Fisherman’s Willingness to Pay for Sustainable Lagoon Ecosystem Management: A Locality Study in Jaffna Lagoon of Sri Lanka

Abstract

This study estimates willingness to pay (WTP) for different sustainable ecosystem management measures in the Jaffna lagoon. For this study, 118 fishermen were randomly selected along the lagoon. Choice modelling approach was employed and a conditional logit model was developed. This study found that fishermen from village communities are willing to pay more for increasing the number of mangroves and improving tourist facilities. The availability of land for planting mangroves and improving tourist facilities and increasing income from other sources positively influence the fisherman’s WTP for sustainable ecosystem management. Establishing fishing harbour facilities, properly planned multi-storey housing units in town areas would increase fishermen’s support for planting mangroves and developing tourist spots. Increasing income from other sources and fishermen’s awareness on the impact of inappropriate fishing gears and enforcing mechanism would increase fishermen’s support to ban the inappropriate fishing gears. Based on this study, government authority could make appropriate policy for urban and village coastal lagoon ecosystem management.

Pro-Environmental Communication and Behavior in Sustainable Use of Environmental Resources: A Study in Kalpitiya Fisheries Inspector Division, Sri Lanka

“…Furthermore, increasing income from other sources and small grants for those who participated in mangrove planting influence inhabitants' willingness to pay for sustainable resource management. The same findings have been reported in the Jaffna lagoon in northern Sri Lanka [15]. Hence, environmental communication is essential and positively impacts human behavior in environmental resource utilization, especially among special groups.…”

Socio-Economic Conditions of the Fishing Community in Nuwewang Village, Letti District, Maluku Barat Daya Regency

“…Fishermen are people who actively carry out fishing activities, both directly (such as spreaders and net users) and indirectly (such as sailboat helmsmen, motorized fishing boat skippers, ship machinists, fishing boat cooks), mentioning fishermen, people will always associate it with a difficult life, living with a low economy. so that people who live in coastal areas in general are often identified with the poor (Arifandy, F. P., Norsain, N., & Firmansyah, 2020;Hwang, 2022;Indrianingrum et al, 2019;Krishnapillai et al, 2020). In reality, the living conditions of the average fisherman are indeed poor .…”