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Africa's Inland Fisheries: The Management Challenge,9789970022939
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Africa's Inland Fisheries: The Management Challenge


Author(s): Geheb, Kim; Sarch, Marie-Therese
ISBN10:  9970022938
ISBN13:  9789970022939
Format:  Paperback
Pub. Date:  4/1/2002
Publisher(s): Lightning Source Inc

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Table of Contents
List of Figures
xiv
List of Tables
xvi
Notes on Contributors xvii
Acknowledgments xxii
Preface xxiii
Abbreviations xxiv
Introduction: Meeting the Challenge
1(8)
Kim Geheb
Marie-Therese Sarch
The case studies
4(1)
Lake Malawi
4(1)
Lakes Chilwa, Chiuta, Malombe and the Upper Shire River
4(1)
Lake Kariba
5(1)
Lake Tanganyika
5(1)
Lake Victoria
6(1)
Lake Chad
7(1)
River Gambia
7(2)
Fisheries Co-Management in Malawi: Implementation Arrangements for Lakes Malombe, Chilwa and Chiuta
9(22)
Friday J. Njaya
The concept of `co-management'
12(1)
The participatory fisheries management programme for Lake Malombe and the Upper Shire River
13(2)
The PFMP set up
15(2)
Formation of the Beach Village Committees (BVCs)
17(1)
Performance assessment of the Lake Malombe and Upper Shire River PFMP
18(1)
The Lake Chilwa participatory fisheries management programme
18(2)
The Lake Chilwa PFMP set-up
20(3)
The impact of community participation in the Lake Chilwa Recovery Programme
23(1)
The Lake Chiuta participatory fisheries management scheme
24(1)
Development of the Beach Village Committees
25(6)
Lessons from Malawi's Experience with Fisheries Co-Management Initiatives
31(18)
Mafaniso Hara
Steven Donda
Friday J. Njaya
Reasons for seeking an alternative regime
32(3)
The role of the Fisheries Department
35(1)
Struggles for power and authority
35(5)
Organisational structure, participation of vested interests and incentives for participation
40(1)
Negative effects of short term external (donor) funding
41(1)
Ineffective and ambiguous revised legislation
42(1)
The effects of prevailing socio-economic conditions
43(2)
Some thoughts on theory and practice
45(3)
Conclusion
48(1)
Conflicting Agendas in the Development and Management of Fisheries on Lake Malawi
49(25)
Edward H. Allison
Peter M. Mvula
Frank Ellis
Lake Malawi fisheries: political and economic context
50(3)
Fishing for the policy agenda: a history of management and development interventions in Malawi's fisheries
53(1)
Traditions and tea planters: Colonial policy and its legacy
53(3)
Development policies 1964-1994
56(1)
`Modernising' the fisheries
57(3)
Fishing in deep water
60(1)
State conservation policy and fisheries
61(1)
The Life-President's fish
62(2)
Political liberalisation and changing policy discourse
64(3)
Current policy -- evading hard choices in fisheries development
67(2)
Synthesis
69(5)
Contesting Inequalities in Access Rights to Lake Kariba's Kapenta Fisheries: An Analysis of the Politics of Natural Resource Management
74(15)
Kefasi Nyikahadzoi
The Kapenta Fishery's Management Licensing
76(1)
Area closures
77(1)
The allocation of fishing basins
77(2)
Kapenta fishing methods
79(1)
The colonial legacy in Zimbabwe
79(1)
Zimbabwean policies on natural resource distribution
80(2)
Scientific socialism and co-operative development
82(2)
Licence redistribution during the first ten years
84(1)
The willing seller, willing buyer principle
85(1)
The sliding scale
86(1)
Indigenisation
87(1)
Conclusion
87(2)
The Outcome of a Co-Managerial Arrangement in an Inland Fishery: The Case of Lake Kariba (Zambia)
89(18)
Isaac Malasha
Lake Kariba
90(1)
The artisanal fishermen
91(1)
Kapenta operators
92(1)
Management of the fishery
93(1)
The introduction of co-management to the Lake Kariba fishery
93(3)
The role of the Kapenta Fishermen's Association
96(1)
Access to, and control of, the islands
97(1)
Access to, and control of, fiscal revenue
97(1)
Control of immigrant fishermen
98(1)
Control of arable land
99(2)
Access to, and control of, assistance from Non-Governmental Organisations
101(1)
The effect of the co-management plans on the local people
101(1)
Access to, and control of, co-management plans
102(1)
Final outcomes
103(3)
Conclusion
106(1)
A Future Fraught: Precautionary, Participatory and Regional Outlooks for the Fisheries of Lake Tanganyika
107(35)
John-Eric Reynolds
Hannu Molsa
Ossi V. Lindqvist
Tanganyika: the setting and the stakes
108(2)
Lake Tanganyika Research Project
110(1)
Lake Tanganyika Biodiversity Project
111(1)
Basic fisheries characteristics
112(1)
Fisheries sub-sectors
113(1)
Production and trade
114(1)
Local stakeholders and communities
115(2)
Major management challenges
117(1)
Hydrobiological issues: changes in stocks and yields
118(2)
Human welfare issues
120(1)
Institutional and legal issues
121(2)
Management initiatives for fisheries futures
123(1)
`Whole ecosystem' approaches to management and the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries
123(2)
The Tanganyika Regional Framework Fisheries Management Plan (FFMP)
125(2)
FFMP Implementation: Tanganyika Regional Fisheries Programme (TREFIP)
127(4)
Exercising options for fishery futures
131(1)
The initiative option: intended yields, inherent risks
131(6)
The default option: doing nothing
137(2)
A future fraught
139(3)
On Pitfalls and Building Blocks: Towards the Management of Lake Victoria's Fisheries
142(32)
Kim Geheb
Kevin Crean
Modesta Medard
Mercy Kyangwa
Carolyne Lwenya
Paul Onyango
Lake Victoria
143(2)
Background to the regulation of Lake Victoria's fisheries
145(1)
The pitfalls
146(1)
Regulatory ambiguity
146(2)
The dichotomy between the levels of the state and community
148(1)
Endorsement by the state of local-level institutions
149(3)
Competition between the need to survive and the need to conserve the resource
152(1)
An overemphasis on managing the biological basis of the resource
153(2)
Underestimation of community capabilities with respect to their role in the management process
155(1)
The capacity to deliver an effective regulatory service
156(2)
Unrestricted access to a common fisheries resource
158(1)
The building blocks for management
158(4)
The role of Beach Committees in developing and implementing the management process
162(5)
The role of District Committees in developing and implementing the management process
167(1)
The Regional Committee
168(2)
Constraints to implementation
170(4)
Lake Victoria Fishers' Attitudes Towards Management and Co-Management
174(21)
Douglas C. Wilson
Methods
175(1)
The Lake Victoria fishery
176(1)
Causes of changes in catch size
177(3)
Perceptions of the government role in management
180(2)
Attitudes toward specific rules
182(6)
Attitudes towards co-management
188(4)
Conclusion: implications for attitudes for community based co-management
192(3)
Conflicts amongst Resource Users: The Case of Kabangaja Fishing and Farming Community on Lake Victoria (Tanzania)
195(16)
Modesta Medard
Kim Geheb
Joash B. Okeyo-Owuor
Research methods and sample selection
196(1)
Community members' origins
197(1)
Major economic activities at Kabangaja
198(1)
Strengths and weaknesses of the BMU at Kabangaja
199(2)
Kabangaja perspectives on management and its implementation
201(5)
Additional sources of conflict at Kabangaja community
206(1)
The implications of conflict for the management of the lake's fisheries
207(2)
Concluding thoughts
209(2)
Institutional Evolution at Lake Chad: Lessons for Fisheries Management
211(17)
Matthias Krings
Marie-Therese Sarch
Background
212(4)
Access to fishing in Kukawa Local Government Area
216(1)
Conflicts in Kukawa
217(1)
Multiple claims
218(1)
Powerful individuals
218(1)
Resulting institutions
219(1)
Successful institutions?
220(1)
Access to dumba fishing rights in Marte LGA
220(1)
Conflict in Marte LGA
221(1)
Multiple claims
222(1)
Powerful individuals
222(1)
Resulting institutions
222(1)
The success of the institutions
223(3)
Synthesis and conclusion
226(2)
Management and Development of the Gambia River Fisheries: A Case for the Co-Management of Inland Fisheries Resources
228(12)
Momodou NJie
Heimo Mikkola
Community fisheries centres and co-management in The Gambia
229(2)
A co-management case study from the Central River Division of The Gambia
231(1)
Fisheries management in the CRD
232(1)
The decline of konokono stocks
233(1)
The CRDFA fisheries co-management strategy
234(2)
Problems and challenges
236(2)
Conclusions: perspectives
238(2)
A Challenge Met? Some Final Thoughts
240(10)
Kim Geheb
Marie-Therese Sarch
A synthesis of themes
240(1)
Fisheries decline
240(1)
Trans-boundary problems
240(1)
The problem of size
241(1)
The access problem
241(2)
National and international policies
243(1)
Local-level political struggles
243(1)
Government-community collaboration
244(2)
The role of negotiation
246(1)
The legalisation of local-level input
247(1)
The role of pre-existing institutions
247(1)
Answering questions
247(1)
What are the reasons for the failures of state based management systems to achieve optimal yields from their inland fisheries?
248(1)
Can Africa's customary and community-based management systems conserve fish stocks and sustain fishing livelihoods?
248(1)
What does `co-management' mean for Africa's inland fisheries?
249(1)
Should fisheries managers manage fish or humans?
249(1)
References 250(29)
Index 279

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