The fisherwomen of Ngazidja island, Comoros: Fisheries livelihoods, impacts, and implications for management

Hauzer, Melissa; Dearden, Philip; Murray, Grant

doi:10.1016/j.fishres.2012.12.001

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“…However, following their engagement in seaweed culture, middle-aged women at Jibondo were found to be financially stronger than some of the men and the interviewed female household heads revealed that they met their basic needs without assistance. This undermined women's capacity to carry out their role in children's upbringing and well-being, although it may also suggest an important role played by women in sustaining life at Jibondo (Hauzer et al, 2013;Moshy et al, 2013). However, women were cautious to reveal their actual earnings to their spouses, in trying to avoid being made to shoulder household maintenance or in fear of men using their income for personal interests such as paying bride price for another wife.…”

Section: Economic Situationsmentioning

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Social-ecological Changes, Livelihoods and Resilience Among Fishing Communities in Mafia Island Marine Park, Tanzania

Moshy

Bryceson

Mwaipopo

2015

Forum for Development Studies

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Analysis of societal dimensions is increasingly receiving attention in socialecological resilience research. This study investigates the impacts of neo-liberal marine conservation and economic policies, and environmental changes on the livelihoods of two fishing communities in Mafia Island Marine Park, Tanzania, and their response strategies towards attempting to maintain livelihood resilience. These communities are in similar geographical and administrative settings but differ in their proximity to Park headquarters, conformity to Park regulations and engagement in fish trade. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, direct observation and questionnaire surveys. Interviewees from both villages reported increasing poverty in terms of reduced capacity to meet their basic needs, and decreases in numbers of meals per day, variety of foods and fish consumption, reduced access to resources, low productivity and prices of local produce. Women experienced raised household responsibilities for food security and meeting other household needs. Their main responses to these changes included loan seeking, reduction of expenditures, skipping meals, selling assets, collective fishing, livelihoods diversification, change of fishing techniques and gears, abandoning of fishing activity and outward migration. Their responses only contributed to survival without resolving the challenges. Paying attention to these societal experiences is therefore necessary, if resilience of socialecological systems in a marine conservation area is to be maintained or enhanced.

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“…However, fishers sold most of their catches to buy food. Food security in most island communities is a critical issue due to great reliance on fish for dietary protein and food security, increased fish demands and integrations to global economy, and increasing tensions from conservation (Foale et al, 2013;Hardy et al, 2013;Hauzer et al 2013).…”

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Social-ecological Changes, Livelihoods and Resilience Among Fishing Communities in Mafia Island Marine Park, Tanzania

Moshy

Bryceson

Mwaipopo

2015

Forum for Development Studies

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“…To identify ecological and social interactions, it is first necessary to define the species, habitats, and fishing strategies that will be included in management (Pomeroy et al 2010). Gender may be a key consideration for identifying fishing strategies, as women and men often have distinct and interacting roles in small-scale fisheries (Chapman 1987;Siar 2003;Magalhães et al 2007;Medard 2012), with women and men often targeting different marine life and habitats (Bliege Bird 2007;Hauzer et al 2013). Hence, if women and other minority or marginalized groups are not included, there is a great potential to miss certain fishing strategies and subsequently key social and ecological interactions.…”

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Improving fisheries estimates by including women’s catch in the Central Philippines

KleiberDanika

Harris

VincentAmanda

2014

Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci.

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Small-scale fisheries catch and effort estimates are often built on incomplete data because they overlook the fishing of minority or marginalized groups. Women do participate in small-scale fisheries and often in ways distinct from men's fishing. Hence, the inclusion of women's fishing is necessary to understanding the diversity and totality of human fishing efforts. This case study examines how the inclusion of women's fishing alters the enumeration of fishers and estimations of catch mass, fishing effort, and targeted organisms in 12 communities in the Central Philippines. Women were 42% of all fishers and contributed approximately one-quarter of the fishing effort and catch mass. Narrower definitions of fishing that excluded gleaning (gathering of benthic macroinvertebrates in intertidal areas) and part-time fishing masked the participation and contribution of most women fishers. In this case study, it is clear that overlooking women and part-time or gleaning fishers led to the underestimation of fishing effort and catch mass. Overlooking gleaning had also led to underestimation of shells and other benthic macroinvertebrates in fishing catches.

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“…Of particular concern are marginalized and vulnerable coastal communities and groups, including small-scale fishers, traditional land-owners, historical tenure holders, indigenous groups and women. Gender considerations are important here since women fishers and gleaners may access and use different areas and resources than men -for example, the foreshore and reef areas situated within sight of communities [27,28]. Ocean grabbing initiatives might also advantage newer populations over long-standing populations or vice versa.…”

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Ocean grabbing

Bennett¹,

Govan²,

Satterfield³

2018

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The term “ocean grabbing” has been used to describe actions, policies or initiatives that deprive small-scale fishers of resources, dispossess vulnerable populations of coastal lands, and/or undermine historical access to areas of the sea. Rights and access to marine resources and spaces are frequently reallocated through government or private sector initiatives to achieve conservation, management or development objectives with a variety of outcomes for different sectors of society. This paper provides a definition and gives examples of reallocations of marine resources or spaces that might constitute “ocean grabbing”. It offers a tentative framework for evaluating whether marine conservation, management or development is ocean grabbing and proposes an agenda for future research. For a reallocation to be considered ocean grabbing, it must: (1) occur by means of inadequate governance, and (2) be implemented using actions that undermine human security and livelihoods, or (3) produce impacts that reduce social–ecological well-being. Future research on ocean grabbing will: document case studies, drivers and consequences; conduct spatial and historical analyses; and investigate solutions. The intent is to stimulate rigorous discussion and promote systematic inquiry into the phenomenon of ocean grabbing.

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The fisherwomen of Ngazidja island, Comoros: Fisheries livelihoods, impacts, and implications for management

Cited by 65 publications

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Social-ecological Changes, Livelihoods and Resilience Among Fishing Communities in Mafia Island Marine Park, Tanzania

Social-ecological Changes, Livelihoods and Resilience Among Fishing Communities in Mafia Island Marine Park, Tanzania

Improving fisheries estimates by including women’s catch in the Central Philippines

Ocean grabbing

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