In coastal fisheries, the design, development, and implementation of fishery management actions can be challenging. Each unique fishery setting has diverse characteristics – such as existing management frameworks, cultural connections and traditional practices, and degree of stakeholder engagement – that influence the process of engaging community members in setting up management actions that are appropriate for the suite of harvested species and can be realistically enforced. This symposium session seeks to bring together community members, scientists, managers and other fisheries practitioners who are working on the design and implementation of community-led fisheries management actions or regulations. We encourage presenters to share experiences and lessons from applied, real settings. Although this may include all aspects of fisheries management, from collecting data to assessing stock status, an emphasis will be placed on tools and approaches that have been used to integrate local knowledge in the design of management actions and direct community member involvement.
Organizer: Serena Lomonico, The Nature Conservancy, [email protected]
Co-organizers: Eric Conklin, Rebecca Most, Peyton Moore, Ulu Ching, Amber Datta
Supported by: The Nature Conservancy, Nature Analytics, Conservation International