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Dear All,
The following FAO/FI publication (Rights-based management in Latin American fisheries)
has been printed and was released on the FAO Web site. It is hopefully of use to those of you working on fisheries management in the Latin American and Caribbean region. Please
see below.
FAO would very much appreciate if you could bring this publication to the attention of interested parties you may be in contact with.
Kind regards,
Raymon van Anrooy
Raymon van Anrooy
Fisheries and Aquaculture Officer
FAO Subregional Office for the Caribbean
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Orensanz, J. M. & Seijo, J. C. 2013. Rights-based management in Latin American fisheries. FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper, No. 582. Rome, FAO.
136 pp.
This document aims to provide a better understanding of the wide range of rights-based fisheries management systems in Latin-America. Rights-based management in the
Latin American region is evolving, thus creating a wide diversity of schemes responding to local fisheries contexts, and institutional, resource and ecosystem dynamics and governance capacities. The document has been developed in two parts. Part I (edited and
co-authored by Jose Maria Orensanz) presents case studies of fisheries targeting sedentary resources while Part II (edited and co-authored by Juan Carlos Seijo) presents case studies of industrial and small-scale finfish fisheries in the region The case studies
presented in Part I include the following regimes: (i) limited entry or moratoria combined with a total allowable catch; (ii) catch shares;(iii) territorial-use privileges; and (iv) territorial communal rights by [customary? and indigenous users). Case studies
of finfish fisheries include the following: (i) individual vessel quotas combined with spatial quota allocation rights; (ii) individual fishing quotas; (iii) rights of access to particular fishing areas or territories; and (iv) individual effort quotas. Each
case specifies the main attributes of the access rights (in a broad sense, including privileges), whether formal or informal: (i) how the rights are conferred and upheld; (ii) exclusivity of participation in the fishery;(iii) duration of the rights conferred;
(iv) security or quality of the title conferred by the rights; (v) transferability, divisibility and flexibility in the use of the rights; and (vi) actual rights enforceability and corresponding compliance. The study also reports on aspects of the harvest strategies
in place, including: (i) fishing methods and gear; (ii) when fishing is authorized to take place; (iii) harvest controls; and (iv) monitoring
For more information about this publication, please contact Mr. Carlos Fuentevilla at [log in to unmask].
The document is being translated and will hopefully be disseminated as well in Spanish soon.