Abstract
Small-scale fisheries are not a fixed scale in terms of governance and governability. While they may be small by their individual size, small-scale fisheries are strongly interconnected to higher levels of governance. This interconnectedness makes them vulnerable to external influences and shocks, which in turn affect their governability. This chapter calls for an analysis of scales beyond the local community in order to grasp all the complexity, diversity and dynamics of interactions at multiple levels. As an illustration, the case of small-scale fisheries in the San Andrés archipelago on the Caribbean coast of Colombia will be looked at. Due to the International Court of Justice decision over boundary dispute between Colombia and Nicaragua in 2012, small-scale fishers in this area lost access to their traditional fishing ground. The chapter examines consequences of this decision using the governability assessment framework and provides lessons about small-scale fisheries governance when spatial scale is a critical issue.
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Acknowledgments
I would like to express my gratitude to Professor Svein Jentoft and Professor Ratana Chuenpagdee for giving me the opportunity to write a chapter about this archipelago. I would like to thank the International Fisheries Management master’s program and the Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics of the UiT Arctic University of Norway (Tromsø, Norway) for partially funding this master’s thesis research. Also thanks are due to two anonymous reviewers for their wise and very helpful comments. I would also like to offer my special thanks to June Marie Mow who made this journey to the archipelago so fascinating. Thanks to all interviewees for their time and shared knowledge. And last but not least, this research would not have been possible without fishers’ participation: thank you for your time and generosity.
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Randin, O. (2015). Small-Scale Fishers, Changing Borders: The Case of San Andrés Archipelago (Colombia) and the International Court of Justice. In: Jentoft, S., Chuenpagdee, R. (eds) Interactive Governance for Small-Scale Fisheries. MARE Publication Series, vol 13. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17034-3_26
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