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
Further Information
Fish conservation in Africa is a great method that can really improve the economic standard of Africa and also increase the benefit of international trade globally.
Our future plan is to make sure that we we provide an enabling environment and also good expertise that can help manage the fish conservation in reserved.