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Walking the Talk of the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines in Jamaica

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Conventional rights based regimes designed to streamline small-scale fisheries governance have slowly moved towards embedding policy considerations that aim to bridge fishing rights and human rights (including social and economic rights). This chapter discusses the extent to which the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) can take root within the Commonwealth Caribbean state of Jamaica. Particularly, this chapter explores to what extent Jamaica’s enabling environment facilitates the implementation of Section 10(7) of the SSF Guidelines: Policy Coherence, Institutional Coordination and Collaboration. In order to implement the current SSF Guidelines effectively, they should be in tune with national and local specificities and nuances.

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  1. Norwegian College of Fishery Science, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

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  2. Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

    Ratana Chuenpagdee

  3. Development and Knowledge Sociology Working Group, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research – ZMT, Bremen, Germany

    María José Barragán-Paladines

  4. Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy

    Nicole Franz

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Soares, L.K. (2017). Walking the Talk of the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines in Jamaica. In: Jentoft, S., Chuenpagdee, R., Barragán-Paladines, M., Franz, N. (eds) The Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines. MARE Publication Series, vol 14. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55074-9_7

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