From community-based to co-management: Improvement or deterioration in fisheries governance in the Cherai Poyil fishery in the Cochin Estuary,Kerala, India? |
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Authors: | Kaleekal Thomson Tim Gray |
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Institution: | 1. School of Industrial Fisheries, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin 682 016, Kerala, India;2. School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, Newcastle on Tyne NE1 7RU, UK |
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Abstract: | 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 co-management 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. |
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Keywords: | Community-based fisheries management Co-management Cherai Poyil fishery Kerala |
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