1 See also the footnote to Volume I of these proceedings.From the beginning, the Programme Committee recognized that a third and essential part of the Conference would consist of sessions at which participants could present their experiences and views, negative or positive, on the implementation of property rights in fisheries management. It was also evident early on, that in the time that was available, there would be no alternative other than to run a number of parallel sessions. The challenge for the committee then became how best to anticipate the range of topics that papers offered for presentation would cover, so as to minimize the frustrations among participants when two, or more, interesting papers were presented at the same time. I take it as a complement to the quality of the papers (rather than a reflection of the lack of skills of the Programme Committee) that I frequently found myself in this situation during the workshop sessions.
Originally, the Committee had identified twenty-two major areas of rights-bases management, clearly a number that was too large to be comfortably handled once we had agreed that there would not be more than three parallel sessions. Further, once the abstracts of a significant number of papers had been received, it became apparent that the range of issues that would be discussed exceeded even that which the Programme Committee had anticipated, and a more general grouping was considered preferable. Thus, the session topics selected in the end by my colleague Rebecca Metzner were:
An introduction to rights-based managementNot all of the papers offered for the Conference were accepted. And, all but a few, have been included in the proceedings. As the reader can attest, the papers were, in the main, of excellent calibre. The criterion that I personally used in coming to this conclusion was the number of papers that offered me new insights and information concerning situations about which I thought I was personally well informed. Many presentations described the same situation, but from different perspectives. Of great interest in this situation was the apparent convergence in views as to the attributes and weaknesses of the various applications under study despite the differing authors' backgrounds - industry, government, etc. As editor of the proceedings, I have no doubt that those who are not intimidated by the large number of papers, and do read them all, will be well rewarded and not regret the effort.
What are property rights?
Evolution of rights-based management
Co-management and rights-based management
Multiple communities and rights-based management
Applying rights-based management
Globalization and rights-based management
Responsibilities and rights-based management
Denominating rights
Looking forward: challenges and opportunities
It has been my uniform experience that all those present for the workshop sessions in Fremantle found the period intellectually exciting, not least the opportunity to meet and exchange views face-to-face with those responsible for this form of management in some many countries. There was no doubt that a special atmosphere of common interests and intellectual exchange of experiences and views. And I believe that a number of new and constructive working arrangements came to pass.
Acknowledgements are due to a wide range of people. First to my colleague Rebecca Metzner, Fisheries Western Australia, who played the major part in the organization of the workshops. To each of the workshop chairmen (see the List of Contents for names and sessions), a grateful thanks is also owed for the management of the various sessions. The number of staff at Fisheries Western Australia that strove to make this part of the conference the success it was prevents a personal mention of all. However, deserving of particular mention are Carli Gettingby, and other support staff provided by Fisheries Western Australia. To my secretary, Marie-Thérèse Magnan and script editor, Mike Mann, special thanks are given for the major effort involved in bringing this volume to publication.
Ross Shotton
Editor, Proceedings, Fishrights99
Marine Resources Service
FAO, Rome
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Shotton, R. (ed.) Use of property rights in fisheries management. Proceedings of the FishRights99 Conference. Fremantle, Western Australia, 11-19 November 1999. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper. No. 404/2. Rome, FAO. 2000. 462p. ABSTRACT Part 2 of the proceedings contains papers of presentations made during the Workshop Sessions of the Conference, which were held during the last two days of FishRights99. Seventy-six papers were presented in three parallel sessions. Workshop sessions addressed the themes of: Introduction to Rights-based ManagementThus, 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, 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 described specific national implementation experiences, both positive and negative, and national programme successes and 'less-than-successes'. Other papers dealt 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
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