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How to Capture Small-Scale Fisheries’ Many Contributions to Society? – Introducing the ‘Value-Contribution Matrix’ and Applying It to the Case of a Swimming Crab Fishery in South Korea

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Social Wellbeing and the Values of Small-scale Fisheries

Part of the book series: MARE Publication Series ((MARE,volume 17))

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To facilitate a systematic and comprehensive capturing of small-scale fisheries’ societal contributions, this chapter proposes a ‘value-contribution matrix’ and applies it to the case of a swimming crab fishery in South Korea. In the matrix, objective, subjective, and relational values are identified for the major stakeholder categories such as fishers, a coastal community and the wider society. Through consideration of these values, multifaceted contributions of the swimming crab fishery were examined and their governance implications drawn. Around the world, small-scale fisheries have been unduly dismissed in policy despite their ubiquity. This analytical tool could prove to be an accessible and pragmatic heuristic for highlighting their varied (both positive and negative) contributions. Learning about which values are being emphasized or neglected, and for whom, and the consequences they generate for stakeholders’ wellbeing, could point to alternate ways of creating a more governable fishery and help to alleviate fishery sustainability challenges.

The initial draft of this chapter was written when the author was a postdoctoral visitor at the York Centre for Asian Research, York University, Toronto, Canada

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Acknowledgements

This research was facilitated by the kind fellowship support of the York Centre for Asian Research and the Asian Business & Management Program through the YCAR/ABMP Postdoctoral Visitor in Asian Governance program. I would like to thank Ratana Chuenpagdee for her useful feedback on an earlier version of this manuscript and the editors of this book for valuable editorial suggestions. I also thank all the interviewees and key informants.

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  1. ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

    Andrew M. Song

  2. WorldFish, c/o ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, Townsville, Australia

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    Tim G. Acott

  3. Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

    Natasha Stacey

  4. Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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Song, A.M. (2018). How to Capture Small-Scale Fisheries’ Many Contributions to Society? – Introducing the ‘Value-Contribution Matrix’ and Applying It to the Case of a Swimming Crab Fishery in South Korea. In: Johnson, D., Acott, T., Stacey, N., Urquhart, J. (eds) Social Wellbeing and the Values of Small-scale Fisheries. MARE Publication Series, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60750-4_6

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