Fishing and Values

• Understand how values play a role in conservation

• Determine your core values

What Are Values?

• Things that drive you as a person, make you who you are

Why Discuss Values?

• Values influence behavior

  • Value→ beliefs/value orientation→ Norm/behavior

• inclusive conservation actions and policy making

• Social acceptance of management plans

• You need to understand values and what u believe

Value Orientations

• Domination value orientations are tied to a belief that ildlife exists for human use

• Mutualist value→ view wilfdlife as deserving of certain rights or opportunities

Values-Rules-Knowledge

Privatization: fishers are given onership rights to harvest an allocation of fishery resources

• Does not eliminate cheating and illegal fishing

• can marginalize communities/small scale fishers