Tenure and Fishing Rights 2018

Publications

Please find below some publications elaborating on the topic of tenure and rights-based approaches in fisheries. Please kindly click on the title in order to be directed to the publication. Please note that the list below is non-exhaustive. 

2019

FAO. 2019. Report of the Friends of User Rights 2019 Meeting (Four19). Borgo di Tragliata, Italy, 11–14 February 2019

2016

FAO. 2016. Report of Tenure and Fishing Rights 2015: A global forum on rights-based approaches for fisheries, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 23-27 March 2015. Rome, Italy.

2015

FAO. 2015.  Proceedings of the Workshop on the Governance of Tenure in Fisheries and Aquaculture in the Republic of Korea.  21–23 June 2011 Seoul, Republic of Korea.

2014

FAO. 2014. Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Securities and Poverty Eradication. Rome. 26 p.

2013 

FAO. 2013. Implementing improved tenure governance in fisheries- A technical guide to support the implementation of the voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the context of national food security. Preliminary version, September 2013. Rome. 71 p. 

2012

FAO. 2012. Voluntary Guidelines for Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security Rome. 42 p.

2011

FAO. 2011. Report of the FAO Workshop on Governance of Tenure for Responsible Capture Fisheries. Rome, 4–6 July 2011. Rome, Italy.

2010

Metzner, R., Isokawa, D., Liu, Y., Wells, F. 2010. Sharing the Fish '06: Allocation issues in fisheries management. Fremantle, Western Australia, 27 February–2 March 2006. FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Proceedings. No. 15. Rome, FAO. 253p.

2009

FAO. 2009. The Code of Conduct for responsible fisheries and indigenous peoples: An Operational Guide. Rome. 48 p.

2008

Westlund, L.; Holvoet, K.; Kébé, M. (eds) Achieving poverty reduction through responsible fisheries. Lessons from West and Central Africa. FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper. No. 513. Rome, FAO. 2008. 168 p.

FAO. 2008. Case studies in fisheries self-governance. Townsend, R., Shotton, R. & Uchida, H. (eds). FAO Fisheries Technical Paper. No. 504.

2007 

FAO. 2007. Making global governance work for small-scale fisheries. New Directions in Fisheries – A Series of Policy Briefs on Development Issues, No. 09. FAO, Rome. 16 pp.

FAO. 2007. Increasing the contribution of small-scale fisheries to poverty alleviation and food security. Béné, C.; Macfadyen, G.; Allison, E.H. Series title: FAO Fisheries Technical Paper - T481. 

FAO. 2007. Fishing Capacity Management and illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in Asia. RAP Publication 2007/16. FAO, Rome.

2006

FAO. 2006. Report of the Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization and FAO National Stakeholders'Workshops on Fishing Effort and Capacity on Lake Victoria. FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Report No. 818. Mukono, Uganda. 

2005 

FAO. 2005. Reducing fisherfolk's vulnerability leads to responsible fisheries. SFLP New Directions in Fisheries. A Series of Policy Briefs on Development Issues - No.01.

FAO. 2005. Increasing the contribution of small-scale fisheries to poverty alleviation and food security. FAOSeries title: FAO Technical Guidelines for Responsible Fisheries  - No.10.

FAO. 2005. Policy and legislative frameworks for co-management. G. Macfadyen, P. Cacaud & P, Kuemlangan. FAO/ Fishcode Review No. 17. Rome, FAO. 2005. 51p. 

FAO. 2005. Overcoming factors of unsustainability and overexploitation in fisheries: selected papers on issues and approaches. FAO/Japan Government Cooperative Programme. FAO Fisheries Report No. 782.

2004

FAO. 2004. Report of the Expert Consultation on the Role of Small-scale Fisheries in Poverty Alleviation and Food Security. FAOSeries title: FAO Fisheries Report - R749.

FAO. 2004. Creating legal space for community-based fisheries and customary marine tenure in the Pacific: issues and opportunities. Blaise Kuemlangan. Fishcode Review No 7. FAO, Rome. 

FAO. 2004. The conservation and management of shared fish stocks: legal and economic aspects. G. Munro, A. van Houtte & R. Willmann. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper - 465.

FAO. 2004. Legislating for property rights in fisheries. Christine Stewart. FAO Legislative Study 83. FAO, Rome. 

2002 

FAO. 2002. Report of the Expert Consultation on Catalysing the Transition away from Overcapacity in Marine Capture Fisheries. FAO Fisheries Report No. 691. FAO, Rome. 

FAO. 2002. Report of the Workshop on the Harmonization of Marine Fisheries Policy within Coastal Countries of the Southern African Development Community. Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania, 24-27 July 2001. FAO Fisheries Report. No. 662. Rome, FAO. 136p.

Seilert, H.E.W., ed. 2002. Interactive mechanisms for small-scale fisheries management: Report of the regional consultation. FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand. RAP Publication 2002/10, 153 pp.

2001

FAO. 2001. Case studies on the allocation of transferable quota rights in fisheries. Edited by Shotton, R. (FAO). FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 411.

FAO. 2001. Case Studies on the Effects of Transferable Fishing Rights. Edited by Shotton, R. (FAO). FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 412.

FAO. 2001. Understanding the cultures of fishing communities: a key to fisheries management and food security. McGoodwin, J.R. Series title: FAO Fisheries Technical Paper  - T401.

2000

FAO. 2000. Sustainable contribution of fisheries to food security. FAO. Series title: RAP Publication - 2000/23.

FAO. 2000. State of Fisheries and Aquaculture 2000: FAO flagship publication including information on rights-based approaches in fisheries. 

FAO. 2000. The Use of Fixed Gear as a Basis for Property Rights Management. Use of property rights in fisheries management: Proceedings of the Fishrights99 conference, Fremantle, Western Australia, 11-19 November 1999. F.T. Christy (Author) in Shotton, R. (Ed.). FAO Fisheries Technical Paper, No.404/1. FAO, Rome.

1999

FAO. 1999. Common Property Rights: An Alternative to ITQs. Use of property rights in fisheries management: Proceedings of the Fishrights99 conference, Fremantle, Western Australia, 11-19 November 1999. F.T Christy (Author) in Shotton, R. (ed.). FAO Fisheries Technical Paper, No.404/2. FAO, Rome.

1997

FAO. 1997. Individual quota management in fisheries: methodologies for determining catch quotas and initial quota allocations. G.R. Morgan. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper No. 371. FAO, Rome. 

Christy, F.T. 1997. The Development and Management of Marine Fisheries in Latin America and the Caribbean Washington. Washington, D.C. July 1997 - No. ENV-110. 

1996

Christy, F.T. 1996. The Death Rattle of Open Access and the Advent of Property Rights Regimes in Fisheries. Marine Resource Economics, Volume 11:287–304.  

1994

FAO. 1994. A Guide to the Literature on Traditional Community-based Fishery Management in the Asia-Pacific Tropics. K. Ruddle. Fisheries Circular No. 869, FIPP/C869. Rome, FAO. 114 pp.

Morris, M.J., Hotta, M., Atapattu, A.R. 1994. Report and Proceedings of the Sri Lanka/ FAO National Workshop on Community-Based Fisheries Management. Colombo, 3 - 5 October 1994, Madras. BOBP, Report No. 72, pp 237.

1993

FAO. 1993. Marine Fisheries and the Law of the Sea: A Decade of Change (F.T. Christy & FAO staff). A Special Chapter (revised) of The State of Food and Agriculture, 1992, FAO Fisheries Circular No. 853. FAO, Rome.

1992

FAO. 1992. Territorial use rights and economic efficiency: the case of the Philippine fishing concessions. I. R. Smith & T. Panayotou Series title: FAO Fisheries Technical Paper  - T 245.

FAO. 1992. FAO/ Japan Consultation on the Development of the Community-Based Coastal Fishery Management Systems for Asia and the Pacific. Kobe, Japan, 8 - 12 June. FAO Fisheries Report - R474, Suppl. 1 - 2. 

1990

FAO. 1990. Options for the Management of Tuna Fisheries in the Indian Ocean. F.T Christy & William Burke. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper No. 315. 

1988

FAO. 1988. Malaysia: Proposal for Matang Area Fisheries Management Scheme. A Report prepared for the Pilot Management Project for Fisheries. F.T.Christy, D.J. Staples and K.Ruddle. Technical Cooperation Programme. FAO, Rome. 80 pp. 

FAO. 1988. Studies on the role of fishermen's organizations in fisheries management. Fishermen's organizations and their role in fisheries management: theoretical considerations and experiences from industrialized countries. Rognvaldur Hannesson & John Kurien. Series title: FAO Fisheries Technical Paper - T 300.

1987

FAO. 1987. Administration and conflict management in Japanese coastal fisheries. K. Ruddle. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper (273). 93p.

1983

FAO. 1983. Report of the Expert Consultation on the regulation of fishing effort (fishing mortality). Rome, 17–26 January 1983. A preparatory meeting for the FAO World Conference on fisheries management and development. FAO Fish.Rep., (289). 34p.

1982 

FAO. 1982. Territorial use rights in marine fisheries: definitions and conditions. F.T. Christy. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper T 227. 

1980 

FAO. 1980. Some Problems of the management of shared stocks. J.A. Gulland. Series Title: FAO Fisheries Technical Paper - T 206.

1977

Christy, F.T. 1977. Transitions in the Management and Distribution of International Fisheries. Reprinted from "Restructuring Ocean Regimes: Implications of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, edited by Edward Miles. In International Organization Volume 31, Number 2.

1975

Property Rights in the World Ocean; Natural Resources Journal, 695.

1974

Christy, F.T. 1974. Disparate Fisheries: Problems for the Law of the Sea Conference and Beyond. Ocean Development and International Law Journal Volume 1, Number 4. 

1973

Fisherman Quotas: A Tentative Suggestion for Domestic Management. Law of the Sea Institute, University of Rhode Island. Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Arrangements: A Test of the Species Approach.Ocean Development and International Law Journal Volume 1, Number 1.

1972

Christy, F.T. 1972. Fisheries Management and the Law of the Sea. In Organization for Economic Co-operation and development (OECD), Economic Aspects of Fish Production, International Symposium on Fisheries Economics, OECD, Paris.

1969

FAO. 1969. Fisheries Management and the limitation of fishing. J.A. Gulland. Series Title: FAO Fisheries Technical Paper - T 92. 

1965 

Christy, F.T., Scott, A. 1965. The Common Wealth of the Ocean Fisheries. Resources for the Future INC. Maryland: John Hopkins Press, London: Oxford University Press.