Showing papers by "Atlantic Salmon Federation published in 2016"
TL;DR: The authors investigated the perspectives of managers from three agencies charged with protecting the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) Marine Park and observed that a plurality of place meanings converged on five themes: stewardship of the environment, utilization and access to natural resources, individualized experience, intergenerational connections, and spirituality in place.
Abstract: This article bridges managers’ place meanings and environmental governance to provide insight on the factors that shape decisions concerning the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) Marine Park. Drawing on a thematic analysis and open coding of data from 34 semistructured interviews, we investigated the perspectives of managers from three agencies charged with protecting the GBR. We observed that a plurality of place meanings converged on five themes: (i) stewardship of the environment, (ii) utilization and access to natural resources, (iii) individualized experience, (iv) intergenerational connections, and (v) spirituality in place. Results revealed that these themes were complemented by formal and informal policy instruments that comprised our governance framework. Informal policy instruments played a particularly important role in the co-creation of knowledge, facilitated negotiations between managers and their constituencies, and increased public involvement in decision making.
14 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, tournament anglers were surveyed at game fishing competitions throughout New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia between February 2012 and May 2013 to investigate their general beliefs around sharks and their behaviours when targeting pelagic sharks.
12 citations
TL;DR: This article used fuzzy cognitive mapping to collect detailed, graphic information about recreational fishers' mental models as a way to improve the way scientific information is communicated to them, and identified driving variables and constraints to fisher's interest in taking up scientific information.
Abstract: Fisheries management benefits from improving the communication of scientific information to recreational fishers through improved compliance and greater contributions during consultation and engagement. This study uses fuzzy cognitive mapping to collect detailed, graphic information about recreational fishers' mental models as a way to improve the way scientific information is communicated to them. Fishers were given three examples of scientific information to understand the affective, cognitive and conative reactions to different types of fisheries-related information that they often encounter, and mental models were derived based on topics they found most and least interesting. This study identifies driving variables and constraints to fishers' interest in taking up scientific information. The results suggest a message's clarity, perceived regular usefulness, good and bad emotion and investments in money and time influence fishers' interest in taking up scientific information. Fishers' initial levels of interest in a topic also significantly affect the complexity of thought processes leading to further interest in informal learning and the relative roles of the driving variables and constraints.
6 citations