| dc.creator |
Onyango, Paul O. |
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| dc.creator |
Jentoft, Svein |
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| dc.date |
2016-07-08T11:50:12Z |
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| dc.date |
2016-07-08T11:50:12Z |
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| dc.date |
2007 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2018-03-27T08:23:29Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2018-03-27T08:23:29Z |
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| dc.identifier |
Onyango, P.O. and Jentoft, S., 2007. Embedding co-management: community-based fisheries resource management regime in Lake Victoria, Tanzania. The WorldFish Center Working Papers. |
|
| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/2850 |
|
| dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/2850 |
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| dc.description |
This paper discusses fisheries management reforms through involving local level
institutions (LLFI). It is based on studies which were undertaken on Tanzania’s Lake
Victoria fishery where LLFIs were established through the formation of Local
enforcement Units, later named Beach Management Units (BMU), between 1998
and 2002. The paper takes the view that the overfishing problems that confront
Tanzania’s fisheries management authorities are best understood from a social
science perspective. The argument is that most communities’ values and institutions
are embedded in their societies. The same is however, not true for externally
originated management tools and systems as is the case with BMUs. This paper
shows that the BMUs established between 1998 and 2002, were not sufficiently
grounded in their socio-cultural environment and this led them to be unsustainable
and ineffective. The paper demonstrates that this mismatch by examining the
different historical and social contexts in which livelihoods such as fishing emerged
and was carried out. These social contexts generated social values that explain the
individual behaviour of community members. It is such values that communities
always strive to maintain in any activity including fishing. Thus, when confronted
with situations that threaten these values, communities strategize or negotiate ways
to cope. The coping strategies of two communities riparian to the lake are discussed.
The paper therefore proposes a framework for making these units ‘fit’ local
conditions in order to make them effective and sustainable so as to reform fisheries
management. |
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| dc.language |
en |
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| dc.subject |
Fisheries Management |
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| dc.subject |
Co-management |
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| dc.subject |
Institutions |
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| dc.subject |
Lake Victoria |
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| dc.subject |
Socio-cultural values |
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| dc.subject |
Embeddedness |
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| dc.title |
Embedding Co-Management: Community-Based Fisheries Resource Management Regime in Lake Victoria, Tanzania |
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| dc.type |
Conference Paper |
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