Graduation Year
Spring 2013
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Environmental Analysis
Reader 1
Nina Karnovsky
Reader 2
Heather Williams
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© 2012 Charlotte L. Dohrn
Abstract
Commercial fisheries on the West Coast are traditionally managed under large-scale management and conservation plans implemented by state and federal agencies. This scale of management can present obstacles for fishing communities. This thesis examines emerging cases of attempts to define and implement sustainable management of commercial fisheries under a community-based co-management model. In Port Orford, Sitka, San Diego and Santa Barbara, preliminary community-based co-management models are enabling fishing communities to pursue social sustainability through preserving access, participating in local science, and direct marketing for fish products. These communities are actively reshaping traditional models of conceptualizing and managing common-pool resources like fisheries.
Recommended Citation
Dohrn, Charlotte L., "A New Commons: Considering Community-Based Co-Management for Sustainable Fisheries" (2013). Pomona Senior Theses. 81.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/81
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