Fisheries co-management—an institutional innovation? Lessons from South East Asia and Southern Africa

• Main Authors: Nielsen, Jesper Raakjaer, Degnbol, Poul, Viswanathan, K. Kuperan, Ahmed, Mahfuzuddin, Hara, Mafaniso, Raja Abdullah, Nik Mustapha
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2004
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40146/1/Fisheries%20co-management.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40146/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X03000836
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

During the last decade the co-management concept has gained increasing acceptance as a potential way forward to improve fisheries management performance. It has, however, at the same time become increasingly evident that the co-management concept is not clearly defined and means very different things to different people. In this article, we attempt to document experience available from a recent study on fisheries co-management that has researched case studies of various implementations of co-management arrangements in coastal and freshwater fisheries in South East Asia and Southern Africa, and to present a more comprehensive understanding of co-management and to summarise the experiences with both the positive outcomes and the problems in actual implementation.