This document is a study carried out by the FAO executed DFID-funded Sustainable Fisheries Livelihoods Programme (SFLP) [GCP/INT/735/UK] and the FAO Fisheries Department Medium Term Programme “Promotion of Coastal Fisheries Management” [MTP 234 A4]. The study aims to derive and disseminate lessons learnt on fisher participation in fisheries management as well as ways of supporting livelihoods through responsible fisheries management.
The basis for this study was provided by four SFLP country reports with case studies on fisher participation in Monitoring Control and Surveillance. Field work for those case studies was carried out in pairs by consultants and staff members from the national fisheries administrations between August 2000 and March 2001: M.O. Mohamed Vall and N.M. Moctar Nech in Mauritania; A. Sall and C.M. Diallo in Senegal; M.M. Diallo and A. Bah in Guinea; and E. Aryee and Q.Q. Ahene-Amanquanor in Ghana. Further field data came from additional field visits and interviews undertaken by Philippe Cacaud, consultant, and myself (from the Medium Term Programme “Promotion of Coastal Fisheries Management”) in June and July of 2001. The analysis and writing of the document took place at FAO in Rome, Italy.
