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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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Protected areas management: A comparison of perceived outcomes associated with different co-management types

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the extent to which actors' perceptions of co-management outcomes vary as a result of different comanagement types and the factors accounting for such variations.

Results of a decade of R & D efforts on culture-based fisheries in Sri Lanka

TL;DR: In this paper, a study of culture-based fishery development in small village reservoirs of Sri Lanka is presented, which is a communal activity involving agricultural farmers without prior experience in fi sheries.
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Effect of marine reserve establishment on non-cooperative fisheries management

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the effect of MPA establishment on competition strength between fishery institutions, fish population abundance resulting from the competition, and distribution of the gross fishery profit between institutions.
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Governing offshore fish aggregating devices in the Eastern Caribbean: Exploring trade-offs using a qualitative network model

TL;DR: A qualitative network model of the fishery is constructed based on semi-structured interviews with fishers and fisheries managers, established food web and economic models, and expert knowledge and suggests that community-based and top-down governance scenarios result in low levels of conflict, but provide limited incentives to develop and maintain moored FADs.
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Use of multiple criteria decision analysis for the development of adaptive fishery management strategies: The case of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the literature and analysis of the situation in the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve show that both fishery management approaches face serious difficulties: they deal inadequately with uncertainties about the causes of observed behaviour and the likely effects of different policies; they are too focused on readily measurable objectives; and they do not address the effects of the institutional context on management.
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