Description
Besides the erroneous assumption that tropical fisheries are ‘open access’, the cases demonstrate that pre-existing systems (1) are concerned with the community of fishers and ensuring community harmony and continuity; (2) involve flexible, multiple and overlapping rights adapted to changing needs and circumstances; (3) that fisheries are just one component of a community resource assemblage and depend on both the good management of linked upstream ecosystems and risk management to ensure balanced nutritional resources of the community; and (4) pre-existing systems are greatly affected by a constellation of interacting external pressures.
Table of Contents
An Introduction to Pre-existing Local Management Systems in Southeast Asia.- Pre-existing Fisheries Management Systems in Indonesia, Focusing on Lombok and Maluku.- Open to All?: Reassessing Capture Fisheries Tenure Systems in Southern Laos.- Seasonal Ritual and the Regulation of Fishing in Batanes Province, Philippines.- Pre-existing Inland Fisheries Management in Thailand: The Case of the Lower Songkhram River Basin.- Vietnam: The van chai System of Social Organization and Fisheries Community Management.- Conclusion: Errors and Insights.
