Promoting community-based management for secure fisheries, biodiversity and livelihoods
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main Project
VALUE £284,718
WHERE Madagascar
Summary
The project will assist the recovery of an overexploited, economically crucial lobster fishery, safeguarding biodiversity while promoting economic development. Economic incentives will catalyse engagement with fishery management, establishing conditions for permanent reserves and broader coastal conservation.
A proven, adaptive, community-based model will be refined and extended to two further communities. Outreach activities and collaboration with government and private sector stakeholders will foster replication and improve environmental governance across the regional fishery, securing ecological and economic impacts beyond the project lifespan.
Strengthened local and regional capacity to implement adaptive, sustainable fishery management, economically empowering 850 fishers, contributing to poverty alleviation amongst 4,250 and protecting 480km² of marine biodiversity in southeast Madagascar.
l’Unité Recherche Langoustière (URL), L’Arrivage, MIHARI, Directorate of Marine Resources and Fisheries (DRRHP), Blue Ventures, Le Martin Pecheur, Madapeché, University College London (UCL) - Geog
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