The Moral and Ethical Baseline of Marine Socio-Ecological Values : the Case of Recreational and Artisanal Fishing in NW Mediterranean Coastal Waters (Catalonia, Spain)
Gómez Mestres, Sílvia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Antropologia Social i Cultural)

Date:	2022
Abstract:	Scant attention has been paid to values not expressed in monetary terms, due in part to the difficulty of assessing them. Moreover, the notion and understanding of "value" differs depending on the discipline and academic approaches. This ethnographic study focused on three marine spaces from the Catalonia region in Spain (Natural Park of Cap de Creus, Medes Islands protected area, and Natura 2000 Network area) addresses the competing values of maritime activities, small-scale fishing and recreational fishing, that make value judgements based on moral and ethical standards with which to legitimize activities and use of marine resources. The results highlight the co-existing market and non-market values involved in carrying out these activities, and the need to identify values as drivers of socioecological systems in order to evaluate sustainability. Through the lens of social theory mainly stemming from social anthropology, the study discusses on the moral and ethical issues at play.
Note:	Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UAB
Note:	Ajuts: Partial financial support was received from The Natural Park of Cap de Creus (assignment nº 019,903 and PDR 46/2015) for the years 2003 and 2015, the Catalan Government, Observatory of the Ethnological and Intangible heritage (OPEI) funding programme (reference nº CLT051/17/00020) in 2017, and Pharos4MPA Interreg Mediterranean, grant number 3MED17-3.2-M3-066, in 2018.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Published in:	Human ecology (Dordrecht), Vol. 50 Núm. 5 (october 2022) , p. 895-910, ISSN 1572-9915

DOI: 10.1007/s10745-022-00354-0

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