2020 Volume 60 Issue 3 Pages 125-136
Fisheries co-management is a resource management regime that closely cooperates with local fishers’ activities and administrative agencies’ legal management measures. In Japan, historically the fisheries policy has been implemented through co-management. In order to improve fisheries co-management in Japan, new scheme is required for fishers to evaluate and improve their fisheries management activities. In this paper, the concept and methodology for self-assessment scheme to improve the management of coastal fisheries was developed. Then, fishers’ workshops were conducted in Shimonoseki-Gaikai region, western Japan, and practical solutions were discussed. Proposed self-assessment scheme allows to identify strategies and specific ideas for improvements with fishers. As a result, local stakeholders utilized fishers’ self-assessment results to decision making processes for revising the “Seashore Revitalization Plan”.
