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𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹:
Society & Natural Resources

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Taylor & Francis Group

𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘂𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲:
31 January 2027

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲

Research on illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing has traditionally focused on deterrence and enforcement, often viewing fishers primarily as offenders. However, emerging scholarship highlights that non-compliance in fisheries is also shaped by poverty, livelihood vulnerabilities, regulatory shortcomings, and questions of legitimacy.

This Special Issue seeks to reframe non-compliance in capture fisheries as a moral, cultural, and cognitive phenomenon rather than solely a legal or enforcement issue. Drawing on legal pluralism and related perspectives, it explores how practices considered illegal under state law may still be viewed as legitimate within local, customary, or community-based systems.

The Special Issue aims to generate comparative and interdisciplinary insights into how compliance and non-compliance are understood, justified, and enacted across diverse fisheries contexts worldwide.

𝗧𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁

Submissions may address, but are not limited to:

• Moral reasoning and legitimacy in fisheries compliance and non-compliance
• Fishers’ perceptions, justifications, and negotiations of regulatory practices
• Interactions between state law, community norms, and customary systems
• Social, economic, and political experiences of IUU fishing
• Beyond binary legal–illegal perspectives toward continuums of legitimacy
• Comparative analyses of large-scale, small-scale, subsistence, gleaning, and recreational fisheries
• Interdisciplinary approaches from anthropology, sociology, political ecology, economics, geography, criminology, and related disciplines
• Marine, coastal, estuarine, freshwater, and inland fisheries contexts

𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗨𝗘 𝗪𝗘𝗟𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗦

• Comparative and cross-national studies
• Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research
• Theoretical and empirical contributions
• Case studies from diverse geographic and ecological settings

𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀

• Manuscripts must be submitted through the Society & Natural Resources online submission system.
• Authors should select the Special Issue option: “The Morality of Non-Compliance in Capture Fisheries” during submission.
• There is no requirement to submit an abstract prior to manuscript submission.
• Submissions are welcome from both invited and non-invited authors.
• Manuscripts will undergo the journal’s standard double-blind peer-review process.
• Papers will be considered on a rolling basis and sent for peer review upon receipt if deemed suitable.

𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀

• Dražen Cepić, Institute for Social Research in Zagreb, Croatia
Email: drazen@idi.hr

• Milena Arias Schreiber, World Maritime University, Sweden
Email: mas@wmu.se

• Hugo M. Ballesteros, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Email: victorhugo.martinez@usc.es

• Liz Drury O’Neill, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden
Email: elizabeth.druryoneill@su.se

• Jaime Ramón Bruquetas, University of La Laguna, Spain
Email: jramonbr@ull.edu.es

• Gonzalo Rodríguez Rodríguez, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Email: gonzalo.rodriguez@usc.es

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗦𝗲𝘁𝘂 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 — 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 & 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

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