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Facilitating Co-Managed Fisheries In The Caribbean Region: Good Practices And Guidance From The Carifico Experience
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2018
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Description:Fisheries co-management is broadly defined as a flexible and collaborative process in which government and resource users (principally fishers) share the responsibility and authority for decision-​making. Today, co-management is recognized as an effective approach for managing and sustaining small-scale fisheries with arrangements that may fall anywhere on a continuum from near-total government control to near-total stakeholder control. CARIFICO (CARIbbean FIsheries Co-Management) aimed to facilitate the development of co-management arrangements by piloting them in fisheries where individual and collective action by fishers can be expected to result in relatively rapid benefits. To this end, development and management of the offshore (peagic) fishery through the introduction or expanded use of fish aggregation devices (FADs) was identified as a key priority, and that is the effort on which this document focuses. In the case of the offshore fishery, CARIFICO introduced a comprehensive set of activities to government and fisher stakeholders in each of the six participating countries to support the use and management of government-​sponsored (public) FADs as an alternate to the setting of individual (private) FADs. This document describes the planning, implementation, and evaluation of those activities (major steps) and their respective actions (supporting steps). Drawing from this experience and from the scientific literature, it also offers guidance from similar future efforts and recommends good practices for implementing such activities at national (individual participating country), sub-regional (all participating countries), and regional (all eastern Caribbean countries).
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Sea Grant Document Number:FLSGP-T-18-001
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