Rights-based fisheries governance: from fishing rights to human rights

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-2979.2011.00405.xen
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Division
cg.identifier.publicationRankA Plus
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1467-2960en
cg.issn1467-2979en
cg.issue1en
cg.journalFish and Fisheriesen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.volume13en
dc.contributor.authorAllison, Edward H.en
dc.contributor.authorRatner, Blake D.en
dc.contributor.authorÅsgård, Björnen
dc.contributor.authorWillmann, Rolfen
dc.contributor.authorPomeroy, Robert S.en
dc.contributor.authorKurien, Johnen
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-01T13:55:36Zen
dc.date.available2024-10-01T13:55:36Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/153084
dc.titleRights-based fisheries governance: from fishing rights to human rightsen
dcterms.abstractIn the last twenty years, policy prescriptions for addressing the global crisis in fisheries have centred on strengthening fisheries governance through clarifying exclusive individual or community rights of access to fishery resources. With a focus on small‐scale developing‐country fisheries in particular, we argue that basing the case for fishery governance reform on assumed economic incentives for resource stewardship is insufficient when there are other sources of insecurity in people’s lives that are unrelated to the state of fishery resources. We argue that more secure, less vulnerable fishers make more effective and motivated fishery managers in the context of participatory or rights‐based fisheries governance, and we further suggest that insecurity among fishers living in poverty can be most effectively addressed by social and political development that invokes the existing legal framework supporting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This perspective goes well beyond the widely advocated notion of ‘rights‐based fishing’ and aligns what fishery sector analysts call the ‘rights‐based approach’ with the same terminology used in the context of international development. Embedding the fisheries governance challenge within a broader perspective of human rights enhances the chances of achieving both human development and resource sustainability outcomes in small‐scale fisheries of developing countries.en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.available2011-02-07
dcterms.bibliographicCitationAllison, Edward H.; Ratner, Blake D.; Åsgård, Björn; Willmann, Rolf; Pomeroy, Robert S.; Kurien, John 2012. Rights-based fisheries governance: from fishing rights to human rights. Fish and Fisheries 13(1):14–29en
dcterms.extentpp. 14-29en
dcterms.issued2012-03
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherWileyen
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/3521en
dcterms.subjecteconomic developmenten
dcterms.subjecthuman rightsen
dcterms.subjectproperty rightsen
dcterms.subjectfisheriesen
dcterms.subjectgovernanceen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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