We are starting fish conservation in Africa. We are also building on our experience of community led forest conservation in Nigeria. We would love to developed a simple approach which would triall along a 40 km area of lakeshore in the District. It going to be successful because communities would want this approach.
Problem
- Rapid population growth
- Increased number of fishermen
- Overfishing resulting in poor fish catches and biodiversity loss
- Fishing with nets made from hundreds of mosquito nets
- No ownership by the local community
- No enforcement
- The government is under-resourced
Solution
- Local ownership
- Beach Village Committees established
- Simple bylaws adopted and enforced
- Communities confiscate illegal fishing gear and fine fishermen
- Fish breeding areas are protected
- Fishers catch larger fish with larger meshed nets
- More fish, bigger fish, more money
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