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1 day ago · Fatal drownings are a big risk for small-scale fishers on Africa’s largest lake, with many of those deaths attributed to bad weather – conditions that are likely to worsen with climate change, according to a new study. Lake Victoria – bordering Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda – is heavily fished by some 200,000 fishers, in spite of frequent ...
Climate change is taking its toll on marine ecosystems, fisheries, and the millions of fishers whose livelihoods depend on them. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the intensity of the impacts combined with the reduced adaptation capacity of many in the fisheries sector contribute to the vulnerability of these fishers, their families and communities.
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- Diversification of Livelihoods
- Subsistence Fishers and The Community Approach
- Measures to Reduce Marginalisation of Defined Groups
- Elite Capture
- Narrow Eligibility Conditions
Under the poverty-vulnerability-marginalisation framework, policy and regulations governing the small-scale sector should be sufficiently flexible to allow fishers to use their existing assets and abilities to prevent poverty and vulnerability. An important tool in this regard is recognition of livelihood diversification, which allows fishers and t...
There is a long history of subsistence fishing in South Africa (Sunde and Erwin 2020: 7–15). Although fishing for own consumption, including bartering of catch, is catered for within the community model of the current regulatory framework, subsistence fishers largely feel that their traditional ways of life are not being accounted for in this frame...
The SSF Policy, as discussed, defines vulnerable groups as ‘women, children, disabled and elderly persons who have (historically) been marginalised by others in the fishing sector or any person who can show that his/her equal enjoyment of rights and freedoms is affected in a serious manner comparable to any woman (sic), children, disabled or elderl...
Elite capture is a common problem in decentralisation initiatives that aim to devolve some level of control over resources to local communities (Béné and Neiland 2006: 22–23). In South Africa, previous attempts to transfer control over fisheries resources to ‘community trusts’ led to the capture and mismanagement of trust benefits by non-fishers (I...
The current regulatory regime puts up a number of barriers to the devolution of fishing rights to small-scale fishers. Stringent requirements regarding age, community, nationality, fishing practices and so on serve to not only exclude many vulnerable small-scale fishers from obtaining fishing rights, but also reflect that the balance of power and i...
Jan 15, 2021 · Fisheries in Sub-Saharan Africa are vulnerable to the effects of climate change, which include changes in mean temperature, increasing rainfall variability and the occurrence of extreme weather events.
- Rodney. T. Muringai, Paramu. L. Mafongoya, Romano Lottering
- 2021
Jan 15, 2021 · Fisheries in Sub-Saharan Africa are vulnerable to the effects of climate change, which include changes in mean temperature, increasing rainfall variability and the occurrence of extreme...
Jun 2, 2022 · Sub-Saharan Africa’s freshwater fisheries contribute significantly to the livelihoods and food security of millions of people within the region. However, freshwater fisheries are experiencing multiple anthropogenic stressors such as overfishing, illegal fishing, pollution, and climate change.
Oct 20, 2022 · West Africa’s fishery sectors are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The complex links between the biogeochemical properties of West African waters, fish productivity, and distribution is poorly understood, and this complexity is compounded by the impact of climate change ( Belhabib et al., 2016; Wilson et al., 2021 ).
