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Two to tango: The role of government in fisheries co-management

Robert S. Pomeroy, +1 more
- 01 Sep 1997 - 
- Vol. 21, Iss: 5, pp 465-480
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In this article, the authors discuss the role of government, primarily national government, in fisheries co-management and investigate the critical role of decentralization in a strategy of comanagement using a number of international cases.
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This article is published in Marine Policy.The article was published on 1997-09-01. It has received 673 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Fisheries law & Fisheries co-management.

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Institutional legitimacy and co-management of a marine protected area: implementation lessons from the case of Xcalak Reefs National Park, Mexico.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the relationship between a conservation intervention and the quest for local institutional legitimacy and conservation success through co-management, and employ the case of Xcalak Reefs National Park (PNAX) to illuminate the interaction between contextual and procedural elements of comanagement implementation, how these variables affect the production of legitimacy in the minds of local resource users.
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Managing nature, producing cultures: Inuit participation, science and policy in wildlife governance in the Nunavut Territory, Canada

TL;DR: In this article, a critical analysis is proposed of the relationships between Inuit participation, science and policy in wildlife governance in the Nunavut Territory, Canada, and the analysis situates the emergence of a participatory regime for the governance of wildlife and examines the relations between the ways in which wildlife governance arrangements are currently represented in policy and how they are played out in practice across the territory.
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Decentralization Policy: An Opportunity for Strengthening Fisheries Management System?

TL;DR: In this article, a case study in Lombok Barat reveals some positive impacts of decentralization policy: state recognition to community-based fisheries management systems, devolution of fisheries management to the local people, and strengthening of CBFM systems.
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New Zealand seafood firm competitiveness in export markets: The role of the quota management system and aquaculture legislation

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of a research project that involved four medium to large-sized, highly vertically integrated New Zealand seafood firms, identifying their sources of competitiveness in export markets and the process the firms used to develop sources of competitive, while adapting to rapid and radical changes to the political and business environment and transformation of the fisheries management system.
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Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

TL;DR: In this paper, an institutional approach to the study of self-organization and self-governance in CPR situations is presented, along with a framework for analysis of selforganizing and selfgoverning CPRs.
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The tragedy of the commons: twenty-two years later.

TL;DR: Evidence accumulated over the last twenty-two years indicates that private, state, andcommunal property are all potentially viable resource management options.
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