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Fishing Community Initiatives in Community BasedFisheries Management and The Sitka DeclarationCommunity‐based fisheries seeks to develop and implement new practices of sustainable fisheries management that areresponsive to the scale of communities, their fisheries, and their social and economic structures and dynamics.Approximately 40 U.S. and Canadian practitioners, fishermen, and community leaders gathered in Sitka, Alaska todiscuss issues, strategies, and next steps in community‐based fisheries management (CBFM). The workshop, a follow‐upmeeting to one held in October 2004 in Maine, focused on the opportunities and appetite for a broad based movementin the U.S. and Canada. The group proved to be a very powerful and motivated collection of experienced thinkers on thetopic and they rose to the occasion.Three focal groups met during the meeting:•a 'framework declaration' group declaration document,•an 'on‐the‐ground' tools and practices group,•and a U.S. Magnuson‐Stevens Sustainable Fisheries Act reauthorization group.More broadly the meeting was an opportunity to assess what these activities could sum up to and what the next stepsshould be and how these will be supported through organizations and with what funding.This ongoing effort reflects the immense nature and challenges of the issues ofcommunity scale, leadership capacity, and running "against the tide" of currentand entrenched trends in fisheries management in both the U.S. and Canada.The meeting served to catalyze west coast participation and views into the nationwide gathering.Funded by the Ford Foundation.
Proposal for Forum of Fishermen, NGO’s, and GovernmentAgencies to Explore Expansion of the Use of Sectors, Catch Share, andCommunity Based Fisheries Management in the Northeast and Caribbean"Wealth that is free for all is valued by none because he who is foolhardy enough to wait for its propertime of use will only find that it has been taken by another...." H. Scott Gordon (The Economic Theoryof a Common Property Resource: The Fishery, 1954)“The world’s fisheries offer a contemporary example of the tragedy of the commons. Because oceans areunowned, each fishing fleet has no incentive to conserve or replenish the fish it takes and it has every incentiveto take as many fish as possible lest the benefits of a larger catch go to someone else.” Kent Jeffreys, “Rescuingthe Oceans,” in The True State of the Planet, Ron Bailey, ed. (New York: The Free Press, 1995).
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