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Beyond Recreation : When Fishing Motivations are more than Sport or Pleasure
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2020
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Description:The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA) allows NOAA Fisheries to manage commercial and recreational fishing as separate activities. Yet, numerous studies in the Pacific Islands Region (PIR) have demonstrated this distinction is not clear-cut in practice. Further, policy definitions do not adequately cover other important concepts in the region, such as customary exchange, where the purpose is not sport or pleasure. One of the action items in the NOAA Fisheries 2019–2020 Pacific Islands Regional Recreational and Non-commercial Fishing Engagement Plan is to conduct a study that describes and characterizes fishing activities in the region that do not clearly meet the MSA definition of recreational fishing, and provide policy/management insights about these activities that are central to local fishing communities. This report synthesizes the outcomes of this study. Results demonstrate the relevance of non-commercial fishing and related concepts to other regions and nationally and identify information needs that can guide future coordinated social science research across regions.
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