Successful community-based management of coastal fisheries needs an enabling environment, where policy and governance frameworks are in place across all levels of government to allow rights-based management between fishers, communities and local government, through the legal, functional and financially-sustained implementation of Managed Access + Reserve networks.
These can include the set-up or strengthening of legal instruments, regulation, decision-making, enforcement and adjudication systems.
INSTRUCTIONS
1.Search for ProFi, the professional fisher in the picture. ProFi always wear an orange shirt and blue pants with a fisher hat and sometimes in blue vest. ProFi lives in a community where there is effective fisheries policy and governance.
2. Locate scenes in the image below where Profi appears. For example, ProFi is in a patrol boat joining the enforcement team.
3. Complete the Quiz: Signs of Effective Policy and Governance by filling in the blanks.
QUIZ
Fill in the blanks
ProFi lives in a coastal community with effective coastal policy, governance and enforcement. It is characterized by the following:
Answer Choices ( open, close, stakeholders, patrolling, boats, size, easement, catch)
1.________ are with registration plates and painted in the same color.
2. Different zones in the municipal waters with different gears placement/gear deployment limit.
3. A functional fisher identification system.
4. Regular ____________ of enforcement teams.
5.Regulations on the _______________zone for structures along the coastlines.
6. Group of __________________ are meeting regularly using science to design zones.
7. Ordinances on ______and_______ season of economically important species.
8 &10 Regulations on ___________and ___________ limits.
9. Fishers are landing their catch in the fish landing area.
REFLECTION
What new insights did you learn in terms of how fishery resources are managed and govern?
What aspects of effective fisheries governance and policy are in place? what are we proud of about how your fisheries is being governed and managed?
What else might we need to do to further enhance what is already working?
What decisions can we make now to realize effective community-based fisheries?