This task involves describing the process and activities taken in the development and implementation of the fisheries co-management system. It describes “how did we go about it?”. A generic model or process of the implementation of fisheries co-management can be viewed as having three phases:

Within each of the three phases there are a number of activities that can be undertaken. The identification and description of the various activities of the fisheries co-management implementation process allows for an understanding of which activities functioned well or not. 

The list of activities are meant to help identify the types of activities that may be undertaken during the three phases of fisheries co-management implementation. The list is not meant to be inclusive as other additional activities may have been undertaken and should be added to the description. For the fisheries co-management system under evaluation, the activities of the three phases of co-management implementation (pre-implementation, implementation and post-implementation) should be identified and briefly described in terms of when the activity was undertaken, who lead it and what was done.  

As with the description of the context of the fisheries co-management system in Task 2.1, the description of the fisheries co-management system implementation process activities is closely linked to the good practices and will be used for the analysis of good practices. The description of the process activities will also be used in understanding linkages and relationships between and among the elements of the fisheries co-management system - context, process and patterns of interaction - and outcomes.