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Shark fishery and conservation in Indian waters: need for a National Plan of Action

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Title Shark fishery and conservation in Indian waters:
need for a National Plan of Action
 
Creator Zacharia, P U
Vivekanandan, E
 
Subject Shark fisheries
 
Description Conserving marine resources and managing fisheries have been put in an ecosystem perspective
in many parts of the world for some time now. The Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF)
and its many variants as enunciated by the FAO differs from most fisheries or environmental
policies, which tend to focus on single species or habitats, in that the interconnectedness of
ecological, social, and economic parameters for developing local and regional management
of an ecosystem is explicitly recognized. Despite the soundness of the concept of EAF, there
are only a few successful examples of well managed fisheries using the approach. Even when
EAF is ecologically and institutionally attainable, multiple problems can arise from competing
interests among stakeholders, undeveloped or inappropriate governance structures, poor
science, or lack of political will. The situation is perhaps more complex in the tropics due to
the large number of co-occurring species, gears and fishers. In the developing world, this is
compounded by the lack of a governance structure, and in places where they do exist, the lack
of its implementation.
 
Date 2013
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/9682/1/P.U.Zacharia_Ecosystem_Approaches_to_the_Management_and_Conservation_of_Fisheries_and_Marine_Biodiversity_in_the_Asia_Region.pdf
Zacharia, P U and Vivekanandan, E (2013) Shark fishery and conservation in Indian waters: need for a National Plan of Action. In: Regional Symposium on Ecosystem Approaches to Marine Fisheries & Biodiversity, October 27-30, 2013, Kochi.