The Co-management Survey report: an executive summary
Co-management is typically known to be a resource management system that shares managerial responsibility between the state and other stakeholders of a resource. In the case of Lake Victoria, one would expect the state to be represented by the fisheries departments of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, while stakeholder groups may comprise fishing communities, fish processing factories and municipalities.Taking that into account, the survey's objectives were defined as:(a) To identify the difficulties and impracticalities inherent in implementing state-based regulations via a "top-down" management strategy.(b) To assess the prevalence of community-based institutions that either seek to regulate the fishery or have the potential to be used to regulate it.(c) To identify ways in which community-based regulatory and monitory systems may be established, and how these will fare over time.(d) To identify roles for national Fisheries Departments, industrial fish processors and other stakeholders.(e) To develop well-founded policy suggestions for the establishment of a co-management framework to manage the fisheries of Lake Victoria.
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| Format: | book_section biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Lake Victoria Fisheries Research Project
2000
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| Subjects: | Fisheries, Management, Policies, Africa, Lake Victoria, co-management, fisheries stakeholders, community-based institutions, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/22482 |
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| Summary: | Co-management is typically known to be a resource management system that shares managerial responsibility between the state and other stakeholders of a resource. In the case of Lake Victoria, one would expect the state to be represented by the fisheries departments of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, while stakeholder groups may comprise fishing communities, fish processing factories and municipalities.Taking that into account, the survey's objectives were defined as:(a) To identify the difficulties and impracticalities inherent in implementing state-based regulations via a "top-down" management strategy.(b) To assess the prevalence of community-based institutions that either seek to regulate the fishery or have the potential to be used to regulate it.(c) To identify ways in which community-based regulatory and monitory systems may be established, and how these will fare over time.(d) To identify roles for national Fisheries Departments, industrial fish processors and other stakeholders.(e) To develop well-founded policy suggestions for the establishment of a co-management framework to manage the fisheries of Lake Victoria. |
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