Customary sea tenure in Oceania as a case of rights-based fishery management: Does it work?

Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 285-307

  Aswani, Shankar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Customary sea tenure (CST); Hybrid institutions; Institutional performance; ITQs and CDQs; Oceania; Solomon Islands

Indexed keywords

FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHING; MARINE RESOURCE; RESOURCE USE;

MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOLOMON ISLANDS [(ISG) MELANESIA];

EID: 33644968774     PISSN: 09603166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11160-005-4868-x     Document Type: Article

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