Abstract
Since the early 1990s, aquaculture has become the most important livelihood activity in Tam Giang Lagoon, Vietnam. The aquaculture boom has reduced the available water area for mobile gear fishers, polarized different user-groups, created resource conflicts, and increased pressures on the lagoon systems. Aquaculture in the lagoon is governed by both customary and legal rights. The objective of this paper is to explore the diversity of resource use and the complexity of property rights in one of the villages located in the lagoon. The paper emphasizes the linkages between changes in commons institutions and changes in resource use and property rights. First, the political and socio-economic changes in Vietnam are examined as well as how they have influenced traditional commons institutions and lagoon resource management in the village. Second, the linkages between common institutions and the diversity of property rights are analyzed. Particular attention is given to the analysis of different types of resource use associated with "bundle of rights" and the diversity of property rights regimes in the village.
Highlights
People in the Tam Giang Lagoon area say, “điền tư ngư chung” – “farm land is private and water area is open”
The objective of this paper is to explore the diversity of resource use and the complexity of property rights in one of the villages located in the lagoon
The paper emphasizes the linkages between changes in commons institutions and changes in resource use and property rights
Summary
People in the Tam Giang Lagoon area say, “điền tư ngư chung” – “farm land is private and water area is open”. Lagoon commons are shared spaces, and issues of property rights have arisen since the feudal times. The policy reform in 1986 toward a market economy and the development of aquaculture in the early 1990s have, resulted in de facto privatization, excluding poorer fishers from most of the fishing area, creating resource conflicts, and increasing pressures on lagoon systems. The objective of this paper is to explore the diversity of resource use and the complexity of property rights in the lagoon. The emphasis is on the linkages between changes in commons institutions and changes in resource use and property rights
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