Conservation incentives and collective choices in cooperative fisheries

摘要: Cooperatives are increasingly proposed as solutions for sustainable fisheries management. While individual case studies and economic theory suggest that cooperatives may manage effectively under some conditions, there is little empirical evidence comparing the actions of cooperative across a diverse set environments. This study applies standardized survey method to collect data from cooperatively managed around globe, documenting their social, economic, ecological settings well behaviors in which they engage role play conservation. The resulting database covers 67 major oceanic regions world, providing unique overview global diversity fishery cooperatives. It enables analysis links between characteristics contexts fisheries, such development status host nation, management practices, species characteristics, collective taken by shows form variety governance contexts, kinds fisheries. Fishery often take directed toward coordinating harvest activities, adopting enforcing restrictions on fishing methods effort, taking direct conservation establishment private marine protected areas.