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Introduction: attaining better fisheries management through co-management -- prospects, problems and propositions Evelyn Pinkerton PART ONE Indian--state co-management in the US Pacific Northwest Treaty Indian tribes and Washington State: the evolution of tribal fisheries management in the US Pacific Northwest Fay G. Cohen Getting to co-management: social learning in the redesign of fisheries management Norman Dale Negotiating salmon management on the Klamanth River Danny Jordan PART TWO Non-indigenous commercial fishermen creating regional and local co-management Co-management or co-optation?: the ambiguities of lobster fishery management in Southwest Nova Scotia John F. Kearney Co-management of a clam revitalization project: the New Jersey "Spawner Sanctuary" program Bonnie J. McCay Alaska's regional aquaculture associations co-management of salmon in southern southeast Alaska Donald F. Amend PART THREE Creative institutional response: evolving aboriginal management regimes under new state regulation The Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission: successful co-management under extreme conditions Milton M. R. Freeman Prospects for co-management of marine animals in Alaska Steve J. Langdon The development of state/tribal co-management of Wisconsin fisheries Thomas R. Busiahn PART FOUR Provisions in comprehensive claims for Native self-management Co-management and the James Bay Agreement Fikret Berkes Co-management provisions of the Inuvialuit Final Agreement Nancy C. Doubleday PART FIVE BC Native fishermen: tradition and innovation The struggle to integrate traditional Indian systems and state management in the salmon fisheries of the Skeena River, British Columbia Mike Morrell The fisheries co-management initiative in Haida Gwaii Miles Richardson & Bill Green Strategies and possibilities for Indian leadership in co-management initiatives in British Columbia J. R. MacLeod The future of fisheries co-management: a multi-disciplinary assessment R. Bruce Rettig, Fikret Berkes & Evelyn Pinkerton

Ecosystem stewardship is an action-oriented framework intended to foster social-ecological sustainability of a rapidly changing planet. Recent developments identify three strategies that make optimal use of current understanding in an environment of inevitable uncertainty and abrupt change: reducing the magnitude of, and exposure and sensitivity to, known stresses; focusing on proactive policies that shape change; and avoiding or escaping unsustainable social-ecological traps. All social-ecological systems are vulnerable to recent and projected changes but have sources of adaptive capacity and resilience that can sustain ecosystem services and human well-being through active ecosystem stewardship.

"In 1991, a model forest practices act that would radically transform methods of forest management in British Columbia was proposed by a coalition of First Nations, trade unions, environmentalists and small businesses. If implemented, the Tin Wis Forest Stewardship Act would see the province of British Columbia give a prominent forest management role to bioregional boards. The proposed legislation followed two decades of activism in the community forestry movement in BC and represented an attempt to institute a co-management agreement between the provincial government and the communities, aboriginal people and other stakeholders most affected by forestry practices in the long run. "The effort to write and raise support tor the Forest Stewardship Act provides an important opportunity to consider new middle-range theoretical propositions predicting the conditions under which co-management agreements successfully arise and persist. Co-management of Crown or state-owned forests in particular is an ideal vehicle for exploring co-management because of the numerous and tightly entwined resources involved in a forest ecosystem: fisheries, wildlife and water all 'flow through' the forest and have complex symbiotic relationships which are affected by changes to the forest."