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1 Geheb, Kim; Medard, M.; Kyangwa, M.; Lwenya, C.. 2007. The future of change: Roles, dynamics and functions for fishing communities in the management of Lake Victoria’s fisheries. Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management, 10 (4):467–480.
Lakes ; Fisheries ; Fishery management ; Institutions / Africa / Tanzania / Uganda / Kenya / Lake Victoria
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 639.2 G100 GEH Record No: H040617)
This paper is based on five years of research around the shores of Lake Victoria carried out by the lake’s Fisheries Research Institutes in collaboration with the Lake Victoria Fisheries Research Project. Based on this experience, the authors identify a series of difficulties, which impedes the effective management of the lake’s fisheries. These relate to profound weaknesses in the current state-administered management of the lake along with difficulties transferring regulatory power to fishing communities, and problems establishing an adequate ‘co-managerial’ framework for the development and implementation of managerial action. The authors propose a management structure based on three levels of administration which have at their core ‘beach committees,’ and which serve as forums for negotiated managerial outcomes.
2 Geheb, Kim; Kalloch, S.; Medard, M.; Nyapendi, A. T.; Lwenya, C.; Kyangwa, M. 2008. Nile perch and the hungry of Lake Victoria: Gender, status and food in an East African fishery. Food Policy, 33(1):85-98.
Lakes ; Fisheries ; Fishery management ; Social aspects ; Malnutrition ; Income ; Fishermen ; Gender ; Labor ; Women ; Export ; Constraints ; Poverty ; Households / Africa / Tanzania / Uganda / Lake Victoria
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 639.2 G100 GEH Record No: H040618)
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Lake Victoria supports Africa’s largest inland fishery, and its most valuable product is the Nile perch, much of which is exported. This has given rise to arguments claiming a direct linear relationship between perch exports and disturbingly high rates of malnutrition along the lake’s shores. In this paper, we argue that this argument is seriously flawed for it is unable to explain how it is that the income from the Nile perch fishery fails to translate into a well-fed riparian population. We draw on field work carried out in 2001 that (a) set out to establish exactly how much malnutrition there was on the lake’s shores; and (b) sought to identify hat happened to the income the fishery generates. We argue that because men control much of the fishery, and women are held responsible for the upkeep of their families, little of this income makes its way back into the households of the region, giving rise to the levels of malnutrition we observed.
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