Conservation Incentives and Collective Choices in Cooperative Fisheries

Cooperatives are increasingly proposed as solutions for sustainable fisheries management. There is little empirical evidence comparing the actions of cooperative fisheries across a diverse set of environments. This study applies a standardized survey method to collect data from a set of cooperatively managed fisheries from around the globe, documenting their social, economic, and ecological settings as well as the cooperative behaviors in which they engage and the role they play in conservation.