Fostering Consensus in Collaborative Fisheries Management: Case studies to inform implementation of the Fisheries Resources Reconciliation Agreement (FRRA)

This report arose out of a need to support and guide collaborative decision-making to implement the Fisheries Resources Reconciliation Agreement (FRRA). A key challenge for implementing the FRRA is that no formal process has been built yet to enable consensus-based decision-making and dispute resolution, leaving actors within the process to learn by doing. This research aims to address this gap by examining eight case studies of Nation-Crown collaborative governance in fisheries management in Canada, to provide guidance to those within the collaborative governance process. Invited and guided by the Senior Working Group of the FRRA, through interviews with key informants from both the Nation and Crown sides of each case, this research identified good practices as well as challenges from these case studies to inform the consensus-building processes for the FRRA. The ultimate goal of this work is to inform those participating in collaborative processes how to better enable joint decision-making by working together and removing barriers.