Stakeholder participation in ecosystem-based approaches to fisheries management: A synthesis from European research projects

Augustin Berghöfer, Heidi Wittmer and Felix Rauschmayer

Marine Policy, 2008, vol. 32, issue 2, 243-253

Abstract: In this synthesis article, we claim that institutional innovation is required for ecosystem-based approaches to fisheries management (EBAFM), and that such innovation can best be achieved by engaging in a delicate process of societal decision making. Current instances of participation in fisheries shed light on the societal processes required for such institutional innovation. We apply the IBEFish analytical frame to examine findings from recent European research on participation in fisheries management at different jurisdictional levels. We distil several issues of major concern for institutional innovation towards EBAFM. These concern information management, legitimacy, social dynamics and costs, as well as aspects of cross-scale and cross-sector integration of fisheries governance.

Keywords: Fisheries; co-management; Participation; European; fisheries; Institutional; change; Ecosystem-based; approaches; to; fisheries; management; Fisheries; research; Information; management; Legitimacy; Social; dynamics; Costs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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