气候变化,全球化,工业和城市活动的增加威胁到小规模渔业的可持续性和生存能力。受影响的人如何集体动员他们的行动,分享知识,建立他们的本地适应能力将决定他们如何最好地应对这些变化。本文考察了小规模捕捞行为者所经历的变化,社会和治理的复杂性,以及林贝渔业系统的可持续性挑战,喀麦隆。借鉴鱼类作为食物的框架,我们讨论了鉴于全球威胁的融合,无效的渔业管理如何导致鱼类收获机活动的变化,造成鱼类供应短缺和鱼类价值链中断。本文通过与鱼类收割机和鱼贩的焦点小组讨论,提出了三个关键发现。首先,我们表明,捕鱼活动的增加和渔业管理不力导致的渔业变化扰乱了鱼类的捕捞和供应,影响小规模捕鱼行为者及其社区的社会和经济福祉。第二,由于鱼类供应短缺,渔业价值链存在复杂性,在其活动不受任何特定规则或政策管制的渔业行为者之间造成冲突。第三,尽管林贝小规模渔业很重要,捕鱼行为者放弃了管理,他们没有适当的能力来设计和执行有效的渔业管理程序和防止非法捕鱼活动。这种未被充分研究的渔业的经验发现为鱼类作为食物框架的文献做出了学术贡献,并表明需要支持小规模行为者的捕鱼活动和林贝渔业系统的可持续性。
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Climate change, globalization, and increasing industrial and urban activities threaten the sustainability and viability of small-scale fisheries. How those affected can collectively mobilize their actions, share knowledge, and build their local adaptive capacity will shape how best they respond to these changes. This paper examines the changes experienced by small-scale fishing actors, social and governance complexities, and the sustainability challenges within the fisheries system in Limbe, Cameroon. Drawing on the fish-as-food framework, we discuss how ineffective fishery management in light of a confluence of global threats has resulted in changes to fish harvesters\' activities, causing shortages in fish supply and disruptions in the fish value chain. The paper uses focus group discussions with fish harvesters and fishmongers to present three key findings. First, we show that changes in the fisheries from increased fishing activities and ineffective fishery management have disrupted fish harvesting and supply, impacting the social and economic well-being of small-scale fishing actors and their communities. Second, there are complexities in the fisheries value chain due to shortages in fish supply, creating conflicts between fisheries actors whose activities are not regulated by any specific set of rules or policies. Third, despite the importance of small-scale fisheries in Limbe, management has been abandoned by fishing actors who are not well-equipped with the appropriate capacity to design and enforce effective fishery management procedures and protections against illegal fishing activities. Empirical findings from this understudied fishery make scholarly contributions to the literature on the fish-as-food framework and demonstrate the need to support small-scale actors\' fishing activities and the sustainability of the fisheries system in Limbe.
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