The Co-Management of Lobster Fishing in Maine, USA

One page, two citations answering the below questions about: The Co-Management of Lobster Fishing in Maine, USA

a. Who owns it?

b. Who is in charge of deciding how it is used?

c. How are decisions made about how it is used?

3. How did self-governance in your case study arise? In other words, considering the recent history of the use of that particular natural resource (forests or lobsters) in that location, what occurred that spurred a change toward using self-governance to manage it?

4. Given what you have learned from your case study, what do you think are the two biggest barriers to using self-governance to manage similar natural resources in California? (For example, if you researched the forests case study, you could consider how we might use self-governance to manage CA forests for their timber; alternatively, if you researched the lobster case study, you could consider how we might use self-governance to manage CA oysters or salmon. In either case, there is no need for you to do a lot of extra research on forests, oysters, or salmon in CA – you just need to understand the basics.)

5. Given what you have learned from your case study, what do you think are the two most important ways we could overcome the barriers you wrote about in question 4, in order to create a successful system of self-governance for similar natural resources in CA?