Understanding the Social Equity Challenges of Fishery Improvement Projects

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Author:

CEA Consulting

Publication Year:

2025

Citation:

CEA Consulting. 2025. "Understanding the Social Equity Challenges of Fishery Improvement Projects: A high-level scan of current challenges within Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs)."

Description:

In June of 2024, CEA Consulting partnered with WWF to conduct research to better understand current equity challenges affecting fisheries participating in Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs). Using a mixed-methods approach, CEA conducted interviews with 17 informants and deployed a survey to members of the FIP implementing community to gather a breadth of perspectives on the contextual, procedural, management, recognitional, and distributional equity conditions of the fisheries included in this study. Informants were also invited to share recommendations for how buyers could help address the identified challenges. This report summarizes the study’s findings.

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