P., McConney (2003) Grenada case study: The Lobster fishery at Sauteurs. Caribbean Conservation Association, Barbados.
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This document is a case study of the lobster fishery at Sauteurs in Grenada. It was selected as an example of an attempt to co-manage a valuable inshore fishery with fairly well defined resource and community boundaries, but at a location remote from the fisheries authority. The fisheries regulations of Grenada prohibit the use of nets for harvesting lobsters, and the use of trammel nets for any species. Prior to these regulations the fishermen of Sauteurs on the mainland, and Isle de Ronde offshore, used trammel nets for harvesting lobster. As the regulations were introduced the fishermen received reprieves from government to allow them time to switch to alternative gear on their own. However, trammel nets remained the primary gear for lobster harvest, with no evidence of alternatives being introduced by the fishers themselves. In 2001, the government of Grenada decided to no longer tolerate illegal fishing with trammel nets, but wanted a collaborative phase-out to include the Fisheries Division introducing alternative and acceptable fishing gear. A co-management pilot project was initiated for this purpose. Although the co-management pilot project was reasonably well designed, its implementation period was unrealistically short for the objectives that were set. In particular, there was not enough time allowed for the acquisition of test fishing gear and the collaborative activities of gear trials that should have assisted in strengthening the relationships between the fishers and fisheries authority, perhaps whether they were successful or not. Because of the several problems experienced in implementing the project the government was forced to take a decision on whether to allow the illegal activities to continue or to announce its enforcement of regulations that had been defied for some time. Although the fishers had enough time over the years to devise their own solutions to the prohibition of their preferred fishing gear, they tool no action. They considered government's inability to provide them with alternatives in a short space of time to be a breach of the co-management agreement. In many ways their objections were mainly to test the political and managerial strength of decision-makers. They accepted, and have apparently respected, the firm decision to enforce the net ban.
| Item Type: | Documents |
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| Class Number: | 500.GRE006 |
| Keywords: | Grenada, Lobster, Fisheries Management, Caribbean, Small-scale FIsheries, Fishing Methods, Fishing Boats, Catch, Discards, Bycatch, Socio-economic Aspects, Poverty, NGO, Community Based Management, ICAM, Natural Disasters, Co-management, Decision Making, Property Rights, Trammel Nets, Small-scale Fisheries, Fish Harvesting |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Chitti Babu ICSF |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Nov 2022 05:47 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Nov 2022 05:47 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/14274 |
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