Linking small-scale fisheries co-management to U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.

ABSTRACT: Small-scale fisheries account for 90% of global fishers and 40% of the global catch. Effectively managing small-scale fisheries is, therefore, crucial to progressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Co-management and community-based fisheries management are widely considered the most appropriate forms of governance for many small-scale fisheries. We outlined relationships between small-scale fisheries co-management and attainment of the SDGs, including evidence for impacts and gaps in dominant logic. We identified 11 targets across five SDGs to which small-scale fisheries co-management (including community-based fisheries management) can contribute; the theory of change by which these contributions could be achieved; and the strength of evidence for progress toward

SUBMITTER: Smallhorn-West P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10091792 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature