scholarly journals Improving Regional Fisheries Management Organisation Decision-Making: New Hope in the South Pacific?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Guy Finny
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The South ◽  
Fish Stocks ◽  
Illegal Fishing ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Management Organisation ◽  
Regional Fisheries Management

<p>Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs) play a key role in promoting the sustainable management of high seas fisheries. However, many RFMOs are not succeeding in this task. Whilst overexploited fish stocks can be blamed on illegal fishing and on States reluctant to implement robust conservation and management decisions, fault can also be found in the design of RFMO decision-making processes, specifically the use of consensus-based decision-making and objection procedures. This paper evaluates whether a new RFMO, the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation, and its ‘cutting edge’ decision-making procedure, can act as a model for more effective RFMO decision-making.</p>

scholarly journals Improving Regional Fisheries Management Organisation Decision-Making: New Hope in the South Pacific?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Guy Finny
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The South ◽  
Fish Stocks ◽  
Illegal Fishing ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Management Organisation ◽  
Regional Fisheries Management

<p>Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs) play a key role in promoting the sustainable management of high seas fisheries. However, many RFMOs are not succeeding in this task. Whilst overexploited fish stocks can be blamed on illegal fishing and on States reluctant to implement robust conservation and management decisions, fault can also be found in the design of RFMO decision-making processes, specifically the use of consensus-based decision-making and objection procedures. This paper evaluates whether a new RFMO, the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation, and its ‘cutting edge’ decision-making procedure, can act as a model for more effective RFMO decision-making.</p>

Implementing Existing Tools: Turning Words Into Actions – Decision-Making Processes of Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs)

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted McDorman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Migratory Fish ◽  
Management Decisions ◽  
Fish Stocks ◽  
Management Measures ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Regional Fisheries Management

AbstractThis paper deals with decision-making processes within those regional fisheries management organisations (RFMOs) with the capacity to adopt management measures respecting either straddling or highly migratory fish stocks. The perception is that the decisions emanating from RFMOs are not achieving the goal of sustainable management of the fish stocks. Concerns raised in this regard are the perceived: non-adherence of RFMO decisions to science; lack of timeliness in making decisions; ability of RFMO members to avoid certain decisions; and adoption of management decisions that are not sufficiently rigorous. This contribution does not seek to evaluate the validity of the perception, rather it explores the manner in which RFMO conventions (the constitutive texts of RFMOs) deal with the decision-making process by looking at the trends within RFMOs, the challenges that exist and suggests ways to meet the challenges.

scholarly journals Participation in decision-making processes of community development agents: a study from Peru

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catalina Quiroz-Niño ◽  
Francisco J Blanco-Encomienda
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Participatory Process ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Action Taking ◽  
Development Agents ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies

Abstract This article argues that although Civil Social Organizations aspire towards a culture of participatory process-driven governance and management, the reality seems far from this aspiration. A culture of participatory processes is understood in this study as working and decisional engagement practices which are part of internal decision-making and action-taking processes from Community Development Agents (CDAs). This brings an ethical dilemma, as these organizations claim to operate upon principles of participation, solidarity, democracy, social justice, human dignity and decent work. Through this study, 506 Peruvian CDAs offered their own analyses about the factors that foster and/or inhibit their participation in specific organizational managerial and professional developmental areas, such as: systemic planning, organization, sustainable management and empowerment. A combination of quantitative and qualitative methodologies was used to gain a comprehensive understanding of the field of study. Dialogical focus groups were applied, by which CDAs themselves identified and deconstructed the inhibiting and facilitating factors. The study echoes CDAs’ aspiration to engage meaningfully with decision-making and action-taking processes as well as creating the participatory mechanisms and processes themselves. In order to do this, CDAs demand an ethical and democratic competence-based training, to empower them to democratize their organizational structures and to counterbalance their daily power relations and dynamics.

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