Comment/Editorial: A Core issue

ICSF, International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (2000) Comment/Editorial: A Core issue. Samudra Report (25). p. 1. ISSN 0973 1121

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Abstract

In the context of the crisis gripping the world’s fisheries, everyone seems to agree that only sound and judicious management of resources will salvage most fisheries. Is co-management one of the practicable tools in this mission? In “Only Partnerships Work” (page 10 of this issue), Patrick McConney from Barbados, a Small Island Developing State in the Caribbean, observes, “Fisheries authorities must recognize that they need to form partnerships with the people in the fishing industry, whether the process is called co-management, community-based management or something else.” Yet, in the context of Canada, a developed nation, where co-management processes have been used to manage marine fisheries since 1995, Marc Allain tells us that many leaders of fishermen see co-management as “yet another example of government talking about grass-roots participation and consultation, but doing the opposite” (‘The Way Forward’, page 14). He further points out the most serious criticism levelled against the co-management approach in Canada, that it is a “smokescreen to advance the government’s agenda to privatize fish resources and force everyone on to individual transferable quotas”.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.SAM0319
Keywords:	Samudra Report, ICSF, Resources Management, Co-management, Fishworkers Organisation, Canada, Canadian Council of Professional Fish Harvesters,
Subjects:	Right to Resources
Depositing User:	Varsha V icsf
Date Deposited:	21 Sep 2021 07:33
Last Modified:	30 Mar 2022 13:36
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/959

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