Bed-fellows or fellow-travellers?:the relationship between ecosystem-based management and stakeholder participation in marine fisheries

The relationship between ecosystem-based management of marine fisheries and stakeholder participation, is often taken for granted, but is actually very complicated. The literature reveals five possible interpretations of this relationship: that they are 1) logically linked; 2) ethically linked; 3) instrumentally linked; 4) complementarily linked; and 5) antagonistically linked. We examine these four formulations in the light of recent research on interactions between fisheries and their environment. We conclude that the ‘Stakeholder participation–Ecosystem-based management’ relationship manifests itself as predominantly instrumental in character. Within this mutually beneficial, but uneven, relationship, ecosystem-based management benefits particularly from stakeholder participation in terms of knowledge, practical roles played by stakeholders and added systemic legitimacy.

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