Social learning in fish producers' organizations: how fishers perceive their membership experience and what they learn from it

摘要: Fish producers' organizations (POs) bring together fishers or fish farmers on a voluntary basis so as to ensure the best market conditions for their fish. How perceive and understand membership experience is crucial capacity learn from each other adapt when interacting with environment. These issues are explored by using case of Propeixe, Portuguese PO purse seine fishers. Fishers ‘perceptions’ experiences discussed an analytical framework based social learning literature. POs appear stimulate amongst through changes in practices, economic incentives, rules trust leadership. Moreover, add simple structure properties network coordination: interdependency co-operation. However, fail change modes interaction communication Within there informal subnetworks, differing terms interests influences, disagreeing problems (e.g. resource status) how deal them. By enhancing members' capacity, may increase cooperate actors sector. Leadership strategy, encourage day-to-day dialog power relations, essential this respect.