Castilla, Juan C. and Fernandez, Miriam (1998) Small-scale benthic fisheries in Chile: On co-management and sustainable use of benthic invertebrates. Ecological Applications, Vol.8 (1). pp. 124-132. ISSN 1051-0761
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We discuss the issues of sustainable use and management in the Chilean inshore benthic small-scale (artisanal) fisheries. The fishery benefits from two features that make it possible to overcome some of the problems of conventional management. These are: (1) major advances have been made in understanding relevant ecological processes, and (2) this knowledge has been institutionalized in the 1991 Chilean Fishing and Aquaculture Law (FAL). FAL legalizes the use of community-owned shellfish grounds, so-called ‘‘Management and Exploitation Areas’’ (MEA); this practice is considered to confer quasiproperty rights to fishers’ unions. Management plans for these areas have to be approved by the government. This co-management approach solves one of the major problem in many fisheries: overexploitation. In addition, the study of the MEAs could provide useful information, if they are considered as ‘‘replicates,’’ in evaluating the effect of human perturbation and different management regimes.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | Chile, Co-management, Small-scale Fisheries, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Use |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
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| Date Deposited: | 11 May 2022 03:51 |
| Last Modified: | 11 May 2022 03:51 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/14297 |
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