Browsing by Author "Donlan, C. Josh"

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    Estimating illegal fishing from enforcement officers
    (2020) Donlan, C. Josh; Wilcox, Chris; Luque, Gloria M.; Gelcich, Stefan
    While illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing is a premier issue facing ocean sustainability, characterizing it is challenging due to its clandestine nature. Current approaches can be resource intensive and sometimes controversial. Using Chile as an example, we present a structured process leveraging existing capacity, fisheries officers, that provides a monitoring tool to produce transparent and stand-alone estimates on the level, structure, and characteristics of illegal fishing. We provide a national illegal fishing baseline for Chile, estimating illegal activity for 20 fisheries, representing similar to 70% of annual national landings. For four fisheries, we also estimate the relative importance of illegal activities across sectors, stakeholders, and infrastructure. While providing new information, our results also confirm previous evidence on the general patterns of illegality. Our approach provides an opportunity for government agencies to formalize their institutional knowledge, while accounting for potential biases and reducing fragmentation of knowledge that can prevent effective enforcement. Estimating illegal activity directly from fisheries enforcement officers is complementary to existing approaches, providing a cost-effective, rapid, and rigorous method to measure, monitor, and inform solutions to reduce IUU fishing.
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    Research on Seafood Fraud Deserves Better
    (2017) Donlan, C. Josh; Luque, Gloria M.; Wilcox, Chris; Gelcich, Stefan; Koch, George W.; Hungate, Bruce A.
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    Restaurateurs' context, decisions, and views on supporting sustainable seafood: Insights from Chile
    (2022) Donlan, C. Josh; Sorice, Michael G.; Contreras-Drey, Francisco J.; Oyanedel, Rodrigo; Avila-Thieme, M. Isidora; Gelcich, Stefan
    While restauranteurs are important actors in seafood systems, information on their decisions and views on sustainability is lacking. Using mixed methods, we explored Chilean restauranters' contexts, decisions, and views on seafood sustainability. Menus in Chile are diverse and dominated by domestic and wild-caught sources. Restauranters are willing to participate in traceability programs, especially when it is for both sustainability and health safety reasons. Restauranters believe that seafood is an elite resource and high prices are inhibiting access. They also believe patrons care little about seafood sustainability yet are willing to pay a premium for it. This contradiction suggests a mechanism for activating values via situational factors. While demand and benefits for seafood traceability programs appear present, challenges threaten successful implementation. Complex socio-economic factors, such as affordability, elitism, and inequity, need to be integrated into traceability program design to contribute to the necessary transformation of seafood systems.
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    Scaling participation in payments for ecosystem services programs
    (2018) Sorice, Michael G.; Donlan, C. Josh; Boyle, Kevin J.; Xu, Weibin; Gelcich, Stefan