Figure 1.
Numbers correspond to site numbers in Table S2.
Table 1.
Factors highlighted as affecting fishery exit decisions in the literature, and corresponding variables used in this study.
Table 2.
Factor loadings of country-level material style of life scores.
Figure 2.
Thresholds for exiting the fishery in each studied country.
Sample size in each country give beneath the bar. Mada. = Madagascar, TZ = Tanz., Maur. = Mauritius, Seych = Seychelles.
Figure 3.
Classification-tree analysis evaluating stay and exit decisions in the studied fisheries in response to a hypothetical halving of catch value.
Based on the responses of 599 Western Indian Ocean fishers. Splits were based potentially on all variables described in Table 1. Sites are coloured by country (Blue – Seychelles, Green – Mauritius, Purple – Tanzania, Black – Kenya, Red – Madagascar). Numbers of fishers opting to stay (left) and exit (right) are shown at each branch. Fishers meeting the split conditions [e.g. material style of life (MSL)<−0.08] pass down to the next left-hand branch.
Figure 4.
Relationship between percentage of fishers at a site who would exit in response to a 50% catch decline and site-scale variables.
Lines indicate significant relationships (p<0.05).