FISHERMEN ORGANIZATIONS IN FISHERIES MANAGEMENT - PERSPECTIVES FOR FISHERIES COMANAGEMENT BASED ON DANISH FISHERIES

This paper examines the role of fishermen's organisations in the fishe ries management decision-making process based on Danish experiences. T he fishing industry world-wide is facing large challenges in the years to come deriving from the management system, technology and the marke t. These challenges cannot be met without the central fisheries admini stration entering into a constructive dialogue with the user-groups, w hich are often referred to as cc-management in the literature. A typol ogy of fishermen's organisations is developed in order to emphasize th e differences in motivation and capacity of fishermen's organisations and evaluate their strategies and effectiveness in relation to partici pation in fisheries cc-management institutions. The paper concludes wi th a discussion on how the present performance of fishermen's organisa tions meet future requirements related to fisheries management and mar ket development. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.