Artisanal fishers on the Kenyan coast : household livelihoods and marine resource management /
Overexploitation of natural resources is often associated with poverty among local populations. A multi-disciplinary team studied artisanal fishers along the Kenyan coast on the Indian Ocean. The main focus of the research was on income diversification of fishers, the pressure on marine resources an...
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009
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| Series: | Afrika-Studiecentrum series ;
v. 14. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations/Acronyms
- Glossary
- List of tables
- List of figures
- List of boxes
- List of maps
- 1. Sea fisheries in Kenya
- Background history
- Artisanal fisheries
- Fisher incomes and poverty
- Resource conservation
- Fishing on the Indian Ocean coast
- Outline
- 2. Talking to fishers
- Study area
- Study design
- Survey of artisanal fishers
- Survey of fish landings
- Survey of fish traders
- Survey of fisher households
- Supporting studies
- 3. Artisanal fishers and their craft
- Fishing vessels
- Fishing gear
- Ethnic tradition in fishing
- Conclusions
- 4. Fish landings
- Fish species composition and catch size
- Fisher incomes
- Fish handling and marketing
- Marketing constraints
- Conclusions
- 5. Fisher livelihoods
- Economic activities
- Household incomes
- Income diversification
- More about activity diversification
- Food consumption
- Conclusions
- 6. Marine conservation
- Fisher number
- Fishing grounds
- Fishing gear
- Fishing frequency
- Income diversification and fishing practices
- Conclusions
- 7. Conclusions
- Appendices
- 1 List of fish species in the Malindi-Kilifi marine waters
- 2 Catch composition by landing site
- 3 Household food consumption
- 4 Regulations in Marine Parks and Marine Reserves
- Notes
- References
- Index.
