Managing fisheries and corruption in the Pacific Islands region

Hanich, Quentin A; Tsamenyi, Martin

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2008.08.006

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“…Other developing countries have successfully addressed issues of corruption in the fisheries sector by convening diverse committees, with built in accountability mechanisms, when making decisions about licensing, etc. and by disclosing information regarding public process and licensing to the general public [72]. Finally, while multi-level comanagement emphasizes the devolution of governance tasks to the lowest level of organization affected by decisions, not all tasks are appropriate to devolve, especially in the case of multi-sectoral fisheries (i.e.…”

Section: Pathway Towards Multi-level Co-managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Re-defining co-management to facilitate small-scale fisheries reform: An illustration from northwest Mexico

Finkbeiner

Basurto

2015

Marine Policy

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a b s t r a c tSmall-scale fisheries face a suite of multi-level challenges, making the reliance on centralized governance approaches and self-governance alone unlikely to lead to long enduring solutions. Although co-management has been long proposed as a promising institutional arrangement, co-management can take many forms; thus, not any type of co-management will be effective for the suite of challenges facing small-scale fisheries today. This paper argues for moving beyond traditional conceptualizations of comanagement, to 'multi-level co-management,' in order to explicitly emphasize the principles of power devolution based on subsidiarity, cooperative partnerships, democratic participatory involvement, polycentricity, and governance networks. The experience of Northwest Mexico is used to illustrate the potential, opportunities, and barriers in achieving multi-level co-management in an effort to contribute to the constructive dialogue developing around the world, and in the region, on small-scale fisheries governance reform.

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Section: Pathway Towards Multi-level Co-managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Re-defining co-management to facilitate small-scale fisheries reform: An illustration from northwest Mexico

Finkbeiner

Basurto

2015

Marine Policy

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“…These phenomena are not temporary, incidental or limited to speci fi c parts of the world, as was thought for a long time (Williams 2000 ) . Of course they also occur in fi sheries (Hauck 2008 ;Hanich and Tsamenyi 2009 ) .…”

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Theorizing Governability – The Interactive Governance Perspective

Kooiman

Bavinck

2013

MARE Publication Series

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This chapter presents the conceptual foundations of governability and interactive governance upon which it is based. Interactive governance is a theoretical perspective that emphasizes the governing roles of state, market and civil society. Interactions between these realms are argued to be an important factor in the success or failure of whatever governance takes place. Governability refers to the quality of governance in a societal fi eld, such as fi sheries. Diversity, complexity, dynamics and scale are argued to be major variables in fl uencing the governability of societal systems and their three components: a system-to-be-governed, a governing system and a system of governing interactions mediating between the two.

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“…2010). Within this nexus, political economists have explored how states and fishing interests interact around marine resource property relations and allocation politics, including by detailing the ways that rights granted to one party impact other parties' resource access (Mansfield 2004; Hanich and Tsamenyi 2009; Campling et al. 2012; De Alessi 2012; Foley 2012).…”

Section: Leveraging Fisheries Assets For Domestic Developmentmentioning

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Fishing for Development? Tuna Resource Access and Industrial Change in Papua New Guinea

Havice

Reed

2012

Journal of Agrarian Change

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Papua New Guinea (PNG) is an island state with sovereign rights over valuable tuna resources. Historically, PNG captured value from tuna only by charging licensing fees to foreign fishing fleets, which relegated PNG as a source of raw material for the global tuna industry. To capture more value from tuna – including much‐needed jobs and infrastructure – the PNG government now offers firms that invest in domestic tuna processing plants strategic, long‐term fishing licences. This strategy of ‘obligating embeddedness’ enables PNG to reorder the international division of labour in the canned tuna sector, but socio‐economic outcomes are shaped by competition within the global tuna industry, the core business strategies of foreign firms and domestic conditions in PNG. Ultimately, a state's right to control the terms of access to tuna is not synonymous with its ability to shape the local‐level consequences that emerge as firms comply. These findings reveal the peculiar nature of state sovereignty over pelagic marine resources and the complications of exploiting them to achieve domestic economic and social objectives.

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Managing fisheries and corruption in the Pacific Islands region

Cited by 48 publications

References 3 publications

Re-defining co-management to facilitate small-scale fisheries reform: An illustration from northwest Mexico

Re-defining co-management to facilitate small-scale fisheries reform: An illustration from northwest Mexico

Theorizing Governability – The Interactive Governance Perspective

Fishing for Development? Tuna Resource Access and Industrial Change in Papua New Guinea

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