Fisheries co-management--an institutional innovation? Lessons from South East Asia and Southern Africa

Jesper Raakjær Nielsen, Poul Degnbol, K.Kuperan Viswanathan, Mahfuzuddin Ahmed, Mafaniso Hara and Nik Mustapha Raja Abdullah

Marine Policy, 2004, vol. 28, issue 2, 151-160

Abstract: During the last decade the co-management concept has gained increasing acceptance as a potential way forward to improve fisheries management performance. It has, however, at the same time become increasingly evident that the co-management concept is not clearly defined and means very different things to different people. In this article, we attempt to document experience available from a recent study on fisheries co-management that has researched case studies of various implementations of co-management arrangements in coastal and freshwater fisheries in South East Asia and Southern Africa, and to present a more comprehensive understanding of co-management and to summarise the experiences with both the positive outcomes and the problems in actual implementation.

Keywords: Fisheries; management; Co-management; Governance; Conflict; resolution; South; East; Asia; and; Southern; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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