Abstract
In the early 1990s, Galician Regional Government introduced a community-based fishery management system for some sedentary-invertebrate resources. This meant the introduction of territorial use rights, which provided greater autonomy to decision-making, regulation, control, management and resources assessment. Nevertheless, after three decades, shallow achievements were built upon the collaboration between science and fisheries. The GAP Galician Case Study was born as an attempt to strengthen long-term collaboration among fishermen, scientist, and policy-makers. Taking into account the background and lessons learnt in similar processes, the research team tried together with relevant fishing actors, to collect meaningful information, to initially conduct a building process of a marine reserve, establishing new management formulas through the exploration of use rights for local users. Social and political constraints resulted in an adjustment of the original approach, focusing the CS on the collection of information on marine ecosystems and fisheries. Recovering local knowledge through the design and implementation of participatory tools, it was possible to address accurate spatial information about marine ecosystems and fishing activity, always challenging to achieve in small-scale fisheries. Beside technical outcomes, the Galician CS was an experiment to put some light into process-oriented approaches that enable collaboration among fishermen, scientists and policy-makers.
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Ley Orgánica 1/1981, de 6 de abril, de Estatuto de Autonomía para Galicia «BOE» núm. 101, de 28 de abril de 1981 Última modificación: 17 de julio de 2010 Referencia: BOE-A-1981-9564
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Strip of sea adjacent to the territory and internal waters of the coastal State, where the State exercises full sovereignty both over surface waters, supra-adjacent air space, seabed and subsoil. The maximum limit of the territorial sea is 12 miles (UNCLOS, art. 2, 3 y 4). Article 149.1.19ª of the Constitution grants the State exclusive competence in matters of marine fishing, “notwithstanding the competences granted to the Autonomous Communities within the regulation of the sector” (Suarez de Vivero and Martinez 2007)
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Technical assistances, subsidized since 1993 by the government, have the role of scientific-technical advisors who act as liaisons between fishermen’ organizations and the administration. Hence, they have a prominent role in the management of some resources, particularly those under community exploitation models based on TURFs.
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Vidal, D., Pita, P., Freire, J., Muiño, R. (2020). Understanding Fishermen-Scientist Collaboration in Galician Small-Scale Fisheries (NW Spain): Validating a Methodological Toolbox Through a Process-Oriented Approach. In: Holm, P., Hadjimichael, M., Linke, S., Mackinson, S. (eds) Collaborative Research in Fisheries. MARE Publication Series, vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26784-1_5
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