Reimagining large-scale open-water fisheries governance through adaptive comanagement in hilsa shad sanctuaries
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Almost a half million fishers in Bangladesh are predominantly reliant on the hilsa shad (Tenualosa ilisha) fishery in the Meghna River and estuarine ecosystem. This paper adopts a broadened concept of social-ecological traps to frame the complex dynamics that emerge from social and ecological interactions in this highly natural resource-dependent social-ecological system (SES). We analyze how endogenous self-reinforcing processes in the system and poor initial conditions, particularly debt and lack of livelihood options outside fisheries, keep fishing households in poverty. We identify a policy decision in favor of incentive-based fisheries management as a critical juncture that influenced a trajectory of recovery in hilsa shad stocks in this complex adaptive system.
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Ecology and Society, 23(1):26 [open access]
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A.B.M. Haque https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5334-5630
Nahiduzzaman Md https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5152-992X
Mohammad Rahman https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4090-7339
Nahiduzzaman Md https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5152-992X
Mohammad Rahman https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4090-7339
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2018
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ISI indexed
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The Resilience Alliance