Co-management holds promise of sustainable fisheries worldwide

2011-01-10T02:00:00

Fishing boats at Punta del Diablo, Uruguay, where fishers, managers and scientists are cooperating in the multi-species fishery there to improve management and reduce discards and incidental catches of the endangered Franciscana dolphin

Encouraging new evidence suggests that the bulk of the world’s fisheries – including small-scale, often non-industrialised fisheries on which millions of people depend for food – could be sustained using community-based co-management.

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