From community-based to co-management: Improvement or deterioration in fisheries governance in the Cherai Poyil fishery in the Cochin Estuary, Kerala, India?
✍ Scribed by Kaleekal Thomson; Tim Gray
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 334 KB
- Volume
- 33
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0308-597X
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✦ Synopsis
During the last 50 years, several different forms of fisheries governance have been tried and failed in the Cochin Estuary, Kerala, India. The latest shift has been from a community-based system to a comanagement system, and this paper evaluates the current system in the light of the theoretical debate over the respective merits of community-based management and co-management. The paper is based on documentary material and data from interviews carried out during fieldwork in 2004, from which it concludes that provided the co-management system incorporates community principles within it, it will be an effective form of fisheries governance.