Transcript 6. Community Fisheries and Climate Change

Introduction
 Community fisheries encompasses all that is cultural,
traditional, communal, terrestrial and coastal.
 The main goal is to encourage communities through
the community-based ecosystems approach to
fisheries management (CEAFM) and as custodians of
the marine environment to ensure long-term
sustainability of marine resources.
 Communities, associations, groups and individuals
are what makes up for subsistence and artisanal
fishing.
Status of Community
Fisheries
Recommendations
Action Taken
Specific management systems be
considered essential to enable
invertebrate stocks and heavily
fished finfish stocks to build up,
with the management regimes
being controlled by communities at
scales larger than the current
village boundaries.
•Community-based Fisheries Mgt
(CBFM) Plans for district
communities are being developed
in consultation with them.
•Eco-systems approach will be
incorporated into CBFM to be
CEAFM.
•No specific mgt systems have been
put in place.
•A pilot project to roll out CEAFM
with Anetan, Anabar and Buada
districts is in the pipeline and
should be implemented in the next
few months
Status of Community
Fisheries
Recommendations
Action Taken
If the govt starts to implement mgt
arrangements, preferably through
communities, an awareness
programme is implemented at the
same time to allow people and
communities to fully understand
why the mgt measures are
necessary and the need for
community support if
arrangements are to work
successfully
•Not yet applicable.
Implications of climate
change
Fish needed for good nutrition (35 kg per person per year)
Reef
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Tuna
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Aquaculture
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Fish needed for food security (x 1000 tonnes)
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Implications of climate change
• Determine the sustainable production of reef
fish and shellfish
• Production of reef fish and shellfish expected
to decline
• Tuna will need to supply most of the fish
required
• Coastal fishers will need to transfer their effort
from reefs to tuna
• Aquaculture and reef fish should be used for
‘special ocassions’