Regulatory Compliance in Lake Victoria Fisheries
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Environment and Development Economics
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This paper analyzes the causes for regulatory compliance, using traditional
deterrence variables and potential moral and social variables. We use self-reported data
from 459 Tanzanian artisanal fishers in Lake Victoria. The results indicate that the decision
to be either a non-violator or a violator, as well as the violation rate – if the latter –
are influenced by changes in deterrence variables like the probability of detection and
punishment and also by legitimacy and social variables. We also identify a small group
of fishers who react neither to normative aspects nor to traditional deterrence variables
but persistently violate the regulation.
Keywords
Compliance, Lake Victoria, legitimacy, normative, deterrence, fisheries