Financial compensation

A combination of public and private funds helps to partially compensate fishermen for their participation in, e.g. biological monitoring activities or general assemblies.

  • Budget covers essential expenses so fishermen can participate in different activities.
  • Fish refuges are resemble a bank saving mechanism that will ensure the fishing activity itself for future generations.
  • Fish refuges also benefit the fisheries in the mid-term due to biomass spill-over effect.
  • Willingness of fishermen to participate and lead efforts.
  • Organizations have the will and capacity to share trainings to members of the alliance.
  • Communication: appropriate language to create common understanding.

Having leadership and ownership of the fishermen in the Alliance strengthens and helps the initiative. The institutional actors, academics and civil society organizations support collective action based on community empowerment in a way they did not do before, because they respect one basic premise: if the fishermen do not agree to and support the actions, the implementation would not be possible. This approach additionally allows for a more direct communication, an implementation of basic principles of collaboration and a growing trust between the participants.