1st Edition

From Seascapes of Extinction to Seascapes of Confidence Territorial Use Rights in Fisheries in Chile: ElQuisco and Puerto Oscuro

By Gloria L. Gallardo Fernandez Copyright 2008

    From Seascapes of extinction to seascapes of confidence. Territorial Use Rights in Fisheries in Chile: El Quisco and Puerto Oscuro by Gloria Gallardo Fernandés is an important contribution to our understanding of the multifaceted challenges underlying sustainable solutions to ecological fisheries, the book describes how, in Chile, indiscriminate harvest of the edible shellfish Concholepas concholepas (false abalone or Loco), has been threatening not only the living of small-scale artisan fishers but also the ecosystem. In an attempt to strengthen the fishers’ livelihoods and at the same time recuperate the fish, the Chilean government introduced the regulatory measure: Management and Exploitation Areas for Benthic Resources (MEABRs), locally known as Management Areas (MAs) and internationally as Territorial Use Rights in Fisheries (TURFs).

    Part I. Fisheries: Between the Global and the Local

    Chapter 1: The study setting

    Chapter 2: Fishing management and property rights: a conceptual framework

    Part II. Chilean Fisheries and the Management and Exploitation Areas for Benthic Resources

    Chapter 3: Chile’s coast and fisheries legal and policy framework

    Chapter 4: Industrial and artisanal fishing landing in Chile

    Chapter 5: Loco fishery and the Management Areas

    Part III. Seascapes of Conflict, Seascapes of Confidence: The Case Studies

    Chapter 6: Puerto Oscuro: the seascape of conflict

    Chapter 7: El Quisco: The seascape of hope

    Chapter 8: From Seascape of extinction to seascape of confidence

    Biography

    Fernandez, Gloria L. Gallardo