Food, power and agency: revealing local post-harvest fisheries practices to improve food access from small-scale fisheries in coastal Kenya
MAST. Maritime studies/Maritime studies,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
24(1)
Published: Jan. 29, 2025
Abstract
This
article
proposes
the
case
of
Kenyan
coastal
fisheries
as
a
potentially
crucial
reservoir
food-related
benefits
for
marginalised
and
those
living
in
poverty,
but
where
food-centred
lens
or
approach
is
seldom
mainstreamed
local
national
governance.
Borrowing
insights
from
post-structuralist
marine
social
sciences,
this
presents
an
ethnographic
account
grassroots
practices
in-the-making
such
handling,
sorting,
allocating
fish
once
caught,
how
these
lead
to
categorisations
classifications
fish.
sort
evidence
knowledge
around
spotlights
importance
considering
post-harvest
sector
(as
opposed
activity
fishing
alone),
that
is,
use
catch
determines
access
through
micro
relations
power
agency.
Through
analysis
two
different
locations
Watamu
Shimoni
terms
economy
overall
development,
categories
highlights
necessity
fairer
distribution
rather
than
solely
production
(of
fish)
overly
market-oriented.
Language: Английский
Fisheries Sustainability Eroded by Lost Catch Proportionality in a Coral Reef Seascape
Sustainability,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
17(6), P. 2671 - 2671
Published: March 18, 2025
Coral
reef
and
their
ecological
services
of
food
production
shoreline
protection
are
threatened
by
unsustainable
use.
To
better
understand
status,
multiple
approaches
to
estimating
fisheries
sustainability
were
compared,
namely
fisheries-independent
stock
biomass
recovery
rates,
fisheries-dependent
landed
catches,
balanced
harvest
gear
use
metrics,
fish
length
measurements.
A
community
was
established
over
a
45-year
no-fishing
time
series
from
seven
reserves
compared
catch-
length-based
estimates
sustainability.
The
logistic
rates
(r
=
0.09
±
0.06
95%
confidence
interval
(CI))
maximum
equilibrium
total
(~150
30
tons/km2)
indicated
broad
range
potential
sustainable
yields,
with
likely
1.1
3.9
(95%
CI;
mean
3.8)
tons/km2/year.
In
contrast,
the
annual
linear
growth
in
lower
but
less
variable
than
surplus
estimates,
ranging
2.1
3.5
(mean
2.8
tons/km2/year).
Realized
catches
at
landing
sites
still,
1.43
1.52
1.48
0.2
tons/km2/y).
Differences
between
capture
largely
attributable
changes
taxonomic
composition
an
imbalance
estimated
proportionality
versus
actual
rates.
Lost
due
differences
vulnerability
taxa
fishing
lack
compensatory
increased
among
fishing-resistant
taxa.
Large
proportional
losses
catch
measured
snappers,
unicorn
fish,
sweetlips,
goatfish,
soldierfish,
while
smaller
gains
samples
found
resident
herbivorous
rabbitfish,
parrotfish,
groupers.
Many
these
declining
have
vulnerable
schooling
life
histories
that
require
special
habitat
reserve
characteristics.
Evaluations
measurements
17
or
7%
12%
caught
species
had
sample
sizes
minimally
sufficient
for
evaluation
(>30
individuals
413
2284
captured
composed
144
species)
spawning
metrics
Seven
met
three
ratio
thresholds
Consequently,
evaluations
poor
coverage
therefore
we
unable
evaluate
larger
community.
Recommendations
future
research
include
understanding
consequences
variability
spillover
Management
recommendations
focus
management
on
abundant
unfished
locations
not
contributing
yield.
Language: Английский
A bibliometric analysis of the marine fishing landscape in Africa and its implications for sustainable coastal communities’ resilience and governance to the increasing human-environmental risks
Anthropocene Coasts,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
8(1)
Published: Jan. 26, 2025
Language: Английский
Tropical fishery nutrient production depends on biomass-based management
iScience,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
27(4), P. 109420 - 109420
Published: March 5, 2024
The
need
to
enhance
nutrient
production
from
tropical
ecosystems
feed
the
poor
could
potentially
create
a
new
framework
for
fisheries
science
and
management.
Early
recommendations
have
included
targeting
small
fishes
increasing
species
richness
of
fish
catches,
which
represent
departure
more
traditional
approaches
such
as
biomass-based
To
test
these
recommendations,
we
compared
outcomes
management
with
hypothesized
factors
influencing
density
in
nearshore
artisanal
catches
Western
Indian
Ocean.
We
found
that
enhancing
depends
primarily
on
achieving
targets.
Catches
dominated
by
low-
mid-trophic
level
smaller
body
sizes
faster
turnover
were
associated
modest
increases
densities,
but
variability
was
relative
human
nutritional
requirements.
Therefore,
fishery
should
focus
restoring
biomass
achieve
maximum
yields
sustainability,
particularly
herbivorous
fishes.
Language: Английский