Conceptual Bankruptcy in Comprehending and Addressing the Marine Resources Question in Tanzania: The Need for the Social Organisation

Abstract

According to the current World-Fish Centre’s estimates, all around the world, marine resources are experiencing a significant decline. Numerous political and technocratic remedies deployed to abate the problem have primarily been in vain. This analytical paper believes that this widely-acknowledged failure is due to their preoccupation with observable symptoms and not the processes and mechanisms upon which the phenomenon is elevated and resides. It is this conceptual deficiency and ill-conceptions that this paper is set to address. Therefore, the social organisation as a conceptual, diagnosing, and remedial framework is engaged and proposed in light of marine resource depletion in Tanzania. The paper argues that any intervention outside the prevailing socio-political and economic outfit (social organisation) is untenable.