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Behavior and Attitude toward Fishery Sustainability in Zhoushan, PRC: Perspectives of Fishermen

Jiehua Lu¹, Jianxin Li², Guangzhou Wang³, Yuzhu Li⁴

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¹Division of International Area Studies, Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea.
²Department of Sociology, Beijing University, Beijing, China.
³China Population Information Research Center, Beijing, China.
⁴Institute of Population Research, Beijing University, Beijing, China.
Email: lujiehua@pku.edu.cn

Based on the sampling survey of the fishermen in Zhoushan, one of the most important fishing grounds in China, this paper uses the method of CHAID to make a more investigation of the behavior and attitude of the fishermen regarding the fishery sustainability in order to outline the more rationalized fishery management strategies in China. Our empirical findings show that the benefits the fishing households receive from the fishing catch are not as good as those of ten years due to the depleting fishery resources, which were agreed by majority of fishermen in spite of the fact that there are some differentials in income groups and educational attainments. However, it is surprising to be found out that the higher percentage of fishermen are in the favor of no fishing period policy practiced in China, indicating that the fishermen have already got the initial awareness of fishery sustainability from the point of views of local economic development as well as their own increase in income level, which could be granted as a positive signal for future fishery policy.

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