摘要：Despite its
relatively modest importance, and the current difficulties faced by the
government in implementing liberalization in the rest of the country, the
Egyptian authority decided to embark on a reform of the Lake Nasser fishery in
the early 2000s. The objective of this article is to analyse the evolution of
this reform from a political economy perspective. The paper looks
retrospectively at the general context of the reform, describes the different
institutional and economic changes that have resulted from its realization,
identifies how the distribution of power between the different actors has
altered the course of its implementation, and finally assesses the outcomes of
the reform. The analysis shows that, while some major institutional changes have
taken place, those changes have had little to do with a 'liberalization' as
conventionally understood in neo-classical literature. Instead, the new status
quo turns out to be one where the central government and its different
parastatal agencies have managed to maintain their existing advantages. The
failure to reform more thoroughly the system also led fishers and fish traders
to engage in a large-scale black market activity in which a substantial amount
of fish is smuggled through unofficial trade channels.
关键词：Small-scale fisheries, governance, political economy, reform, Africa, Egypt
