Part 2 of these proceedings contains papers of presentations made during the workshop sessions of FishRights99, which were held during the last two days of the Conference. Seventy-six papers were presented in three parallel sessions. Workshop sessions addressed the themes of: Introduction to rights-based management; What are property rights?; Evolution of rights-based management; Comanagement and rights-based management; Multiple communities and rights-based management; Applying rights-based management; Applying rights-based management to developing countries; Responsibilities and rights-based management; Denominating rights; and Looking forward: challenges and opportunities. Thus, the workshop papers addressed national experiences in the design, implementation and modification of rights-based systems of fisheries management. The presentations included those made from the perspective of the fishing industry, government policy-makers and administrators and the legal implications as a consequence of national systems of law. Those concerned with the social and economic implications of this form of management reviewed the implications for communities affected by such changes in fisheries management approach. Many papers describe specific national implementation experiences, both positive and negative, and national programme successes and "less-than-successes". Other papers deal with the social, economic and legal theory appertaining to this form of management. Of the 76 papers presented during the workshop part of the Conference, two were withdrawn after presentation and three were given only as oral presentations or in outline form.
