 | FAO FISHERIES TECHNICAL PAPER 494/2 Guidelines for designing data collection and sharing systems for co-managed fisheries
Part 2: Technical guidelines by
Ashley S. Halls
Aquae Sulis Ltd
Bath, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Robert I. Arthur
MRAG Ltd
London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Devin Bartley
FAO Inland Water Resources and Aquaculture Service
Rome, Italy
Malene Felsing
Environment Waikato Hamilton East, New Zealand
Richard Grainger
FAO Fishery Information, Data and Statistics Unit
Rome, Italy
Wolf Hartmann
Mekong River Commission Secretariat
Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic
Dirk Lamberts
MRAG Ltd
London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
John Purvis
Lake Victoria Fisheries Organisation
Jinja, Uganda
Parvin Sultana
Middlesex University
Enfield, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Paul Thompson
Middlesex University
Enfield, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Suzannah Walmsley
MRAG Ltd
London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Preparation of this document
Abstract
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
1.1 The need for guidelines
1.2 Aim and scope of the guidelines
1.3 Structure and use of Part 2: Technical guidelines
2. The information needs of co-managers
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The management process
2.3 The co-management process
2.3.1 Who does what?
2.4 The four categories of information
3. What to collect and share
3.1 Introduction
3.1.1 Indicators and explanatory variables
3.1.2 Other factors influencing the choice of indicators and data variables
3.2 Category 1-Data for formulating and evaluating policy and development plans
3.2.1 Data for national policy and development planning
3.2.2 Data to evaluate co-management policy performance
3.2.3 Data requirements for development and poverty reduction evaluation
3.2.4 Data to meet management and reporting obligations
3.2.5 Data requirements in support of memberships to regional
management bodies
3.3 Category 2 -Data to formulate and coordinate local management plans
3.3.1 Resource and environment
3.3.2 Fishery
3.3.3 Fishers and other stakeholders
3.3.4 Management roles and responsibilities
3.3.5 Management plan objectives and current status
3.3.6 Management strategy
3.3.7 Performance evaluation criteria and decision-making arrangements
3.3.8 External arrangements, markets and vulnerability context
3.3.9 Results of any previous management plan evaluations
3.3.10 Data to coordinate local plans
3.3.11 Other information
3.4 Category 3 -Data to implement local plans
3.4.1 Data for enforcing local rules and regulations
3.4.2 Data for resolving conflict
3.5 Category 4 -Data to evaluate and improve local management plans
3.5.1 Data to monitor the performance of the management plan
3.5.2 Data to explain the performance of the management plan
3.5.3 Linking performance and explanatory variables -empirical models
3.5.4 Passive adaptive management use among fishery or unit comparisons
3.5.5 Active adaptive management
3.5.6 Analytical models
3.5.7 Other Bayesian approaches for evaluating local management plans
3.5.8 Evaluating co-management policy
4. Data sources and methods
4.1 Data sources
4.2 Data collection methods
4.3 Participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E)
4.3.1 Participation in practice
4.3.2 Additional sources of information
4.4 Complete enumeration or sampling?
4.4.1 Stratification
4.5 Factors influencing the choice of sources and methods
4.6 Selecting sources and tools
4.6.1 Recommendations from the Udon Thani Expert Consultation
4.6.2 Fish disposition pathway diagrams
5. Co-designing the data collection and sharing system
5.1 Meeting information needs
5.2 An eight-stage participatory design process
5.2.1 Stage 1 - Identify the main stakeholders, their interest and capacity
5.2.2 Stage 2 - Formulate, formalize or review local management plans
5.2.3 Stage 3 - Identify common data needs including specification
5.2.4 Stage 4 - Review existing data and identify shortfalls
5.2.5 Stage 5 - Agree data collection and sharing strategy
5.2.6 Stage 6 - Identify or develop data and information sharing system
5.2.7 Stage 7 - Design data recording and management systems
5.2.8 Stage 8 - Implement, evaluate and refine
References
Glossary
Annex 1 Standard fishing effort measures
Annex 2 Examples of existing and planned data and information sharing networks
Figures
1. The structure of the guidelines
2. The five main activities that form the management process
3. The co-management spectrum
4. The use of the four main categories of information in the context of co-management illustrating opportunities and benefits of information sharing
5. CPUE plotted as a function of time
6. Example of an empirical model describing the relationship between yield and stocking density
7. An example of a Bayesian network model
8. CPUA vs. fisher density for 36 floodplain rivers in Africa; Asia; and Latin America
9. Institutional analysis and design framework
10. Factors influencing the choice of data sources and data collection methods
11. Examples of fish disposition pathway diagrams for conch and lobster
and finfish in the Turks and Caicos Islands
12. Common data needs of co-managers
13. A proposed eight-stage process for designing data collection and sharing
systems for co-managed fisheries
14. The sustainable livelihoods framework
15. Thirteen stages and three phases of the PAPD process
16. Example of a thematic map illustrating the location of important landing
sites and numbers of fishing vessels by category in Antigua, Caribbean
17. Illustration of the potential information flows that might be created
18. Example of a communications map
19. Data collection activities and actors on Lake George, Uganda
20. Fisheries information flow and use in planning for Lake George, Uganda
21. The information sharing network developed by stakeholders at Sunamganj, Bangladesh using a draft version of these guidelines
22. The information sharing system developed by co-managers of the
Huay Luang reservoir using a draft version of these guidelines