The Proposed Formal Grounded Theory of Fishmining Lack of Trust and Inadequate Multistakeholder Governance Drive Unsustainability of Fisheries Resources
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This study explores ways Tanzanian and European fisheries actors solve and resolve their main concern given the persistently ongoing unsustainability occurrences in the management and exploitation of fisheries resources. It used classic grounded theory (CGT) methodology to collect and analyse the data. Lack of trust, credibility, and inadequacies in public governance emerged as the main concerns that enabled local and foreign rogue actors to unsustainably overexploit fisheries resources. A core category and basic social process (BSP) called fishmining, emerged as fishmining BSP CGT, and met the requirements of a formal GT (FGT) because its general implications of unsustainability transcended the fisheries resources context into other resource-based spheres: management, geography/jurisdiction, legal/regulatory regimes, and many other sustainable development aspects of the United Nations. Also, this fishmining BSP FGT appeared to fit and work while keeping relevant and modifiable to new unsustainability situations given changes over time, people, and places.
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