Profile: Trifina Josephat: First among equals: Trifina Josephat manages the Malehe landing site in Kyamalange, Tanzania

Mwaipopo, Rosemarie N. (2011) Profile: Trifina Josephat: First among equals: Trifina Josephat manages the Malehe landing site in Kyamalange, Tanzania. Yemaya (37). p. 3. ISSN 0973-1156

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Abstract

A mother of five, 42-year old Trifina Josephat is both an entrepreneur and a community leader. Although in her village, Kyamalange, in Tanzania’s Kagera region, the role of women in fi sheries is restricted to selling cooked food to fishers and fish traders along the beach, Trifi na today owns a fi shing vessel and manages a crew of four fi shermen. Trifi na is the Treasurer of the Beach Management Unit (BMU) in charge of managing the Malehe Landing Site in Kyamalange. A BMU is a communitybased organization that is responsible for the management of local fish landing sites.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.YEM324
Keywords:	Yemaya, ICSF, Personalities, Women, Tanzania, Fish Landing Centres, Bench Management Units (BMU), Nile Perch, Community Based Management, Small-scale Fisheries
Subjects:	Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Depositing User:	Chitti Babu ICSF
Date Deposited:	27 Sep 2021 12:48
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2022 05:33
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/715

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