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government) and resource users to realize in the shortand medium term returns from their investment in CRM.These alternatives include mariculture development,community-based ecotourism, municipal water usezoning, community-based mangrove management, andlicensing and fees. (Flores, 1999b)Technical-assistance type projects such as CRMPgenerally are not designed to provide direct commodityand financial assistance to beneficiaries. This initiallyproved to be a handicap, as economic barriers often gotin the way of our effort to promote sustainable behavior.Where the target specific behavior—for example, reducefishing effort—could have a substantial impact onlivelihood, we recognized early on that change could onlybe attempted with at least a promise of economic assistanceto resource users. This would be a major challenge forany project with no built-in credit facility for affectedresource users, especially where the target of behaviorchange are collateral-poor marginal fishers with no accessto land or capital, as is the case in most areas in thePhilippines. In many cases, the success of a CRM programFig. 4.2. Sample map produced through PCRA (Walterset al. 1998)Fig. 4.3. Sample diagram produced through PCRA (Walters et al. 1998)25