Abstract

In fisheries management—as in environmental governance more generally—regulatory arrangements that are thought to be helpful in some contexts frequently become panaceas or, in other words, simple formulaic policy prescriptions believed to solve a given problem in a wide range of contexts, regardless of their actual consequences. When this happens, management is likely to fail, and negative side effects are common. We focus on the case of individual transferable quotas to explore the panacea mindset, a set of factors that promote the spread and persistence of panaceas. These include conceptual narratives that make easy answers like panaceas seem plausible, power disconnects that create vested interests in panaceas, and heuristics and biases that prevent people from accurately assessing panaceas. Analysts have suggested many approaches to avoiding panaceas, but most fail to conquer the underlying panacea mindset. Here, we suggest the codevelopment of an institutional diagnostics toolkit to distill the vast amount of information on fisheries governance into an easily accessible, open, on-line database of checklists, case studies, and related resources. Toolkits like this could be used in many governance settings to challenge users’ understandings of a policy’s impacts and help them develop solutions better tailored to their particular context. They would not replace the more comprehensive approaches found in the literature but would rather be an intermediate step away from the problem of panaceas.

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Acknowledgments

This article reflects discussion at a workshop hosted by the Institute of Arctic Studies, Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College, and cosponsored by the Stefansson Arctic Institute in Akureyri, Iceland. The Evelyn Stefansson Nef Endowment provided funding for the workshop.

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  1. governance
  2. fisheries
  3. panacea mindset
  4. individual transferable quotas
  5. institutional diagnostics

Acknowledgments

This article reflects discussion at a workshop hosted by the Institute of Arctic Studies, Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College, and cosponsored by the Stefansson Arctic Institute in Akureyri, Iceland. The Evelyn Stefansson Nef Endowment provided funding for the workshop.

Notes

This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.

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Oran R. Young
Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5131;
D. G. Webster1 [email protected]
Environmental Studies Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755-3577;
Michael E. Cox
Environmental Studies Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755-3577;
Jesper Raakjær
Innovative Fisheries Management, Aalborg University, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark;
Lau Øfjord Blaxekjær
Nordic Institute for Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark;
Centre for Innovation, University of the Faroe Islands, Tórshavn 100, Faroe Islands;
Níels Einarsson
Stefansson Arctic Institute, 600 Akureyri, Iceland;
Ross A. Virginia
Environmental Studies Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755-3577;
James Acheson
Department of Anthropology, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5773;
Daniel Bromley
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706;
Emma Cardwell
School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom;
Courtney Carothers
College of Fisheries & Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Anchorage, AK 99501;
Einar Eythórsson
High North Department, Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research, 9296 Tromsø, Norway;
Richard B. Howarth
Environmental Studies Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755-3577;
Svein Jentoft
Norwegian College of Fishery Science, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, 9019 Tromsø, Norway;
Bonnie J. McCay
Human Ecology, School of Environmental & Biological Sciences, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8520;
Fiona McCormack
Anthropology, University of Waikato, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand;
Gail Osherenko
Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6150;
Evelyn Pinkerton
Resource & Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada;
Rob van Ginkel
Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, 1001 NA Amsterdam;
James A. Wilson
Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5741;
Louie Rivers III
Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695;
Robyn S. Wilson
Risk Analysis and Decision Science, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210

Notes

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To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: [email protected].
Author contributions: O.R.Y., D.G.W., M.E.C., and R.A.V. designed research; O.R.Y. and D.G.W. analyzed data; O.R.Y. and M.E.C. provided text and expertise on institutional diagnostics and the diagnostic checklist; J.R. provided text for the conceptual narratives and institutional diagnostics sections; L.Ø.B. provided text and expertise for section on conceptual narratives; N.E., E.C., C.C., E.E., S.J., F.M., G.O., E.P., R.v.G., and J.A.W. provided input on ITQ case studies; J.A., D.B., E.E. and R.B.H. provided input on ITQ theory and case studies; L.R. and R.S.W. provided expertise to refine the heuristics and biases section of the manuscript; D.G.W. wrote the paper; and O.R.Y. edited the final version of the paper with input from M.E.C., J.R., L.Ø.B., N.E., J.A., D.B., E.C., C.C., E.E., R.B.H., S.J., B.J.M., F.M., G.O., E.P., R.v.G., J.A.W., L.R., and R.S.W.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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