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Theme (node) |
Description |
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Politics |
References and comments with regard to the
role of politics in the creation of the Western Gulf of Maine Area Closure (WGoMAC). The major issue was a perception
that the closure was already predetermined when the process
began.
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Knowledge |
References and comments illustrating the
different views of the knowledge related issues in the WGoMAC creation. Major
issues were perception that fishers’ ecological knowledge (FEK) is anecdotal, that trust between the parties is
lacking, that knowledge sharing among stakeholders is selective and strategic,
that scientific input was lacking from the closure establishment, and that
communication and information exchange between stakeholders needs to be
improved.
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Problems |
Issues that were identified by different
groups as problematic for achieving stated objectives of the closure include but
are not limited to recreational fishing, midwater trawling, overcapitalization,
shift in fishing effort, and lack of new research activities.
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Solutions |
Potential solutions to aforementioned
problems ranged from closing the WGoMAC to all fishing, limiting entry,
expanding the closure, reducing the closure, shifting the closure to some other
area, to controlling the fishing methods within the closure.
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