Hard choices in fisheries development

2000

Traditional fisheries management offer a means to protect and regulate inshore fisheries in the Global South that are under constant threat.

Current fishing practices show a global trend of stock depletions. Overfishing was recognized as an international problem in the early 1900s and since then has drawn attention of a number of international programmes, especially directed at environmental managers and the governments of many nations. However, the common pool nature of fish resources poses constraints for management. In particular, multispecies fisheries, as found in South Asian waters, have complex dynamics and pose additional constraints for management. The use of closed season/areas to control fishing efforts is a basic management tool in fisheries. The breeding season varies for different species and, hence, the closed season (and/or area) must be targeted at certain critical time periods (and/or habitats) of importance to key species. Such regulations made by the legislature, executive, or, at times, by the judiciary give rise to conflicts between industrial and traditional fishers and between the different instit...

Ocean Yearbook Online, 2000

Agriculture and Human Values, 1988

published by Oxford University Press in 1983, and Indonesian Marine Capture Fisheries, a 1987 ICLARM publication which he co-authored with two Indonesian colleagues. His primary research interests are in the political economy of development and the sociology of natural resources and the environment.

Fish and Fisheries, 2007

Nature, 2002