Managing the conflict alone

A missed opportunity with missing stakeholders – One of several fashionable concepts that affects fisheries management and the fishing industry in many countries is integrated coastal zone management (ICZM). Born as a tool to prepare nations for a possible rise in the level of the sea, it is now being applied by governments to harmonise, with their own policies, the often-conflicting interests of the various stakeholders.

A missed opportunity with missing stakeholders - One of several fashionable concepts that affects fisheries management and the fishing industry in many countries is integrated coastal zone management (ICZM). Born as a tool to prepare nations for a possible rise in the level of the sea, it is now being applied by governments to harmonise, with their own policies, the often-conflicting interests of the various stakeholders.