Costa Rica is supporting Marine Areas of Responsible Fishing (AMPRs) to enable small-scale fishing communities to apply for exclusive harvesting and management rights within spatially delimited areas under a co-management policy framework.
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Chavez Carrillo, I. I., Partelow, S., Madrigal-Ballestero, R., Schlüter, A., & Gutierrez-Montes, I. (2019). Do responsible fishing areas work? Comparing collective action challenges in three small-scale fisheries in Costa Rica. International Journal of the Commons, 13(1), 705. https://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.923