It is now common knowledge that marine fisheries are in trouble and this trouble extends from near to offshore areas and affects most regions of the Earth. The prob- lems have arisen in the context of a well-developed fisheries science that has largely focused on the resource and the biophysical aspects that control the resource, but has paid less attention to the social aspects of the …
Members of the Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation organized this book through their annual meetings and a discussion group on community-based fisheries management. Discussion group members asked knowledgeable co-authors to assist with the development of their chapters, and other authors and chapters were invited to participate based on measures of management progress reported in the lar…