Management, Co-Management or No Management?
Major Dilemmas in Southern African Freshwater Fisheries
1. Synthesis Report
Table of Contents
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FAO FISHERIES TECHNICAL PAPER 426/1
Management, Co-Management or No Management? Major Dilemmas in Southern African Freshwater Fisheries 1. Synthesis Report |
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Table of Contents |
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by
Eyolf Jul-Larsen
Jeppe Kolding
Ragnhild Overå
Jesper Raakjaer Nielsen
Paul A.M. van Zwieten
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, 2003
Cover photograph: Lake Chilwa, Paul van Zwieten, Wagenmgen University, the Netherlands The set-up is by Van A tot Z
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ISSN 0429-9345
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1.1 Introduction
1.2 Our point of departure - some uncomfortable feelings
1.3 Research questions and the organization of the report
1.4 Methods and data
2.1.1 Fishing effort, catch and catch rate
2.1.2 Catchability
2.1.3 Selectivity2.2 Social and economic concepts
2.2.1 Population- and investment-driven changes in fishing effort and demographic change
2.2.2 Social institutions
3. TRENDS IN YIELDS AND FISHING EFFORT OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS
3.1 Trends in yields and effort in the SADC region
3.2 Three lakes: different histories - different effort trajectories
3.2.1 Lake Mweru
3.2.2 Lake Kariba (Zambia)
3.2.3 Lake Malombe and the South East Arm of Lake Malawi3.3 Trends in effort dynamics: Population-driven rather than investment-driven growth
3.4 Mobility among fishermen prevents fishing from becoming a ‘last resort’
3.5 Effort development in the context of the fisheries management history
4. FACTORS BEHIND CHANGES IN FISHING EFFORT
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Factors influencing population-driven growth in effort4.2.1 Natural productivity and macroeconomic changes
4.2.2 Local access-regulating mechanisms
4.2.3 Capital investments in the fisheries4.3 Factors impeding investment-driven growth
4.3.1 Market development
4.3.2 Infrastructure
4.3.3 Production-distribution linkages
4.3.4 Capital
4.3.5 The local institutional landscape
5. THE EFFECTS OF FISHING AND ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATION ON THE REGENERATION OF FISH STOCKS
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Classical approaches
5.3 System variability: water level as environmental driver
5.4 Susceptibility of fish stocks and species to fishing under environmental variation
5.5 Selectivity and scale of operation of fishing patterns: dynamics of fishing effort
5.6 Information on catches, effort and environment in African freshwaters
6. IMPLICATIONS FOR FISHERIES MANAGEMENT
6.1 Summary of findings
6.2 What are the implications for management from a biological perspective?
6.3 Social findings and management implications
6.4 Management, co-management or no management in southern African freshwater fisheries?