Latin-American rights-based fisheries targeting sedentary resources

ORENSANZ, J.M.; CINTI, A.; PARMA, A.M.; BUROTTO, L.; ESPINOSA-GUERRERO, L.; SOSA-CORDERO, E.; SEPÚLVEDA, C.; TOTAL-GRANDA, V.

FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Papers

FAO

Lugar: Roma; Año: 2013 vol. 582 p. 1 - 70

2070-7010

This study reports on a diversity of cases of rights-based benthic fisheries from Latin America. For benthic fisheries, Part I of this technical paper documents management experiences including: (i) limited entry or moratoria combined with a TAC in the Galápagos Islands sea cucumber fishery, and in the sea urchin and Juliana clam fisheries of Chile; (ii) catch shares in the diving fisheries for scallops from San José Gulf (Argentina) and for the loco snail in Chile (a system now defunct), and the Patagonian scallop industrial fishery (Argentina); (iii) Territorial use privileges based on sea bed tracts in Chilean TURFs ("AMERBs"), concessions from central Baja California (México), "predios" of sustainable use in Mexico, and concessions for seaweed extraction in Argentine Patagonia; (iv) Individual use privileges over fishing "campos" in spiny lobster concessions of Punta Allen (Mexico), "marcas" in the Juan Fernández lobster fishery, and "parcelas" in Chilean algal harvests, and (v) Territorial communal rights (traditional and indigenous users) in the Seri Indian fishery of Mexico, Brazilian RESEXs, and the piangua fishery of Colombia?s Afro-American communities.