From community-based to co-management: Improvement or deterioration in fisheries governance in the Cherai Poyil fishery in the Cochin Estuary, Kerala, India?

Kaleekal Thomson and Tim Gray

Marine Policy, 2009, vol. 33, issue 4, 537-543

Abstract: During the last 50 years, several different forms of fisheries governance have been tried and failed in the Cochin Estuary, Kerala, India. The latest shift has been from a community-based system to a co-management system, and this paper evaluates the current system in the light of the theoretical debate over the respective merits of community-based management and co-management. The paper is based on documentary material and data from interviews carried out during fieldwork in 2004, from which it concludes that provided the co-management system incorporates community principles within it, it will be an effective form of fisheries governance.

Keywords: Community-based; fisheries; management; Co-management; Cherai; Poyil; fishery; Kerala (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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