Cooperatives in fisheries management: The case of St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Jentoft, Svein; Sandersen, Håkan T.

doi:10.1080/08941929609380973

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“…The capacity for FAs to undertake responsibility for their management functions has been a recurrent issue in SSF literature (e.g., Jentoft and Sandersen 1996 apparent limitations that they face. Donor-led establishment of FAs and comanagement was often cited by FA leaders as valuable because NGO projects provided short-term access to funding and training.…”

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Building blocks for social-ecological transformations: identifying and building on governance successes for small-scale fisheries

Andrachuk¹,

Armitage²,

Hoang³

et al. 2018

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ABSTRACT. We introduce building blocks as an approach to assess deliberative transformation pathways in linked systems of people and nature (i.e., small-scale fishery systems). In doing so, we address a knowledge gap about the maintenance and replication of governance processes that support transformative change, with a particular focus on small-scale fisheries that are facing ecological decline. Recent introduction of comanaged territorial use rights for small-scale fishers in the Cau Hai Lagoon, Vietnam has shown promise for alleviating ecological impacts from overfishing and reduced conflicts among fishers. We use this setting to inductively identify building blocks in two case study sites, and highlight the lessons for replicating successes in similar small-scale coastal fisheries. The investigation revealed five building blocks that were instrumental to success in the two case study communities: fisher approval of ecological conservation, cooperation among fishers, support from local government, secure funding, and effective leadership. These findings demonstrate site-level specificity of what governance attributes are already contributing to more durable and transformative change, and how these attributes can be augmented in other communities in the Cau Hai Lagoon. Key lessons for governance of transformations are that (1) building blocks do not need to be identical from case to case, and (2) further consideration needs to be given to how building blocks may nest or fit together. Our research contributes to a relatively new body of literature on deliberative transformations and offers guidance on a way to support and enhance transformations of small-scale fisheries.

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confidence: 99%