The Traditional Management of Artisanal Fisheries in North East Nigeria project (TMAF) has been funded by British Overseas Development Administration (ODA) to investigate the possibilities for designing a more effective management system for fisheries of the Sub-Saharan Savanna region using a community-based approach. The need for a new approach is...
It is now widely recognized that property rights based fisheries management regimes are well
suited for generating efficiency in fisheries. Apart from access licences, which are very low
quality property rights, individual quotas (IQs) and individual transferable quotas (ITQs) are the
most widely applicable and, indeed, the most commonly applied...
Community fishery rights are use rights (the right to take part in fishing) and/or management rights (the right to be involved in managing the fishery) implemented at a local, community level. While by no means a new invention, community rights are receiving renewed attention as a mechanism to improve the...
Van Chai are traditional fishing associations in Binh Dinh province, mainly distributing in coastal areas. In spite of experiencing many ups and downs, suffering great impacts of market economic and cultural integration, these villages still exist until now. However, many cultural features of the Van Chai have been gradually lost...
Over the last decade, advocates of the interdisciplinary concept of social capital have celebrated the fact that elements
of local social structures--embodied in social norms, networks and organizations--can significantly affect well-being in fishing
communities. But does this concept bring anything to the study and practice of fisheries management that is...
There is a high level of fishery resources exploitation in dense coastal waters region such as North Coast of Java. This is because of the increasing numbers of traditional fishing gears was concentrated on the territory. For the past ten years, the rate of resource utilization in Tegal waters and...
The long history of the van chai system of Vietnam began several centuries ago with their establishment mainly in the lower and middle reaches of rivers northern Vietnam and in coastal lagoons in Central Vietnam, whereas those in marine embayments, like Ha Long Bay, and in enclosed coastal areas, like...
As discussions of co-management and community-based management have become popular, recent works have paid growing attention to how fishers are involved in fisheries management. Comparing the fisheries management that has been developed in the hard clam fisheries of New Jersey, U.S.A., with those of Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, this paper examines...
This paper looks at some of the seemingly positive developments in fisheries governance over the last twenty-five years. It asks why fisheries management, if improving, is still failing in its basic objective of managing the people who catch fish so as to ensure that there are enough fish left out...
As the fishery product demand is rising now, the fishery activities are also increasing. However, some of them are done in irresponsible way, like using the fishing gears that able to destroy the environment. This paper is aimed to review sasi laut, as an indigenous knowledge conducted in some villages...
Japan is considered as one of the most successful marine fishery co-management or CBFM regimes. However, in 2001 the Japanese government was obliged to introduce new measures in order to recover several species under overexploitation. One example is the Resource Recovery Plans (RRP) that in all Japan accounts 51 fisheries....
Community-Based Fishery Management (CBFM) appears as a successful approach to avoid on tragedy of the commons in coastal fishery resources. Conditions necessary for that success are difficult to assess. Critical Enabling Conditions (CECs) are the necessary conditions to obtain institutional sustainability as the base of successful Common-Pool Resources (CPR) management...
This paper focuses on the consequences of managing small-scale fisheries without consideration of geographical differentiation in reproductive potential through a species range. Because fishing costs
increase with distance, the alternative port locations are predicted to have substantially different impacts on biological and economic performance variables when there are no spatial...
The state of the world at the beginning of 21 century is terribly bad from all points of views such as environment, food supply, resources, economy and security essential for human survival. Our civilization based on technological development and mass consumption has been using up all resources on land and...
Senegal is facing severe depletion of demersal fish stocks due to industrial fisheries and a fast and spontaneous development of artisanal fisheries. Fisheries overexploitation is caused by little awareness among artisanal fishers about the importance of fisheries management and conflicting and competing interests of local and migrant fishermen. The general...
This paper provides analysis on the current trends for decentralization of fisheries management in Indonesia. In Indonesia, decentralization has been processed by the establishment of Undang-Undang (UU) 22/1999 (local autonomy law), which is a product of the Reform movement to correct the centralism practiced in the New Order or Soeharto...
From 1991 to 2003, number of fishing boats increased from 43,940 to 83,122. The average power per boat increased from 18HP/boat to 49.3HP/boat. Fishing productivity seems to be gradually decreased from 0.89ton/HP to 0.35ton/HP. In this period, the yield of marine fisheries has been constantly increased with an annual average...
The UN MDG of 2000 include poverty eradication, protection of our common environment, and human
rights, democracy, and good governance. Fisheries have been expected to contribute to meet these goals,
especially after the UNCLOS III. As a result, many developing countries have over-invested in fisheries
with environmental degradation by industrial...
Participatory Fisheries Management (PFM) was introduced in fisheries management in Malawi in 1993 with Lake Malombe as a pilot site. After almost 10 years of implementation, the program has registered some positive achievements however some problems have surfaced that need to be addressed. Although the Fisheries Act was revised in...