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Г-н Manuel Robert Jänig
Организация:
Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)
Страна:
Германия
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I am working on:
A community-based monitoring and assessment tool (app-based for mobile devices) for tracking progress towards achieving the SDGs in the context of small-scale fisheries. Collected data shall be used to inform governance and management of fisheries resources, especially about the risks arising from human uses of the ocean. Likewise, this trans-disciplinary approach shall foster the science-policy-society nexus through the integration of diverse knowledge.
Г-н Manuel Robert Jänig
1. Defining progress towards securing sustainable small-scale fisheries
As all parts and chapters are important and relevant to the sustainable development of small- scale fisheries, I don't like to rank them, but rather consider them as a whole.
However, when it comes to measuring and evaluating the SSF Guidelines, I believe that chapters 3,4,10,11 and 13 are the most important ones. This is because the mentioned chapters frame the basis for monitoring and evaluating, but also guide cooperation among national and international stakeholders.
Monitoring should preferably take place at the local scale, as this is where the most important action is taken. From there it is then possible to scale up to "higher levels" (national, regional, global).
2. Meaningful and feasible indicators: How can we measure progress?
To monitor and to assess SSF it would be nice to use the SDG framework, and both quantitative and qualitative indicators. Because the SDG framework is not applicable on local scales entirely, the proposed global indicators must be accomplished by easy-to-use and most important understandable indicators. These indicators can be derived from other frameworks such as the EU MSFD or IUCN´s Red List Assessment. (I have suggestions for some indicators, which I describe in an article. However, as this has not yet been published, I do not want to make them public here. But feel free to contact me if you are interested in an exchange.)
None of the indicators should be mandatory as each community has its own context and issues and must decide what is important to them.
To my knowledge, there are only a few existing frameworks that focus on data-deficient SSF. These are:
- Adaptive Fisheries Assessment and Management (AFAM) Toolkit by Gavin McDonald et al. (2017)
- Too Big To Ignore´s Information System on Small-Scale Fisheries (ISSF) and
- the indicators proposed by Ye et al. (2011) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2011.06.004
Other frameworks, like the Community-based Indicators framework (Boyd & Charles 2006), the Fisheries Performance Indicators framework (Anderson et al. 2015) or the Canadian Fisheries Research Network (CFRN) framework (Stephenson et al. 2018) require a rich data set, especially for modeling purposes, which makes them not applicable to most SSF situations.
3. Participatory monitoring: Key elements and experiences
Any monitoring attempt should be transdisciplinary, so key actors are the members of the fishing communities, national statistical offices, ministries and scientists.
Key elements of successful participatory monitoring are public/joint deliberations in order to build trust, and to reduce complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity. Of course, respect is key!