{"id":5467,"date":"2014-05-08T11:40:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T15:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/?p=5467"},"modified":"2014-10-10T12:53:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T16:53:30","slug":"from-top-down-to-bottom-up-transitioning-to-co-management-of-local-fisheries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2014\/05\/08\/from-top-down-to-bottom-up-transitioning-to-co-management-of-local-fisheries\/","title":{"rendered":"From top down to bottom up: Transitioning to co-management of local fisheries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j7uCxeXuO0o<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWe\u2019re all on the same page for the first time, and it\u2019s amazing\u201d, Wes Erikson, Commercial Fisherman<\/i><\/p>\n<p>At the Hague <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaloceansactionsummit.com\/\">Global Oceans Action Summit<\/a> last month, Tom Grasso of the Environmental Defense Fund had the opportunity \u00a0to facilitate a co-management workshop under the theme of \u2018Models for Governance,\u2019 featuring:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wes Erikson:<\/strong>\u00a0fourth generation Commercial Fisherman, British Columbia<\/li>\n<li><strong>Raul Garcia:<\/strong> Director of Fisheries, WWF Spain<\/li>\n<li><strong>Momo Kochen:<\/strong> Science and Programme Director, Fishing and Living, Indonesia<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cathy Demesa:<\/strong>\u00a0 Executive Director, Network of Sustainable Livelihoods Catalysts, (NSLC) Inc.,\u00a0the Philippines<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dr Sunoto:<\/strong> \u00a0Advisor to the Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Indonesia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Attendees discussed the best way to achieve a transition from top down, centralised fisheries management to bottom up, community-led approaches. All agreed that successful co-management takes time, due to a need to build sustained trust and willing co-operation across different sectors such as fishermen, government, NGOs and processors \u2013 but that the investment of time pays major dividends.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>All of the field practitioners noted the similarities among triumphs and challenges they faced in implementing comanagement systems, even while it comes in many different forms. WWF\u2019s Raul Garcia drew attention to Spain\u2019s long history of co-management with the cofradias, and the continued attempts of NGOs in Spain to widen the number of fisheries in which the ethos of co-management is institutionally accepted.<\/p>\n<p>All supported prioritising investment in creating the enabling conditions necessary to encourage the adoption and spread of co-management, such as investments that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Facilitate networking, information sharing and exchanges that introduce best practices and reduce learning times and technology transfer costs.<\/li>\n<li>Strengthen the voices of local communities and of leaders at all levels of governance, to ensure their active participation in making and enforcing rules and best practices.<\/li>\n<li>Secure access rights, enhance access to markets and, where necessary, compensate local communities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is no doubt that transitioning to co-management of local fisheries is no easy task. However, the speakers at this workshop demonstrated that when a co-management system takes hold, it has the potential to transform former long-time adversaries into collaborators with recognised shared goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j7uCxeXuO0o \u201cWe\u2019re all on the same page for the first time, and it\u2019s amazing\u201d, Wes Erikson, Commercial Fisherman At the Hague Global Oceans Action Summit last month, Tom Grasso of the Environmental Defense Fund had the opportunity \u00a0to facilitate a co-management workshop under the theme of \u2018Models for Governance,\u2019 featuring: Wes Erikson:\u00a0fourth generation Commercial Fisherman, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37346],"tags":[42768,434,72537,42766,42705],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","tag-co-management","tag-collaboration","tag-europe","tag-european-fisheries","tag-sustainable-fisheries"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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