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Community‐based Fisheries Management, Tradition and the Challenges of Development in Marovo, Solomon Islands
Author(s) -
Hviding Edvard,
Baines Graham B. K.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
development and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.267
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-7660
pISSN - 0012-155X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7660.1994.tb00508.x
Subject(s) - multitude , fisheries law , fisheries management , politics , common pool resource , resource management (computing) , state (computer science) , resource (disambiguation) , control (management) , fisheries science , environmental resource management , marine conservation , common ownership , fishery , management system , scale (ratio) , business , political science , geography , economics , management , law , fishing , computer network , algorithm , computer science , biology , microeconomics , cartography
This study examines traditional fisheries‐related resource management through a case in which local communities, from a basis of customary, ‘common property’ control over the sea and its resources, handle a multitude of development issues. Presenting first some important issues relating to people's role in fisheries management and to the ‘common property’ debate, the article then describes a traditional system for management of land and sea resources in a Pacific Islands society; that of Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands. Emphasis is given to fisheries resources, with a view to explaining in practical terms how a system of customary marine tenure operates under the wider social, political, economic and ecological circumstances of change arising from development pressures. Against this background, assessments are made of the viability of this traditional fisheries management system under present conditions of state control and of both external and internal pressures for large‐scale resource development enterprises.