A lot of efforts through different projects have been made to establish comanagement
mechanisms to manage small scale fishery in Sri Lanka.
Nevertheless, many of such attempts have by now proved to be futile
endeavors. More often than not, such attempts to establish co-management
mechanisms in small scale fishery in...
The study is a modest attempt of assessing community-based management
of inland fisheries resources in Bangladesh to establishing access right to
the poor fishing communities. Co-management initiatives undertaken by
different institutes have established effective networking among
Community Based Organizations (CBOs). The initiatives also provided
fisheries management knowledge and created access...
This paper is based on a review and assessment of lessons from three
projects on fisheries co-management in Bangladesh: i) Community-based
fisheries management (CBFM), ii) Management of aquatic ecosystems
through community husbandry (MACH), and iii) Fourth Fisheries Project
(FFP). These co-management initiatives established 191 Community Based
Organizations (CBOs) in 179...
Ragay Gulf is one of the 19 critical waters of the Philippines where a socioeconomic assessment was conducted in the Fisheries Resources Management Program of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
with support from the Asian Development Bank and Japan Bank for International Cooperation. Public participation and involvement was...
Social networks and social capital can facilitate or constrain collaborative arrangements which can enhance resource governance and adaptability in complex social-ecological systems such as fisheries. Yet, the impact of ethnic diversity among resource users on social network capital in the context of resource governance has not been previously examined. To...