Is the instrumental approach a ‘silver bullet’for addressing non-compliance in recreational fisheries: A South African case study

Bova, Christopher S; Stephens, Jed; Aswani, Shankar; Potts, Warren M

Title: Is the instrumental approach a ‘silver bullet’for addressing non-compliance in recreational fisheries: A South African case study
Creator: Bova, Christopher S
Creator: Stephens, Jed
Creator: Aswani, Shankar
Creator: Potts, Warren M
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2022
Date: 2022
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/391359
Identifier: vital:68644
Identifier: xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2022.106439"
Description: Non-compliance with recreational fishery regulations is considered to be one of the biggest threats to the sustainability of fisheries. Dedicated non-compliance studies are seldom carried out at the national level which makes it difficult to discern the behavioural compliance norms within a population. The instrumental approach for compliance is the traditional paradigm in recreational fisheries. It postulates that increased enforcement activities and the corresponding punishment will improve compliance behaviour, although there is little empirical evidence for such a supposition within the recreational fisheries context. Using face-to-face encounter surveys employing the ballot box method for reducing social desirability bias (SDB), South African marine shore-based fishery (MSBF) participants were questioned on their compliance behaviour with a set of regulations pertaining to the fishery. Overall non-compliance levels were very high (52%), and non-compliance levels with individual regulations varied based on provincial locality. Perceptions and observations of enforcement activity had no significant impact on compliance behaviour. Participants that had previously been caught by law enforcement violating the regulations were still more likely to violate the regulations than participants that had not faced enforcement action. Results indicate that calls for increased enforcement as a means of improving compliance behaviour are questionable in the South African MSBF, and further emphasise the need to develop alternative approaches, such as those pertaining to normative theory, within recreational fisheries.
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Format: 1 online resource (9 pages)
Format: pdf
Publisher: Elsevier
Language: English
Relation: Fisheries Research
Relation: Bova, C.S., Stephens, J., Aswani, S. and Potts, W.M., 2022. Is the instrumental approach a ‘silver bullet’for addressing non-compliance in recreational fisheries: A South African case study. Fisheries Research, 255, p.106439
Relation: Fisheries Research volume 255 p. 106439 2022 1872-6763
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