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- Title
Implications of the New System of Fisheries Management Councils on the Community Management Regimes in the Marine Fisheries in Kerala.
- Authors
M. M., Ashkar; Sebastian, Gilbert
- Abstract
The traditional marine fisheries management practice in Kerala is a communitybased Co-management arrangement with local variations. These systems affect local villages’ resource management and entire social structure via their abundant bonding social capital. The latest three-tier Fisheries management councils are a new experiment in Kerala’s marine fisheries management, which can unify the management practices across the state coast. The researcher explored the composition and working of the councils at various levels, especially the village level councils at Kannur, Kozhikode, Kasaragod and Ernakulam districts. This research used telephonic interviews and in-depth personal interviews as the research methods. Viability of the new practice was examined with the use of Elinor Ostrom’s principles of Enduring Common Property Regimes (CPRs) and in the light of second-generation collective action theories, which focus on the role of social capital in CPRs. The researcher has found that no recognition was given to the traditional community management arrangements like the Kadakkodi (Sea court) system in Kasaragod. A provision for nomination to the village-level fisheries management councils leads to corrupt practice and politicisation, especially in Kannur District. Fisheries management councils have to be reconstituted more democratically and should consider traditional community arrangements in their composition.
- Publication
Gandhi Marg, 2023, Vol 45, Issue 3, p285
- ISSN
0016-4437
- Publication type
Article