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...
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 community based for the fisheries resources management project (CO-FISH-Project) in Bengkalis is a coastal development project to improve the living standard of coastal community in this region. Over all project activities including resources and ecology assessments, social economy assessment, establishment of suitable fisheries resources management, community based fisheries resources...
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 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...
The status of fisheries resources on coastal and offshore areas is getting worse in Taiwan. Thus, to establish a fishery resources management system has become the main task among stakeholders. In this study, we would like to examine the feasibility of imposing the community-based co-management system and setting closed fishing...
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...
In transboundary river basins, political borders oftentimes trace shared rivers across a basin. A border between territories can be seen as a space that is separated; however, it is actually one with the potential to unite populations and environments. A river basin is generally defined by its topography and hydrology....