Co-Operative Management of Local Fisheries: New Directions for Improved Management and Community Development - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774803266 ISBN 13: 9780774803267

Publisher: Univ of British Columbia Pr, 1989

Synopsis

This book is the first to consolidate information on the different routes by which these co-operative management arrangements have evolved. The authors include anthropologists, environmental planners, biologists, economists, fishery managers and tribal and governmental leaders. Their contributions examine the process of achieving co-management, the institutions created by co-management arrangements, and the benefits which result. Some of these benefits include more efficient and equitable management, less conflict between government and fishermen, and better co-operation between groups of fishermen. Co-operative Management of Local Fisheries looks at successes and failures of these arrangements for shared decision-making and offers guidelines for viable co-operative management.

About this title

About the Author

Evelyn Pinkerton is a research associate at the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia.

Review

The first genuinely scholarly attempt in anthropology to conceptualize/model co-management from the basis of empirical studies. It is important that the material get into the public domain for these management systems are blossoming in many resource fields. I suspect that joint management/planning/policy analysis will in the future draw heavily on this work. (S.M. Weaver, Department of Anthropology, University of Waterloo)

Widely scattered fisheries on stocks of common property have long posed problems for 'developers.' Centralized bureaucracies have not often been successful in technocratic efforts to resolve the problems. Full privatization of ownership is generally impossible for ecological and social reasons. 'Co-management' seeks to transcend such inappropriate efforts, in part by building on both old and new traditions. This book's case studies offer much-needed insight on participatory human management as a way towards satisfactory fishing management. (H.A. Regier, Professor of Zoology, Director, Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Toronto)

I was very much impressed by Co-operative Management of Local Fisheries. It is a timely contribution to an increasingly important subject. While co-operative management cannot solve all or even most of the troublesome problems fishery managers encounter, it offers many opportunities for real contributions. This volume offers an excellent mix of analytical and case study material, presented by experts with a wide range of training and experience.  Must reading for fishery managers. (James A. Crutchfield, Professor Emeritus, Institute for Marine Studies, University of Washington)

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ of British Columbia Pr
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0774803266
• ISBN 13: 9780774803267
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 313
• Editor: Pinkerton Evelyn