Knowledge Co-production in Recreational Fisheries Science and Management

作者：Robert Arlinghaus, Marie Fujitani, Elias Ehrlich, Mônica T. Engel, Steven J. Cooke · 发表于：Fish & fisheries series/Fish and fisheries series (Print) · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1007/978-3-031-99739-6_18 · 被引用次数：3 · 研究领域：Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies、Conservation, Ecology, Wildlife Education、Coastal and Marine Management

Abstract Recreational fisheries need flexible approaches to knowledge production and decision support that involve interaction with stakeholders of civil society (e.g., recreational fishers, guides, conservationists), governments, and other organised and non-organised actors. Co-production of knowledge grounds research in relevant societal challenges and yields outputs that can have a transformative impact on practice, management, and governance. The term co-production is variously defined and used in the literature. We consider co-production as a process where research questions are informed by practical problems or co-developed, studies are implemented, and findings are interpreted jointly by scientists and other actors in problem-oriented ways that meet their collective interests and needs, while bridging different knowledge domains and ways of knowing. The concept shares overlap with co-design, co-creation, mode-2 science, transdisciplinary science, action research, citizen and community science, co-learning, co-assessment, and other related “co-terms,” but is not equivalent. In this chapter, we introduce and define co-production and place it in the context of research and management (and contrast it with co-management) related to recreational fisheries, laying out the aspirations, benefits, and challenges. A short narrative review of co-production work in recreational fisheries is provided. We write from a Western academic perspective on the key steps of co-production: i...