ThursdayFriday
April 29-30, 2004
102 Fishery Sciences
(auditorium)
Les ClarkConsultant, Ray ResearchRights-Based Fishery Management: Some Developing Country Experience |
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There has been relatively little adoption of rights-based management in industrial-scale fisheries in developing countries for a number of reasons. These include the complexities associated with administering more sophisticated forms of rights regimes and problems of applying limits and allocation in fisheries where the right recipients can be more difficult to identify and granting of economic opportunities of potentially high value is more problematic. However, rights-based management creates powerful economic effects which can be used to build domestic fishing industries, and empower national and indigenous participation. Some experience from Namibia and the Pacific Islands region is considered.
Les Clark is currently a consultant with Ray Research, a fisheries management and fisheries information systems consulting company based in New Zealand. Prior to this, Clark worked in the Solomon Islands as Deputy Director of the Forum Fisheries Agency, in Fiji with USAID, in Oman with USAID/Oman Fisheries and in Namibia as a FAO Special Technical Advisor to the Minister of Fisheries. Clark has worked primarily in the areas of fisheries economics, fisheries institutional development, fisheries development assistance project design, management and evaluation and public sector management, including the specific areas of EEZ regimes, fisheries management systems, fisheries development strategies, compliance programs, fisheries research programs, and training in fisheries management and policy. He has a M.A. (Hons) in Economics from Auckland.
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