management institutions are unable to address compliance while low skills and technological development in the region which may otherwise permit improve public attitudes towards conservation is inadequate these social aspects are discussed in the rest of this chapter there are nevertheless several examples of coastal communities in the region who have upheld resource use regulations informed by their sense of attachment to a resource base cinner and aswani in some fisherfolk describe their rights to marine commons as akin to communal ownership derived from their ancestors or a spiritual being