Challenges for the Co-Management of Fisheries in the Brazilian Amazon

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"This paper examines the experience of the co- management of fisheries in the Brazilian Amazon. Here, while considerable progress has been made in setting up a functional co-management system, it suffers from serious problems that undermine its effectiveness and threaten its long-term sustainability. Unless communities are permitted to restrict access and charge user fees, it is unlikely that the co-management system will survive once funding for project implementation terminates. There are, however, legal precedents for making the necessary design changes, thereby increasing prospects for the long term institutional sustainability of the system."

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fisheries, co-management, institutional analysis, common pool resources

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