Activities

Members of FISHGOVNET get together in various constellations at workshops, conferences and meetings all around the world. Often these gatherings involve the presentation and discussion of papers, or the planning of new projects. The biennial MARE People and the Sea Conference (next to be held in July 2011) is the regular rendez-vous site.

Following the publication of Fish for Life (2005) and Interactive governance for fisheries: a guide for practice (2005), the network decided on a new collective enterprise – the elaboration of the concept ‘governability’. Governability – defined as the propensity for successful governance -  emerged in the last chapters of Fish for Life. The network felt that this concept, which links theory with practice and raises interesting questions with regard to assessment, could be the cornerstone of a new set of joint activities with regard to fisheries and aquaculture.. The realization of a special issue of the journal Transdisciplinary Environmental Studies (Volume 7.1, 2008) on governability and interactive governance was the first step. Currently the network is preparing a full-fledged monograph on the topic. It will hopefully be published in 2010. A special issue for the journal Fish and Fisheries is also in the making (expected March 2010).