Research Korner: Sustainable Management of Fish Resources

Local Community Involvement Ensures Sustainable Management of Fish Resources

Local Community Involvement Ensures Sustainable Management of Fish Resources   In Zambia participation by local village communities in this management is recognized as a prerequisite for wildlife development and conservation. This participation is permitted through the administrative management design for game management areas. To help improve the capacity of rural communities to become more knowledgeable and effective in managing their wildlife resources (Lewis 1995, pp. 861-871), geographical information system was applied and tested as an appropriate technology. Thus, maps composed of easily recognizable information about land use issues affecting the welfare of local residents and their natural resources would facilitate communal societies to make technically improved land use decisions with broad-based support within the community (Lewis 1995, pp. 861-871).  Aside, custom designed maps produced by this technology were used by these leaders to explain and build consensus at the community level on ways to resolve resource use conflicts. There demonstrated the pragmatic and cost-effective value of training local residents to participate in the collection of GIS data as a way of making maps more locally acceptable and better focused on relevant issues and needs (Lewis 1995, pp. 861-871).     Problem statement During the last decade the co-management concept has gained increasing acceptance as a potential way forward to improve fisheries management performance. It has also increasingly evident that the co-management concept is not clearly defined and means very different things to different people. The fisheries co-management of various implementations of co-management arrangements in coastal and freshwater fisheries in Zambia presenting comprehensive understanding of co-management with limited resource outcomes and such problems in actual implementation. The dominant discourse of fisheries science and management, bio-economics, places the behavior of individual fishermen operating the open access commons at the center of its understanding of fisheries resources and the fishing industry as the fishermen are the sole actors and the fishery is the fixed stage for an inevitable "tragedy of the commons" (St. Martin 2001, pp. 122-142).  Starting from particular assumptions, bio-economics proposes solutions to fisheries crisis that differ sharply from fishers' perceptions of the resource and their desires for management. The divergent understandings of natural and social environments are reflected in maps produced by fisheries managers and those produced by fishers themselves (St. Martin 2001, pp. 122-142). Remapping fisheries in terms of fishers' perceptions and scales of operation reveals diverse natural landscapes and communities in which the dominant discourse charted only quantities of fish and individual fishermen. The landscape of fishing communities, once made visible, suggests an opportunity for forms of area-based management that might facilitate community development rather than just individual prosperity (St. Martin 2001, pp. 122-142). Hypothesis Research hypothesis will lead into desirable cues that are ideal for research, it adds to the structure path of research and will provide a thematic analysis within the literature review. The hypothesis can be: H1: Success of classical government management systems that have become inadequate due to limited resources H2: Failures of classical government management systems that have become inadequate due to limited resources Possible benefits of carrying out the research Research undertaking has a lot of benefits for example, research will provide spontaneity of ideas, concepts and evidences in a coherent and logical manner wherein the researcher can extend his/her knowledge resources without any limitations to his/her learning base. This will put in a comprehensive set of studies that are acknowledged by academic institutions for instance secondary resources will give direct back up to primary resources. Research will present literature reviews and execute methodologies that are realistic and feasible to the research team. In research, researcher will gain the benefits of approved grades and distinctions from schools and universities due to expected criteria that pass through validity and reliability of the overall research content. The research will be setting sets out main conclusions of this research study as to how the government authorities will be able to manage fisheries given the fact that limited resources happens. Thus, several frameworks are developed to aid authorities to plan their approaches to sustainable management of fish resources. In addition, and be able to situate what the authorities have already done and what they plan to do within wide portfolio of resource based tactics and strategies. However, assessment or evaluation is needed catering to how well local government is learning its way through to getting stable fish resources as well as of what local authority support agencies need to do to help authorities to accelerate the resources for sustainability assurance. Moreover, some authors may argue that existing management systems as such standards and quality management, while developing rapidly in local government, need further, significant refinement if certain costs and benefits of fisheries resource management strategies will be evaluated systematically. Case study is applicable in this research, reviewing cases on fisheries co-management in industrial fisheries in Zambia. The case studies are classified according to a typology of co-management arrangements. The typology is based on the nature of the decision-making arrangements between governments and users. Decision-making arrangements refer to the roles of governments and user groups, the management tasks and the stages in the management process. Three to five case studies can be analyzed in detail. The analysis shows that co-management covers a wide variety of collaborative arrangements between governments and users. On the basis of the information from these case studies, a number of observations are made concerning the determinants of the type of co-management regime in place. References Lewis D (1995). Importance of GIS to Community-Based Management of Wildlife: Lessons from Zambia. Ecological Applications, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Nov., 1995), pp. 861-871, Ecological Society of America St. Martin K (2001). Making Space for Community Resource Management in Fisheries. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 91, No. 1 (Mar., 2001), pp. 122-142, Taylor & Francis, Ltd. on behalf of the Association of American Geographers

Local Community Involvement Ensures Sustainable Management of Fish Resources

Local Community Involvement Ensures Sustainable Management of Fish Resources In Zambia participation by local villa...