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Institutional innovations in fisheries co-management
Type: Report
The chapter discusses the SELP (Sustainable Fisheries Livelihoods Programme)'s co-management experiences-both in inland water areas in West Africa and on the Atlantic coast, and underlies the importances of addessing social ...
Traditional management systems, poverty and change in the arid zone fisheries of northern Nigeria
Type: Journal Article
This paper, basd on fieldwork results, explores traditional mangement systems (TMS) in the arid zone fisheries of north-eastern Nigeria with particular reference to their impact on rural poverty. The first section provides ...
Key issues in coastal fisheries South and Southeast Asia, outcomes of a regional initiative
Type: Journal Article
Asia is an important region in terms of fish trade supplying nearly 60% of global fish production. The region’s coastal fisheries play a critical role in ensuring food security and providing livelihoods, particularly for ...
Embedding co-management: community-based fisheries resource management regime in Lake Victoria, Tanzania
Type: Conference Paper
This paper discusses fisheries management reforms through involving local level institutions (LLFI). It is based on studies which were undertaken on Tanzania’s Lake Victoria fishery where LLFIs were established through the ...
Sunamganj community based resource management project (SCBRMP): an approach to sustainable beel fisheries management
Type: Conference Paper
Sunamganj is a land dominated by floodplains with seasonally flooded tectonic depressions known locally as haors and smaller water bodies known as beels. People’s livelihoods and culture are largely dominated by the haor ...
Colaboración para la creación de resiliencia: una guía para profesionales
Type: Manual
Colaborating for Resilience tiene como objetivo catalizar el cambio institucional a fin de abordar desafíos comunes en la gestión de los recursos naturales. En este manual se presenta un método para organizar el diálogo,emprender ...
Testing resilience thinking in a poverty context: experience from the Niger River basin
Type: Journal Article
Resilience thinking is an important addition to the range of frameworks and approaches that can be used to understand and manage complex social–ecological systems like small-scale fisheries. However, it is yet to lead to ...
Fish, fishing and livelihoods : community based organisations as focus for local development
Type: Brochure
The central tenet to Community Based Fisheries Management (CBFM) is that users dependent on a common resource, in this case fishers and other households depending on wild fish to catch, will harvest that resource in a ...
Fisheries rehabilitation in post-tsunami Aceh: Status and needs from participatory appraisals
Type: Journal Article
The widespread and long-term nature of the tsunami damage in Aceh province, Indonesia has threatened the continued use of coastal and fisheries resources. This article describes the application of the Rapid Appraisal of ...
Community based fisheries management : livelihoods impact
Type: Brief
The Community Based Fisheries Management Project has been implemented since 1995 by the Department of Fisheries (DoF) with the assistance of the WorldFish Center. It has worked in a range of water bodies across Bangladesh, ...