Download or read book Participation in Fisheries Governance written by Tim S. Gray and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-06-30 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central message of the book is that stakeholder participation in the governance of fisheries is beneficial, but confers responsibilities as well as rights: all stakeholders have a public duty to act as stewards of the marine environment. With chapters by leading scholars and participants in fisheries governance, this book recounts contemporary techniques of public participation, and develops a new concept of environmental stewardship as a form of fisheries governance.