Customary Sea Tenure in Oceania as a Case of Rights-based Fishery Management: Does it Work?

By S. Aswani. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 2005

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Multi-level governance for large marine commons: Politics and polycentricity in Palau's protected area network (2013, background): “…tenure has been defined as ‘‘a situation in which particular groups of people [. . .] have informal or formal rights to coastal areas and in which their historical rights to use and access marine resources are, in principle, exclusionary, transferable, and enforceable’’ (Aswani, 2005, p. 287).”
Benthic mapping using local aerial photo interpretation and resident taxa inventories for designing marine protected areas (2006, background): “Finally, we studied customary sea tenure (CST) in order to select a site in which there was minimal conflict over natural resources and sea boundaries (see Aswani 2002, 2005).”
Conservation incentives and collective choices in cooperative fisheries (2013, background): “Other works have provided detailed analysis of their economic performance [10,18–21], ecological effects [22,23], social implications [14,24,25], and general structural characteristics and practices [26–28].”