Environmental Histories and Emerging Fisheries Management of the Upper Zambezi River Floodplains

dc.contributor.authorAbbott, James G.
dc.contributor.authorCampbell, Lisa M.
dc.coverage.countryTanzaniaen_US
dc.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-04T20:24:17Z
dc.date.available2010-02-04T20:24:17Z
dc.date.issued2009en_US
dc.description.abstract"In response to a widespread decline in fisheries, scientists and policy makers have constructed models outlining the biological and social drivers that cause changes in fishing intensity and methods identified with overfishing. The models also address the consequences of overfishing, namely changes in biomass, trophic structure and ecosystem resilience, as well as increased poverty and vulnerability of the fishers, particularly in the developing world. While these models have emerged from marine and coastal fisheries, they have also been used to identify overfishing in floodplain fisheries and to guide management recommendations. In this article, we critique the assumptions of a global overfishing narrative describing the serial depletion of fish species, increased fishing effort and fisher dependence, which are considered valid by various stakeholders in the floodplain fisheries of the Upper Zambezi River. We find that researchers highlight how the inherent variability of the floodplain environment defies the simple diagnoses of overfishing, based on changes in effort and methods or livelihood. However, the views of policy makers and local users on the 'problem of overfishing' are that the fish biomass is declining and intensive fishing methods are to blame, which largely resonate with the narrative. We consider how differing emphasis on parts of the narrative by stakeholders has implications for management, and what such differences tell us about the malleability of narratives."en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournalConservation and Societyen_US
dc.identifier.citationmonthunknownen_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber2en_US
dc.identifier.citationpages83-99en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume7en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10535/5507
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subjectfisheriesen_US
dc.subjectflood managementen_US
dc.subjectSub-Saharan Africaen_US
dc.subject.sectorFisheriesen_US
dc.titleEnvironmental Histories and Emerging Fisheries Management of the Upper Zambezi River Floodplainsen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.type.methodologyCase Studyen_US
dc.type.publishedpublisheden_US

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