WHAT IS NEW
Dr. Gabriela Sabau
I-5 Co-investigator
School of Science and the Environment, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Grenfell campus
Dr. Ratana Chuenpagdee
Module I Co-lead
Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's campus
Dr. Norm Catto
Co-investigator
Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's campus
Dr. Robert Briggs
Co-investigator
C-CORE, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's campus
Dr. Thomas Puestow
Co-investigator
C-CORE, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's campus
Dr. Roger White
Co-investigator
Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's campus
Dr. William Cheung
Canadian collaborator
NF-UBC Nereus Program, University of British Columbia
Dr. Prateep Nayak
Canadian collaborator
School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo
Jack Daly
Master's student
Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's campus
Maria Yulmetova
Master's student
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's campus
Siva Prasad
Post-doctoral fellow
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's campus
ACCESS TO RESOURCES & MARKETS
This research sub-module investigates institutional changes, especially in harvest rules, access to resources, markets and trade policies, in Canadian and international contexts.
This research sub-module investigates institutional changes, especially in harvest rules, access to resources, markets and trade policies, in Canadian and international contexts. While documenting the need for Newfoundland and Labrador's fisheries to comply with various sets of standards, regulations and principles, the sub-module also explores creative ways to achieve that compliance and, where appropriate, to change governance structures to better align with sustainable development principles.
'Access to Resources & Markets' is innovative in how it uses the concept of access, integrating a highly grounded/ecological approach (access to resources) with a highly integrated local to global approach (access to local and export markets). The sub-module also uses document analysis and key informant interviews to analyze the changes in fisheries policies, including the new Fisheries Act, looking at policies related to fleet separation, owner-operator and the Policy to Preserve the Independence of the Inshore Fleet in Canada’s Atlantic Fisheries, for instance.
While these policies aim to protect owner-operator fish harvesters from corporate control and to ensure that benefits from fish resources flow to independent fishers and coastal communities, they are being undermined by private agreements that result in concentration of fishing licenses by processing companies and other investors, similar to the effects of Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs). It is therefore expected that key informant interviews will reveal information and dynamics unavailable in existing documents.

Gabriela Sabau
Co-investigator
School of Science and the Environment, Memorial University, Grenfell campus

Charles Mather
Co-investigator
Department of Geography, Memorial University, St. John's campus

Mohammad Ruyel Miah
Master's student
Geography Department, Memorial University, St. John's campus