Towards adaptive co-management of small-scale fisheries in Uruguay and Brazil: lessons from using Ostrom’s design principles

Trimble, Micaela; Berkes, Fikret

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“…While it is clear that what the details of "co-management" means is still not fully shared, it is still notable that there is significant interest in attempting to take action at a local level to address the problems each community faces, and they all face in common. This approach to using co-management is not only seen to have potential by Colombian stakeholders, but also in other Latin American countries that face similar issues due to fisheries crises, such as Mexico (Salas et al 2015), Costa Rica (Solís et al 2015), Brazil (Futemma and Seixas 2008), Uruguay (Trimble and Berkes 2015), and Chile (Marin and Berkes 2010). Even in Colombia, there are examples of cases that have tried participatory management with varying degrees of success (Beardon 2008;Delgado et al 2010;Navia et al 2010).…”

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Managing small-scale fisheries in Colombia

2016

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The small-scale fishermen of Colombia face a wide range of problems and conflicts. While many problems are shared among individuals from both the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts (bi-coastal), others are unique to a subset of the communities, only occur on one of the coasts (uni-coastal) or in an individual locality. To come to grips with the major problems for these fisheries requires establishing a fisheries management strategy that can prioritize solutions at different levels: national, coastal, and local. This study describes the solutions identified by three sets of stakeholders: fishermen, local leaders and fisheries experts, to improve small-scale fisheries management in Colombia. Some cross-cutting solutions were recommended by all three sets of stakeholders. In other cases, only two of the three stakeholder groups agreed on certain proposals, and some isolated solutions were found in only one type of stakeholder. All three sets of stakeholders recommended that the government put in place fundamental regulatory framework for small-scale fisheries including support for alternative employment opportunities to reduce fishing pressure on the resources. Some but not all groups supported specific measures, such as gear restrictions, closed areas and closed seasons. There was also a clear need to distinguish those truly engaged in fishing as their livelihood from opportunists moving in and out of the sector. Specific recommendations are here presented to reform and restructure governance through co-management, and to develop a consensus among the main government and user stakeholders.

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Managing small-scale fisheries in Colombia

2016

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“…Cox et al (2010) also mentioned the limitations of Ostrom's principles in considering user community's internal power play. In general, Ostrom's design principles may be used as a guidelines to understand the sufficiency of incentives and maturity of social capital at community level; mostly through appraisal of internal institutional aspects, and without considering whole gamut of external factors (Yandle 2003(Yandle , 2008Cox et al 2010;Trimble and Berkes 2015). Thus, we need to consider any external force, like non-authorized users' interest in the FPA, which may hold potential opportunity or threat for the successful continuation of the FPA model.…”

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“…It has also been observed that the presence of the NGO created hopes among general villagers and involving parties in settlement of disputes and disagreements in more credible, smooth and less expensive ways. In the sphere of co-management, many studies have concluded that different levels of competence and distributed decision-making along with multiple stakeholders with multiple relationships (Carlsson and Berkes 2005;Marín and Berkes 2010;Trimble and Berkes 2015).…”

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The Daudkandi model of community floodplain aquaculture in Bangladesh: a case for Ostrom’s design principles

Bayazid

2016

Int J Commons

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Floodplain water-bodies are one of the major common-pool resources (CPRs) of Bangladesh and constitute more than fifty percent of inland open water bodies. Throughout the British colonial period, Pakistani rule and the first one and half decades of independent Bangladesh, a majority of inland water-bodies remained under direct government management, though the floodplains, by getting heavily inundated during the monsoon, turn into an open access resource. In the mid-1980s, co-management was introduced on a small scale with the help of NGOs as providers of management styles and credit to communities of fishers or villagers. NGOs also got involved in floodplain water-bodies and came up with different models of user-managed fishery bodies. This paper examines a specific management system of community-governed floodplain aquaculture (FPA) known as the Daudkandi model, developed by a local NGO in the Daudkandi sub-district of the Comilla district. Applying the design principles developed by Ostrom (1990) characterizing long surviving successful user-managed commonpool resource institutions, this paper explores the rules devised by partners in the management of a FPA under the Daudkandi model. Though the FPA management model is relatively new (i.e. it has been adopted in 1996) it has been found to follow the design principles in devising its management rules. However, because of its unique features in terms of seasonality, the NGO-community partnership, the exclusion of past users, and numerous replications, the future of the model as a CPR governance system holds many challenges and deserves a continuous research focus.Keywords: Bangladesh, common-pool resource, floodplain aquaculture, Ostrom's design principles The Daudkandi model of community floodplain aquaculture in Bangladesh 855Acknowledgement: I would like to express my deepest gratitude towards the staff of the NGO, SHISUK and Pankowri Fisheries Ltd. for their generous support during collection of the data. I am also deeply indebted to the reviewers for their criticisms, comments and suggestions. I would also like to acknowledge the continuous guidance and assistance of Dr.

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“…There is abundant literature on fisherfolk organisations such as cooperatives (Jentoft 1985and 1986, Hannesson 1988, Meynell 1984and 1990, on co-management (Brown and Pomeroy 1999, Pomeroy et al 2004, Pomeroy and RiveraGuieb 2005 and on adaptive co-management (Armitage et al 2007, Trimble andBerkes 2015). These provide much information from both conceptual and empirical Fig.…”

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Building the Barbados National Union of Fisherfolk Organisations

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Nicholls

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Maritime Studies

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The Barbados National Union of Fisherfolk Organisations was formed in 1999 under a fisherfolk organisation development project. The aim was for this national body in fisherfolk governance to strengthen the capacities of its local level organisation members. Its evolution from origin to the present illustrates the complexities of capacity development at organisation and individual levels. The former concerns building organisational resilience while the latter is about sustaining livelihoods. Poverty strictly in terms of income, food security and nutrition are not major issues in Barbados, but the fisheries sector lacks an effective collective voice. Hence, fishery workers report feeling less recognised and entitled than workers in other economic sectors. Poverty has evolved conceptually to also consider self-organisation and collective action, consistent with resilience thinking. These new dimensions are important in Barbados. In participatory action research comprising mostly workshops and interviews, the organisation was investigated using an integrated framework for analysing aspects of governance, livelihoods and organisational resilience. The evolution of the Barbados National Union of Fisherfolk Organisations was not linear, and it was impacted by factors favouring both its success and failure to become a resilient fisherfolk organisation. Implementing the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) is the current focus for the organisation's capacity development. Examining fisherfolk perspectives on how they will go about developing capacity for and through the SSF Guidelines provided further insight into organisational resilience. Lessons learned from this case are applicable to similar Caribbean fisherfolk organisations.

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Towards adaptive co-management of small-scale fisheries in Uruguay and Brazil: lessons from using Ostrom’s design principles

Cited by 60 publications

References 51 publications

Managing small-scale fisheries in Colombia

Managing small-scale fisheries in Colombia

The Daudkandi model of community floodplain aquaculture in Bangladesh: a case for Ostrom’s design principles

Building the Barbados National Union of Fisherfolk Organisations

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