Piloting participatory smartphone mapping of intertidal fishing grounds and resources in northern Mozambique: Opportunities and future directions

Abstract

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Pemanfaatan aplikasi nelayan pintar di Kabupaten Pati – Jawa Tengah

“…Ketersediaan informasi seperti pembagian tangkapan ikan, alat tangkap yang digunakan, kapal diperlukan untuk pengelolaan rencana yang tepat dalam pengelolaan usaha perikanan tangkap (Previero & Gasalla, 2018) . Informasi mengenai daerah tangkapan ikan sangat penting diterapkan untuk menanggulangi permasalahan perebutan daerah tangkapan ikan dan overfishing (Arifah, 2018;Muhsoni, Efendy, & Triajijie, 2009;Paul, Wilson, Cachimo, & Riddell, 2016). Meskipun memiliki sumber daya perikanan yang melimpah, keterlibatan masyarakat khususnya nelayan akan sangat dibutuhkan dalam menyeimbangkan pemanfaatan dan konservasi sumber daya perikanan (Suharno et al, 2017).…”

Participatory monitoring in community-based fisheries management through a gender lens

“…The process of determining which papers engaged with local knowledge in a way that could be considered to be monitoring was challenging due to the variety of terms and framing used in the literature, and the fact that many papers referred to pilot activities which had the potential to be the baseline for a long-term monitoring programme (e.g. Paul et al 2016).…”

“…Instrumental or intrinsic justifications were provided for participatory monitoring, where the inclusion of community members in monitoring activities was either seen as fairer (intrinsic value), or as a way to collect data or improve engagement that could benefit other management outcomes (instrumental value). In these cases, monitoring was used to evaluate management interventions (Aswani and Weiant 2004;Crawford et al 2010), collect data in data-poor fisheries where other survey methods were not practical (Patricio et al 2019), make evidence-based decisions (Carvalho et al 2009;Crawford et al 2010), build community members' confidence and engagement in management (Aswani and Weiant, 2004), or as a tool to increase communities' negotiating power with external actors, such as NGOs or the authorities (Carvalho et al 2009;Paul et al 2016). Several programmes also worked to increase the involvement of the data collectors in decision-making.…”

“…Participatory monitoring is one tool which has been used to increase women's participation and transform power dynamics in fisheries management (Carvalho et al 2009;Paul et al 2016). Participatory monitoring is distinct from other forms of local knowledge.…”

Reef Conservation off the Hook: Can Market Interventions Make Coral Reef Fisheries More Sustainable?

“…Providing fishers with timely and accurate information on market prices may allow them to adjust to changing market conditions to maximize their income, in theory reducing the economic imperative to overfish (Pauly and Chua, 1988;Purcell et al, 2013). As cellular coverage and cell phone usage spreads globally, smartphone apps are being implemented that increase coral reef fisheries data collection, including gathering and reporting catch data (Frost, 2017;Jeffers et al, 2019), monitoring illegal, unreported, andunregulated fishing (Environmental Justice Foundation, 2014;Nisanala et al, 2015;CEA, 2020b), and mapping fishing grounds (Paul et al, 2016). Several smart phone apps have been developed to date, including (1) Abalobi that provides (non-reef) small-scale fisheries in South Africa with a platform for data collection, supply chain traceability, real-time market information, and direct access to purchasers (UNESCO, 2018), (2) OurFish created by Rare that acts as a fisheries monitoring system and finance management system for reef fisheries in Honduras and Belize 1 , (3) PeskAAS created by WorldFish that acts as a monitoring system for small-scale fisheries in Timor-Leste and could be used as a platform for providing fishers with market information (Tilley et al, 2020), and (4) PescaData created by COBI which allows small-scale fishers in Mexico to monitor effort and catch, obtain real-time market information, and have direct access to the marketplace 2 .…”