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Obtaining reliable socioeconomic information on small-scale fisheries for use in decision-making at multiple levels of governance remains a challenge for conventional approaches to data gathering, analysis, and interpretation on a global scale. Fisheries information is most often derived from biophysical data rather than human or socioeconomic sources. Even where socioeconomic data are used, the complexity of small-scale fisheries as adaptive social-ecological systems (SES) presents further challenges to aligning information, interventions, and objectives. This chapter presents the Global Socioeconomic Monitoring Initiative for Coastal Management (SocMon) methodology for assessing the social-ecological dynamics of small-scale fisheries. It uses case studies from the Caribbean region, where SocMon has been applied for over 10 years, and from Brazil, which recently implemented the methodology. The cases examine how three features of SocMon—comprehensive socioeconomic data gathering linked to biophysical parameters, participatory methods that include stakeholders in data collecting and management, and integrated information and knowledge mobilization for decision-making—contribute to better understanding of small-scale fisheries dynamics. The cases outline challenges to implementing SocMon from a fisheries adaptive co-management perspective. The SocMon participatory methodology for monitoring socioeconomic dimensions and dynamics was found suitable for informing adaptive co-management and developing adaptive capacity in small-scale fisheries.
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Focus on MPAs has been partly due to recent coral reef initiatives such as the Coral Triangle, Micronesia Challenge, and Caribbean Challenge. International funding strategies for socioeconomic monitoring such as the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) International Strategy 2010–2015 offer grant funding to support socioeconomic monitoring at MPAs. Since marine livelihoods are linked to MPAs, SocMon assessments have collected valuable socioeconomic data relevant to small-scale fisheries.
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Formerly an 8-year initiative (2002–2010) of the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, funded by the Lighthouse Foundation, Germany, SusGren was later transitioned into a trans-boundary Grenadine (St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada) nongovernmental organization. The overall goal of SusGren Inc. is to promote the conservation of the coastal and marine environment while promoting and supporting sustainable livelihoods within communities of the Grenadine Islands. MarSIS is a participatory geographic information system (PGIS) created with a range of stakeholders to integrate social, economic, cultural, and biophysical resource information and policy to provide resource managers with an information base for coastal marine planning and management in the Grenadines (http://www.grenadinesmarsis.com/).
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The Transformar Network is comprised of a group of researchers and students from four Brazilian universities: UNICAMP, UFSC, FURG, and UFPR.
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Edwards, P., Pena, M., Medeiros, R.P., McConney, P. (2019). Socioeconomic Monitoring for Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries: Lessons from Brazil, Jamaica, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. In: Salas, S., Barragán-Paladines, M., Chuenpagdee, R. (eds) Viability and Sustainability of Small-Scale Fisheries in Latin America and The Caribbean. MARE Publication Series, vol 19. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76078-0_12
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