The central element of co-management is the empowerment of the community of local resource users by enabling them to participate, control and influence institutional decisions affecting their lives. Empowerment through co-management means greater involvement and greater participation of fisher communities and it seeks to empower the weak and less privileged co-management based institutions to allow them to freely participate in and collaborate on management. Common property theorists have argued that increasing governance and democracy step up to empower the poor fisher communities rather than strengthen them in power. Empowerment is a mechanism by which community and organizations gain mastery over their affairs. On the other hand, empowerment is a part of way forward to be challenged and changed institutional arrangement to improve fishers' access and management to their resources. With regard to fishery co-management defined empowerment as a mechanism to give participants a change to influence their own future within the fishing communities. On the other hand, organization practicing empowerment can handle conflict constructively.