Fisheries management successes are overshadowed by unintended consequences in a neighboring area

What is it about?

This paper explores the success of small scale fisheries management in the Northern Choco, Colombia, in terms of improving catch rates and conservation of important nearshore habitat and biodiversity. In doing so it highlights what has worked really well for some fishing communities, but then goes on to suggest that the management of these fisheries has had detrimental effects on neighboring areas because it has pushed destructive fishing fleets into their fishing grounds.

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Why is it important?

This study is important in highlighting that we should consider the effects of management on broad scales, and be careful not to be blinkered in our consideration of fisheries management planning and gauging successes.