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....
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...
Small-scale fishing communities in South Africa were recognised for the first time in 1998, when the Marine Living Resources Act, aimed at redressing apartheid era inequalities, was enacted. Government's primary intervention has been to issue annual individual permits, wherein Government defined the technical parameters for the fishers to operate as...
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...