Donda, Steve J. (2006) Fisheries co-management as a strategy for contribution to enhanced livelihoods and food security. Digital Library of the Commons, Indiana.
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This paper documents a changing CPR management institution and the reactions of the local fishing society to those changes.The paper This paper presents results of field research work in Lake Chiuta where co-management policy and strategies developed by the Department of Fisheries with consultation of the user community has yielded extra results. Lake Chiuta, has been under the control of local people with de-facto territorial user rights until of late, when co-management was introduced in the mid 1990s. Following this introduction, the Chiuta fishing communities have claimed improved livelihood and enhanced food security as being due to the introduction of co-management in the area. These results are based on the premise that the Chiuta community have a comprehensive understanding of their fishery resource, such that outsiders are not allowed to introduce fishing gears that will disturb the ecological balance of the fishery resource. In this case beach seine nets are not allowed in the lake. Co-management was therefore introduced in the lake to provide legal basis for the exclusion of beach seine net fishers. The policy implication from this study is that co-management should not only be viewed as a conservation measure but also as development strategy.
| Item Type: | Documents |
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| Class Number: | 500.FIS112 |
| Keywords: | Fisheries Management, Malawi, Livelihood, Food Security, Co-management, Participatory Management, Conservation, Fishing Communities, Department of Fisheries, Resources Management, Policy, Traditional Management Systems, Fishing Regulations, Fishing Gear, Ban, Community Development, Inland Fisheries |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Varsha V icsf |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Mar 2022 05:56 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2022 05:56 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/10058 |
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