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From user-groups to stakeholders? The public interest in fisheries management

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  • Mikalsen, Knut H.
  • Jentoft, Svein

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Fisheries management has long been characterised by strong user-group involvement, created to enhance the legitimacy and proficiency of decisions. Due to perennial problems of overfishing and resource depletion, the privileged position of users are increasingly being challenged, and there have been calls for more inclusive and democratic institutions. Fish, it is argued, is a public resource and should be managed through institutional arrangements that take the public interest into account. Taking the demands for more inclusive and transparent management institutions as our starting point, the article addresses some of the issues emanating from a stakeholder approach to fisheries management. Against the backdrop of stakeholder theory, as it has been developed in the literature on business management, we attempt to identify--and classify--those with a legitimate stake in the fisheries. We also address some of the problems and complexities of stakeholder management, and conclude with a discussion of some of the central issues and challenges pertaining to the creation of more inclusive and transparent institutions in fisheries management.

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  • Mikalsen, Knut H. & Jentoft, Svein, 2001. "From user-groups to stakeholders? The public interest in fisheries management," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 25(4), pages 281-292, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:marpol:v:25:y:2001:i:4:p:281-292
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