The Role of Local Management and Knowledge Systems in Small-Scale Fisheries : a Review of Major Issues and Research Needs in Asian Coastal Zones

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Impoverishment if not outright collapse of marine fisheries is now a worldwide phenomenon. The most highly publicized problems of contemporary fisheries management have occurred in the fisheries of Western industrialized countries. Yet the same biological and economic models responsible for those problems are still generally recommended for fisheries development and management in Third World contexts. Ironically, in many such societies there already exist or existed sophisticated traditional, community-based fisheries management systems, based on often encyclopaedic systems of local knowledge, and well adapted for local use. Such traditional fisheries management systems have been documented throughout the world. They are especially rich in the Asia-Pacific Region, where they are generally highly regulated, common property regimes. In this article I summarize the main functions, characteristics and design principles of such systems and their local knowledge base, and describe their geographical distribution in Asia. In terms of the purpose of this seminar-workshop I then elaborate areas and topics of research that could form a basis for collaborative undertakings.
関西学院大学の論文
1999-08-31