Sustainable commercial fishing, species conservation, and bycatch
are contentious topics. Great emphasis has been placed on the
sustainable sourcing of particular species that we buy at the store
and order in restaurants, but how can we trust that the fish on our
plates, from a system-wide perspective, have been appropriately
sourced? Even in what are commonly considered to be the
best-managed fisheries in the world (i.e., Alaskan fisheries),
thousands of tons of fish are wasted each year in the interest of
providing certain species in certain ways to certain people, at
certain prices. Are the management practices and regulations that
we think are helping actually having the desired outcomes in terms
of the effective use of natural resources? This book presents a
framework that can enhance our understanding, research, and
regulation of frontline organizing processes in commercial
fisheries, which may be generalized to other resource extraction
industries. It enables readers to better grasp and respond to the
need to develop practices and regulations that involve effective
use of all natural resources, rather than just a chosen few. The
book is especially important to researchers and practitioners
active in the fishing industry, and natural resource managers and
regulators interested in understanding and improving their
management systems. It is also highly relevant to organization and
management researchers interested in coupled human and natural
systems, ecological sensemaking, the role of quantum mechanics in
organizational phenomena, sociomateriality, and sustainability. The
book uses the real-world case of an Alaskan fishing fleet to
explore how the commercial fishing industry (which includes
businesses, management agencies, regulatory bodies, and markets,
among others) entangles itself with natural phenomena in order to
extract resources from them. After gaining a better understanding
of these processes can we see how they can be improved, especially
through changes to regulatory management systems, in order to
foster not only more sustainable, but also less wasteful (these two
goals are not necessarily interdependent in today's regulatory
management systems), natural resource extraction and use. Such an
understanding requires exploring how regulations, natural
phenomena, human sensemaking processes, and market forces entangle
at sea to materialize the fish that make their way to our plates -
as well as those that, importantly, do not.
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