Co-management of sea turtle fisheries: Biogeography versus geopolitics
Co-management between local communities and government agencies is promoted as a strategy to improve fisheries management. This paper considers the potential for co-management of sea turtle fisheries within four UK Overseas Territories (OTs) in the Caribbean, and for co-ordinated management among those territories. We focus on fisher incentives for engaging in co-management and on the potential to scale up co-management to a regional level. This paper presents data from Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, and Turks and Caicos Islands, where 110 turtle fishers participated in a socio-economic survey undertaken as part of the 'Turtles in the UK Overseas Territories in the Caribbean' project. Based on three established criteria for co-management (perceived crisis in stock, willingness to participate and community cohesion), results suggest that fisher support for co-management exists within each OT, but the extent of support for and views of specific management interventions varies among OTs. The implications of results for co-management in each territory, and for establishing co-ordinated management regimes in the region, are discussed in the context of current debates about the nature of resources and scalar (mis)matches between resource and management regimes.
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2009
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Authors: | Campbell, Lisa M. ; Silver, Jennifer J. ; Gray, Noella J. ; Ranger, Sue ; Broderick, Annette ; Fisher, Tatum ; Godfrey, Matthew H. ; Gore, Shannon ; Jeffers, John ; Martin, Corrine ; McGowan, Andrew ; Richardson, Peter ; Sasso, Carlos ; Slade, Lorna ; Godley, Brendan |
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Marine Policy. - Elsevier, ISSN 0308-597X. - Vol. 33.2009, 1, p. 137-145
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Elsevier |
Subject: | Co-management Sea turtles Caribbean Fisheries |
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