The challenge for Governance (PDF 56 KB)
- Globalization and the exclusion of local fishing communities
- Market driven agreements and conventions
- Competition for the use of resources
- Who should take the responsibility for managing fisheries?
- Inadequacy of traditional fisheries management
- Inadequacy of 'modern' fisheries management
- A new approach is needed
- Problems facing fishing communities
Reforming governance institutions (PDF 64 KB)
- Fisheries co-management
- Definition of co-management
- Rationale for co-management
- Instrumental co-management
- Empowering fisheries co-management: an institutional innovation
Meeting the challenges in implementation (PDF 53 KB)
- Empowering communities to help define management objectives
- Integrating the scientific knowledge base for co-management decision-making
- Co-management and conflicts over fisheries resources
- Gear conflicts
- Excluding others
- Traditional authorities
- Managing scale issues
Conclusions and implications (PDF 43 KB)
- Scale
- Local and global
- Knowledge base
- Conflict resolution
- Empowerment
- Learning from experience
- Fisheries Co-management Research at the WorldFish Center
- List of Collaborating Institutions
Literature: a reading guide (PDF 45 KB)
References (PDF 45 KB)
Case study boxes (PDF 69 KB)
 Click here for full publication (PDF 163 KB)
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