Abstract

The anchored FADs, Fish Aggregating Devices, which are located around 10-20 miles from shore in Caribbean water and fishers operate for day trip, tend to create a problem of conflict, e.g. congestion of users in Commonwealth of Dominica FADs, owners did not want other fishers to operate around the FADs, furthermore they fought on the land when they returned from sea. FADs user group and government have been trying to reduce the conflict by the introduction of fishery co-management in Dominica. A typically defined as a partnership arrangement between government and the local community of resource users (FAO). For instance, six eastern Caribbean Courtiers have practiced FADs Co-management by Caribbean Fisheries Co-management Project (CARIFICO) during 2013 to 2018. During the project, some of the key issue are highlighted, that is the declaration of its ownership and supporting program for FADs sustainability financially. Consequently, in other words, FADs fisher group and government share the responsibility of managing the FADs by informal fisher’s rules and/or formal government’s regulations, as well as created its financial mechanisms. In this poster, assuming that successful co-management level are categorized by the conflict and financial mechanism levels, the six countries case are examined. However, each country are at different stages after the four projects and still progressing, the result could extend to further discussion and improvement of the project, and share in the Gulf and Caribbean Region.

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