Fishing Livelihoods and Fisheries Governance

Abstract

This book centres on an understanding of fishing livelihoods within processes of historical change, and the social and political relationships within which they are embedded. Drawing on our research experience from the Asia-Pacific region, we examine where fishing livelihoods have come from, and where they are going. This introductory chapter introduces fishing livelihoods and the governance challenge that they face, before examining social science research in greater depth. We then develop the idea of a relational approach to fishing livelihoods, describing how they are shaped by wider political and economic trajectories, by local social relationships and by institutional structures.

Chronic Boat Noise Impacts on the Early Life Stages of Cichlids (Maylandia zebra): Preliminary Findings

“…Maternal mouth-brooding is also an important feature of the species, lasting for three weeks before the female releases the larvae. Due to increased human activities and development of fishing and tourism industries (Allison and Mvula, 2002;Makochekanwa, 2013) in lake Malawi man-made noise has become a pollutant of concern. As M. zebra is an established study model in behaviour and bioacoustics (Amorim et al, 2019;Bertucci et al, 2010;Chabrolles et al, 2017;Mellor et al, 2011), it provides an excellent opportunity to assess the effects of long-term anthropogenic noise on growth and behaviour during the early life stages.…”