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Property Rights and Rights Allocation for Fisheries Co-Management in Tam Giang Lagoon, Viet Nam

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dc.contributor.author Tuyen, Truong Van
dc.date.accessioned 2011-04-08T15:31:38Z
dc.date.available 2011-04-08T15:31:38Z
dc.date.issued 2011 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7205
dc.description.abstract "Common pool resources such as lagoon fisheries are often overexploited and in decline due factors such as local poverty and unclear property rights. Overexploitation has resulted from a historically open access system. In Tam Giang Lagoon, Viet Nam, the State rights holders have developed numerous management regulations, but appropriate institutional arrangements are not in place to facilitate implementation. As a consequence, through traditional rights, resource users take opportunities to increase their access to and use of lagoon resources without taking adequate responsibility for protection. Improved management in this context requires a form of governance (such as co-management) which allows active and empowered local communities to play key roles. This type of arrangement needs to involve the allocation of resource rights so that power is shared between the government and resource users and/or their associated organisations. This paper draws on research from the Tam Giang Lagoon about current property rights regimes and the rights practices in the coastal lagoon areas, to highlight the need for developing fisheries associations and supporting rights allocation. This paper also outlines the processes that were used to implement co-management of fisheries resources in the lagoon area of Vinh Giang Commune, which included initiatives on the allocation of fishing rights to fisheries associations. This was the first application in Viet Nam where fishing rights were allocated to user organisations. This application of rights facilitated the formalisation of a collective/communal property rights regime over fisheries resources and enabled the operation of fisheries co-management between the local government and fisheries associations. The piloting of co-management in the lagoon area in Vinh Giang also put into place appropriate institutional arrangements which increased control over resource exploitation." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject common pool resources en_US
dc.subject property rights en_US
dc.subject fisheries en_US
dc.subject co-management en_US
dc.subject allocation rules en_US
dc.title Property Rights and Rights Allocation for Fisheries Co-Management in Tam Giang Lagoon, Viet Nam en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.type.published unpublished en_US
dc.type.methodology Case Study en_US
dc.coverage.region East Asia en_US
dc.coverage.country Vietnam en_US
dc.subject.sector Fisheries en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Sustaining Commons: Sustaining Our Future, the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates January 10-14 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Hyderabad, India en_US


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