının iyi yönetilebilmesi için stok ve avlanan balık miktarı kadar, balıkçılık filosunun ve kullanılan av araçlarının karakteristik yapısının da iyi derecede bilinmesine gereksinim vardır. Bu çalışma, Fethiye Körfezi’nde kullanılan uzatma ağlarının mevcut durumunu ve teknik yapısını ortaya koymayı amaçlamaktadır. Bu sayede ülkemizin önemli turizm merkezlerinden bir olan Fethiye’nin sürdürülebilir balıkçılığına katkı sağlanması hedeflenmiştir. Veriler, Fethiye’deki Su Ürünleri Kooperatiflerine kayıtlı üyeler ile Mayıs-Ağustos 2019 yılında yapılan görüşmeler ile elde edilmiştir. Bölgede kayıtlı toplam 141 balıkçı teknesi bulunmaktadır. Bunlardan 139’u küçük ölçekli balıkçılık ile uğraşmakta ve 100 teknede uzatma ağları ile avcılık yapıldığı tespit edilmiştir. Uluslararası uzatma ağı sınıflandırmasına göre 6 adet fanyalı ve 3 adet galsama uzatma ağı olmak üzere toplam 9 farklı uzatma ağının teknik plan ve detay çizimleri elde edilmiştir. Fethiye Körfezi balıkçılığında toplam 124775 m uzatma ağı kullanılmakta bunların %80’ini fanyalı ağlar oluşturmaktadır. Sonuç olarak, Fethiye Körfezi sürdürülebilir balıkçılık kaynakları yönetiminde küçük ölçekli balıkçı tekneleri ve fanyalı uzatma ağları önemli bir yer teşkil etmektedir.

Transboundary Fisheries Management

Abstract Malaysia’s unique geographical position, straddling across several seas within the Indian and Pacific Oceans, allows her to play an important role within the set of regional, sub-regional and bilateral arrangements for transboundary fisheries management in the Indo-Pacific theatre. This article first charts and then examines Malaysia’s participation within these fisheries management initiatives, beginning from the overarching international legal frameworks of unclos and the Fish Stocks Agreement, through the formal and informal regional and sub-regional fisheries management organizations, and finally, to bilateral arrangements for fisheries co-operation. Along the way, Malaysia’s policy, legal and institutional capacity, as well as her readiness to perform the role(s) required of her, in relation to regional, sub-regional, and bilateral fisheries management issues, are critically assessed.

MANAJEMEN RISIKO PERIKANAN TANGKAP (STUDI KASUS DI TENGAH PANDEMI COVID-19)

The spread of the Coronavirus outbreak has had an impact on the fisheries sector. The spread of the Corona Virus has brought new challenges and risks in social life, including capture fisheries products. Disruption of supply chain between business actors and consumers due to restrictions on human mobility that were implemented to overcome the Covid-19 outbreak. This reserach aims to analyze the fisheries risk management case study in pandemic Covid-19. This research was conducted in April - September 2020. The data used are primary and secondary data. Primary data obtained by taking non-probability sampling techniques to 50 respondents of capture fisheries business actors, using health protocols. Secondary data were obtained using literature studies. The analytical tool used in this research is descriptive analysis. Based on the results of research, the risks received by capture fisheries business actors include the risk of the capture fisheries production process during the Covid-19 pandemic, the risk of collaborating with capture fisheries production during the Covid-19 pandemic, the risk of decision making during the Covid-19 pandemic, the risk of product market capture fisheries during a pandemic. Adaptation strategies should be done undertaken by fishery business actors by optimizing the function and role of fishery cooperatives, strengthening marine and fisheries financial institutions, strategies for adapting fisheries marketing through a warehouse receipt system.

Identification of Shared Spatial Dynamics in Temperature, Salinity, and Ichthyoplankton Community Diversity in the California Current System With Empirical Dynamic Modeling

Identifying spatially shared dynamics is a key component of community ecology studies as they provide evidence of common responses to environmental factors. We apply co-prediction, an empirical dynamic modeling method (EDM), where values in one time series are predicted from another to quantify shared dynamics in the California Cooperative Fishery Oceanographic Investigation (CalCOFI) dataset composed of spatially explicit physical and biological measurements. Co-prediction can arise in the absence of correlation between two time series. The survey dates to 1951 and consists of a semi-regular, fixed-station design off the west coast of the USA. While the California Current is a dynamic system with multiple identified regimes, we found evidence of coherence measured in terms of spatially shared dynamics in salinity, temperature, Shannon index of ichthyoplankton abundance, and single-species ichthyoplankton abundance throughout the CalCOFI survey area. Leave-one-out hindcast skill, without including any knowledge of shared dynamics was significant in 27 stations for salinity data, 36 for temperature data, and 33 for Shannon index (out of 81 total stations). We then constructed composite libraries, in which correlated or co-predicted time series are concatenated to produce denser attractors), to measure the hindcast skill when including knowledge of shared dynamics. While the number of correlated stations was generally higher than the number of co-predicted stations, hindcast skill from composite libraries of correlated stations did not improve much. On the other hand, composite libraries of co-predicted stations had significant leave-one-out hindcast skill in 60 stations for salinity data, 60 for temperature, and 72 for Shannon index. While there were high levels of correlation among stations, co-prediction proved a more robust method of identifying shared dynamics. Shared dynamics were largely concentrated south of Point Conception, considered an oceanographic and biological breakpoint, although in some cases shared dynamics spanned this boundary. Taken together, these results provide a view of the realized spatial structure occurring in the physical and biological dynamics of the California Current.

A Study on Financial Performance of Kerala State Co-operative Federation for Fisheries Development Limited (MATSYAFED)

Fishing is a traditional activity in Kerala because from time immemorial fishermen community involved in both marine and inland fishing for their livelihood. To develop the fishermen community and to solve their socio-economic problems, fisheries co-operatives were established. MATSYAFED is acting as the apex level institution for all the primary level fishermen co-operatives in Kerala. A humble attempt was made to conduct a study on “Financial Performance Evaluation of Kerala State Co-operative Federation for Fisheries Development Limited (MATSYAFED)” to evaluate its financial performance. The tools used for the analysis of the data were ratio analysis and compound annual growth rate (CAGR). From the financial performance analysis, it is evident that they have a strong short-term liquidity position and have a good inventory turnover ratio. The debt-equity ratio is higher than the rule of thumb (1:1). i.e., debt is higher than equity. The ratio analysis reveals that the MATSYAFED is efficiently managing its funds to various schemes and programs for the development of the fishermen community. As a whole, compared with many other apex cooperative federations, MATSYAFED is performing better, thanks to the management team.

남북 해양수산 협력에 대한 상호주의적 고찰 : 명분과 실리를 중심으로

The purpose of this study was to analyze how inter-Korean maritime affairs & fisheries cooperation should be promoted in order to increase feasibility. The hypothesis is that the feasibility of cooperation with the analysis framework of justification(political interest) and practical benefit(economic benefit) can be increased with the theory of reciprocity pursuing benefits together from both sides, rather than from either side. The result is judged to be theoretical because the analysis framework of justification and practical benefit is valid in analyzing historical progress and can be compared with prior research. However, the need for a more extended theory was raised when that theory was applied to the issue of establishing a peace zone in the West Sea under the Panmunjom Declaration. In other words, there is a significant difference in the size of reciprocity, not just the existence of justification and practical benefit. Therefore, a model is presented in this study to analyze the possibility of cooperation in cases where the size of the justification and practical benefit was relatively different.

漁協女性部の組織・運営体制づくりとその課題 愛媛県南予地域における事例をもとに

漁協女性部の組織・運営体制づくりとその課題 愛媛県南予地域における事例をもとに

Equilibrium and the Adjustment Process in the Number and Scope of Co-operatives in Morocco

The paper discusses the government policy that encourages the emergence of co-operatives and analyzes the co-operatives in light of their growth in number. It establishes a static equilibrium and highlights the co-operatives’ adjustment process (dynamic equilibrium).The methodology/approach consists of the development of a theoretical model, using the Nash equilibrium for the co-operative market, and the determination of a static equilibrium. It presents the data which includes variable measurements for the adjustment process for agricultural, artisanal, and fishery co-operatives in order to analyze the stochastic process of entry-and-exit flow of co-operatives. Accordingly, the paper estimates the co-operatives’ growth index speed of adjustment (SOA) as a function of the mean-reversion Ornstein–Uhlenbeck (OU) process.The theoretical results indicate that co-operatives’ earnings depend on the number of co-operatives, market-demand, and the capacity constraint. They also show that the margin for new entrants is a dynamic gap that especially depends on demand, capacity constraint and the profits. The empirical results indicate that co-operatives growth-index process is significantly mean reverting for all sectors, and the speed of adjustment for artisanal co-operatives is significantly higher than for those in agriculture and the fisheries.

업종별 수협의 생산성 추정에 관한 연구

The purpose of this study is to estimate and compare the productivity of our country"s industrial fishery cooperatives. Therefore, this study examine the changes in productivity of 20 industrial fishery cooperatives for the last six years from 2013 to 2018, and analyze the factors that influenced these changes in productivity. The results of the study showed us a reduction in overall total factor productivity by 21% between 2013 and 2018. However, while the total component productivity for each year decreased in 2014 and 2017 compared to the previous year, 2015, 2016 and 2018 increased. Therefore, we could see that the fishery cooperatives have improved productivity due to recent management improvements. In analyzing the productivity each of 20 industrial fishery cooperatives, DMU18(Jeju fish aquaculture cooperatives) increased the most, and this is due to an increase in production of halibut which is a major production variety.

Empirical Analysis on the Factors Affecting the Net Income of Regional and Industrial Fisheries Cooperatives Using Panel Data

Empirical Analysis on the Factors Affecting the Net Income of Regional and Industrial Fisheries Cooperatives Using Panel Data

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Although fish is economically and socially important, its marketing chain and their characteristics have not yet been studied and analyzed for Lake Zeway, Central Ethiopia, where great potential of fish production exists. The study was initiated to investigate the fish marketing chain in this area. This was done by identifying the marketing channels of fish and the major factors influencing its market supply. Data were collected from 90 households and 24 traders using a simple random sampling method. Results indicate that fishers, fishery cooperatives, retailers, wholesalers and consumers were the main actors of the fish marketing channel. Among the explanatory variables included in the econometric model, five variables (income from non-fish marketing, access to extension service, access to credit, price of fishes and access to market) were found to significantly influence the marketable supply of fish. The study identified the need for policy interventions by the Ethiopian government to improve storage and transportation systems as well as render other services like training, which would encourage fishers to be legal in order to improve harvesting and marketing of fish in the study area.   Key words: Fish, fish marketing, Lake Zeway, market chain, multiple linear regression analysis.&nbsp

Analysis of Fish Market Chain: The Case of Gilgel Gibe Dam I Reservoir Southwest of Ethiopia

This study was aimed at analysis of fish market chain in Gilgel Gibe dam I reservoir Southwest of Ethiopia with specific objectives of investigating the fish market channels and performance and analyzing the determinants of fish supply to the market. A three stage sampling procedure which includes both purposive and random sampling were used to select sample respondents. Primary data were collected from 128 randomly selected individuals’ interview using structured questionnaire via enumerators and secondary data were acquired from published and unpublished sources. Descriptive statistics and econometric analysis were used to analyze the data. The result of fish marketing channels and performance analysis shows 196,885 kg of fish were produced by the respondent which is 79% passed through twelve main alternative marketing channels and 16.4% was consumed by producer. The result of GMM shows the producer get the higher margin (at channel II and XII which is 75% and 73.7%) when they sell to cooperatives and collectors and in general restaurants and hotels get the highest margin in this fish value chain (i.e. 142-146%). The result of multiple linear regression model indicated that volume of fish supply in this study area is positively and significantly affected by fishing experience, price of fish in 2017, producer membership to fishery cooperative and access to credit service. Therefore; it needs strong government intervention on supporting fishermen in providing modern input and technologies, empowering fishery cooperatives, strengthening of market extension and linking them with financial service provider and improving extension system are recommended to accelerate the fishery value chain’s development thus income of individual fishermen could be enhanced.

Routines and Incentives, and Their Influence on Compliance with the Doctrinal Principles of Fisheries Cooperatives

Fisheries cooperatives play an important role in Mexico, given that they are capable of generating employment, supplying food, stimulating local commerce, and promoting democracy and social integration in the communities where they operate. Fisheries production cooperatives form part of a sector called the social economy. Nevertheless, like all organizations, they face problems in terms of management, worker relations, rule implementation, and continuance over time. The aim of this study is to analyze and identify the degree of influence that exists between the informal constraints of fisheries production cooperatives (specifically in the form of institutional routines and incentives) and compliance with their doctrinal principles. This study uses a non-experimental quantitative, cross-sectional, correlational-explanatory approach. The research methods consisted of the construction of associated indices, descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and multiple linear regression analysis. Three hypotheses were proposed. With regard to H1, the results showed that informal constraints in the form of routines are moderately correlated with the level of compliance with the formal rules. Regarding the results for H2, it was confirmed that informal constraints in the form of incentives are very weakly correlated with the level of compliance with the formal rules. And with regard to H3, based on a joint analysis of the variables, only routines significantly influenced compliance with these doctrinal principles. Based on the above, it was concluded that routines and not incentives are the factors that exert the greatest influence on compliance with the doctrinal principles of cooperatives.

An Artificial Intelligence Method for the Prediction of Near- and Off-Shore Fish Catch Using Satellite and Numerical Model Data

The production of near- and off-shore fisheries in South Korea is decreasing due to rapid changes in the fishing environment, particularly including higher sea temperature in recent years. To improve the competitiveness of the fisheries, it is necessary to provide fish catch information that changes spatiotemporally according to the sea state. In this study, artificial intelligence models that predict the CPUE (catch per unit effort) of mackerel, anchovies, and squid (Todarodes pacificus), which are three major fish species in the nearand off-shore areas of South Korea, on a 15-km grid and daily basis were developed. The models were trained and validated using the sea surface temperature, rainfall, relative humidity, pressure, sea surface wind velocity, significant wave height, and salinity as input data, and the fish catch statistics of Suhyup (National Federation of Fisheries Cooperatives) as observed data. The 10-fold blind test results showed that the developed artificial intelligence models exhibited accuracy with a corresponding correlation coefficient of 0.86. It is expected that the fish catch models can be actually operated with high accuracy under various sea conditions if high-quality large-volume data are available.

International Sanction on North Korea and Inter-Korea Fisheries Cooperation

International Sanction on North Korea and Inter-Korea Fisheries Cooperation

Determining potential conflicts between small-scale fisheries and sea-cage fish farms in the Aegean Sea

Background. Fish farms attract both juvenile and adult wild fishes in great numbers and diversity. These wild fishes also become an easy target stock for local fishers, both professional and recreational. There are three groups of interest in this study, the fish farmers, small-scale fishermen (professional), and recreational fishers (mostly anglers but also spear fishers). This study was intended to determine conflicts derived from the adverse social and bioecological interactions from the perspective of both local fishermen and fish farmers and to determine the observed incidence of predators. Materials and methods. In this study, 48 randomly selected fish farms, 28 fishery cooperatives, and 33 fishing ports located close to aquaculture areas were visited for face-to-face interviews with the fishermen of small-scale fisheries (SSF) between July 2015 and July 2017. The main purpose of the survey questionnaire was to ask SSF fishermen for their opinion about offshore aquaculture and vice versa—ask the fish farmers about SSF, emphasizing issues potentially creating problems. Data were collected mainly on sociodemographic profiles, current problems, reciprocal conflict issues, the impact of offshore fish farming on SSF activities, and on bioecological interactions such as predator attacks and problems with farm fish escapes. Results. Approximately 77% of fishermen in Izmir and 71% of fishermen in Muğla declared that they had problems with the sea-cage fish farms. On the other hand, 40% of fish farmers in Izmir and 54% of fish farmers in Muğla reported problems with local SSF. The fishermen believe that in recent years, Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus), sea turtle (Caretta caretta), and invasive fish (pufferfish, etc.) populations have been increasing in Muğla. Additionally, 46% of Muğla fish farmers and 60% of Izmir fish farmers acknowledged cases of fishes escaping from sea-cages. In terms of the predators, 84% of Muğla and 75% of Izmir’s fishermen expressed their concerns regarding predator attacks on the sea-cage farms. Conclusion. Further studies, based on socioeconomic issues, are needed for better understanding the dimensions of incomes and economic losses of SSF and cooperation issues in the area where the interaction is high. We suggest that all stakeholders, small-scale fishermen, in particular, must be integrated with a management plan, and the cooperation among both fishing groups should be encouraged.

Fisheries women groups in Japan: a shift from well-being to entrepreneurship

Women’s groups in rural fishery areas were established in the mid-1950s. By 1959, they became integrated in local Fishery Cooperative Associations as parallel organizations. These Fisheries Cooperative Associations, established in 1948, represent all fishers in Japan, who are primarily men. The purpose of the women’s groups was to provide well-being by improving the living conditions of families and communities. While men were busy building the production facilities and the cooperatives, women organized themselves to protect and improve the everyday life of families. From 1995 and the World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, some of these women groups ran economic entrepreneurial activities with the financial support of the State through the cooperatives. This new role of women’s groups aims to improve the economic and social development and environment of families and communities facing depopulation problems who need to increase the number of young people. This paper examines the role of cooperative associations in rural, fishery communities and shows how these associations “handed over” the social responsibilities to the women groups who then developed their social skills and competences. Special emphasis is put on how the women groups changed their activity from social issues to environmental protection, promotion of fishery products, and to entrepreneurial activities. The paper also problematizes the difficulties the women met in order to get their contribution to the fisheries communities and industry recognized, as well as their status.

Revisiting Decentralising Organisations at Chilika Fishery

In India, since the 1990s, the state has formed numerous locally situated organisations for decentralising governance of natural resources (DGNR). However, these organisations largely remain ineffective in addressing resource issues at the local scale, devolution, and participatory governance. Fishery at Chilika lagoon located in the eastern coast of Odisha, India is not any exception. While the state continues to experiment with different forms of local resource governing organisations, the current article investigates two such DGNR organisations, that is, the Chilika Development Authority and Primary Fishery Cooperative located at Chilika to understand varied issues faced by Chilika fisheries. The article argues that contemporary natural resource governing organisational arrangements at Chilika limit decentralisation, which in practice becomes a mere reduction in the scale of territorial extension.