Nair, Navya Vikraman (2022) Water quality and small-scale fisheries: A vital facet to understand vulnerability and the transition to viability. p. 34.
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Small-scale fisheries (SSFs) have a strong role in sustaining millions of livelihoods worldwide, while contributing to global food security and securing income. However, SSF communities are being marginalized, leading to their vulnerability by the cumulative impacts from natural factors (such as cyclones, hydrological changes) and anthropogenic pressures (such as varied fishing techniques and overfishing). This results in food insecurity, occupational displacement, and outmigration. Rising pressures from natural and human-induced activities result in biodiversity loss, destruction of fish habitats and of communities at different biotic scales. These drivers contribute to the increasing vulnerability of SSF communities around the globe. It is necessary to understand the nature of vulnerability and possible ways to achieve viability. This paper focuses on the role of hydrological changes (water quality) as a crucial driver of multiple vulnerabilities in SSF. While there is considerable research on hydrological processes, fish decline, and marginalization of SSF communities, the connections between water quality and SSF vulnerabilities has remained largely unaddressed. Using the Chilika Lagoon in the East Coast of India as a case study, this paper aims to explore how variations in water quality contribute to SSF vulnerabilities and responses by SSF communities to achieve viability. First, this paper outlines the key water quality parameters in the context of SSF. Second, it examines how changes in water quality influences the levels of vulnerabilities. Third, it discusses the responses made by Chilika SSF communities to overcome vulnerabilities and move towards viability. A comparative mixed method approach is used to critically analyze a large body of literature on water quality and on vulnerabilities faced by SSF communities, with the goal of better understanding the relevance for water quality in improving viability of SSF.
| Item Type: | Articles |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Small-scale Fisheries, Fishing Communities, Livelihoods, Food Security, Chilika Lagoon, Vulnerabilities, Water Quality, Sustainable Development Goals, Sustainable Fisheries, Coastal Communities |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Kokila ICSF Krish |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jun 2025 09:31 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Jun 2025 09:31 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/21963 |
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