Fisheries management in the Pacific: Tradition and the challenges of development in Marovo, Solomon Islands

TitleFisheries management in the Pacific: Tradition and the challenges of development in Marovo, Solomon Islands
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication1992
AuthorsHviding, E, Baines, GBK
Secondary TitleDiscussion Paper no. 32
Number of Pages23
Date PublishedMarch 1992
PublisherUnited Nations Research Institute for Social Development
CityGeneva, Switzerland
LanguageEnglish
Keywordsfishery management; Solomon Islands
Abstract

This paper, a commissioned study under the UNRISD Research Programme on "Sustainable Development Through People's Participation in Resource Management," examines a case of traditional fisheries-related resource management; a case in which local people, from a basis of traditional, "common property" control over the sea and its resources handle a multitude of development issues. Presenting first some important issues relating to people's role in fisheries management and to the "common property" debate, we then describe a traditional system for management of land and sea resources in a Pacific Islands society - that of Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands. Emphasis is given to fisheries resources, with a view to explaining in practical terms how the customary marine tenure system operates under the social, political, economic and ecological circumstances of change arising from development pressures. Against this background, assessments are made of the viability of this traditional fisheries management system under present conditions of centralized political control and of both external and internal pressures for large-scale resource development enterprises. (author)

Notes

Series title variation: Discussion paper (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development) 32

Short TitleFisheries management in the Pacific