Co-management and "consciousness": Fishers' assimilation of management principles in Chile

Sarah Schumann

Marine Policy, 2007, vol. 31, issue 2, 101-111

Abstract: Chile's new Management Area system delegates management responsibility to organizations of artisanal shell-fishers on the condition that they team with professionally trained marine biologists. A survey of participating fishers in Chile's Fourth and Fifth regions examined four social benefits predicted to result from this type of co-management: (1) improved rapport between fishers and the state, (2) greater awareness among fishers of ecology and the benefits of management, (3) cooperation between fishers and scientists, and (4) unity between fishers. A discussion analyzes the principal benefit encountered--fishers' newfound "consciousness" of the value of management--within the context of co-management and territorial use rights.

Keywords: Chile; Co-management; Fisheries; management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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