Marcel Bursztyn [email protected] Sustainable Development Center – University of Brasília © 2004 Antonio Oviedo and Marcel Bursztyn Abstract The problem of the non-utilization of sustainable management practices of the fishing resources in the Amazon is a result of various causes, such as the security of land tenure, inadequate public policies, the expansion of ranching into floodplains areas...

This paper presents the results of a research project, which focuses on Danish fishers’ acceptance of imposed fisheries regulations and their respect for the management system. The analytical framework developed by Raakjær Nielsen (1998) and Raakjær Nielsen and Vedsmand (1999) has been applied. The research focuses on three Danish fisheries: the cod fishery in the Baltic Sea, the demersal and N...

The literature on commons has established the validity and significance of Elinor Ostrom’s design principles for collective action. Can these principles be used to guide policies and initiatives towards adaptive co-management? We analyze this idea by using two case studies, Piriápolis (Uruguay) and Paraty (Brazil). Both cases are small-scale fisheries, and both have been experiencing a social-e...

In pursuing their livelihood, fishers develop strategies when faced with changes in regulations and other fishery conditions. Changes involve each individual in a decision‐making process governed by his/her own goals or constraints. Despite this reality, the complex dynamics of fishing has usually been ignored in designing management initiatives, which has contributed to ...

Populations of tunas, billfishes and pelagic sharks are fished at or over capacity in many regions of the world. They are captured by directed commercial and recreational fisheries (the latter of which often promote catch and release) or as incidental catch or bycatch in commercial fisheries. Population assessments of pelagic fishes typically incorporate catch-per-unit-effort time-series data f...

—Many aspects of small-scale fisheries hinder our efforts to understand their dynamics, as required for sustainable management. For example, there is no widely accepted definition of small-scale fisheries or global data on number of small-scale fishers and their catches. One reason for this is that most research on small-scale fisheries is done at community level and tends to focus on immediate...