What Does the Future Hold for Malagasy Coastal Communities?

Traditional fisheries in Madagascar provide the main source of livelihood for over 100,000 fishermen from 1250 communities along 5,000 kms of coast. The fishery provides 50% of the Malagasy fish catch and supplies 70% of the fish locally consumed. Despite this, the sector is not recognised officially, and is marginalised from mainstream national economic development. Since 1995 a group of Malagasy NGOs, supported by European NGOs, have been drawing public attention – both locally and internationally – to this situation. Over the last 6 years they have carried out a number of programmes both locally and internationally. These have involved studying and documenting the traditional sector, organising formal meetings between representatives from traditional fishing communities and policy makers, and lobbying the Malagasy Government and European Union Member States to include traditional fisheries in their development initiatives.

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Main Author: Randrianasoavina, F.
Format: Conference Material biblioteca
Language:English
Published: ICSF/ IOI 2001
Subjects:Communities, Fishermen,
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1834/864
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spelling dig-aquadocs-1834-8642021-05-19T06:14:19Z What Does the Future Hold for Malagasy Coastal Communities? Randrianasoavina, F. Communities Fishermen Traditional fisheries in Madagascar provide the main source of livelihood for over 100,000 fishermen from 1250 communities along 5,000 kms of coast. The fishery provides 50% of the Malagasy fish catch and supplies 70% of the fish locally consumed. Despite this, the sector is not recognised officially, and is marginalised from mainstream national economic development. Since 1995 a group of Malagasy NGOs, supported by European NGOs, have been drawing public attention – both locally and internationally – to this situation. Over the last 6 years they have carried out a number of programmes both locally and internationally. These have involved studying and documenting the traditional sector, organising formal meetings between representatives from traditional fishing communities and policy makers, and lobbying the Malagasy Government and European Union Member States to include traditional fisheries in their development initiatives. 2005-10-20T13:33:43Z 2005-10-20T13:33:43Z 2001 Conference Material Non-Refereed Paper Forging Unity : Coastal Communities and the Indian Ocean’s Future. Conference organized at IIT Madras Chennai, India, 9 – 13 October 2001 http://hdl.handle.net/1834/864 en 96806 bytes application/pdf ICSF/ IOI
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What Does the Future Hold for Malagasy Coastal Communities?
description Traditional fisheries in Madagascar provide the main source of livelihood for over 100,000 fishermen from 1250 communities along 5,000 kms of coast. The fishery provides 50% of the Malagasy fish catch and supplies 70% of the fish locally consumed. Despite this, the sector is not recognised officially, and is marginalised from mainstream national economic development. Since 1995 a group of Malagasy NGOs, supported by European NGOs, have been drawing public attention – both locally and internationally – to this situation. Over the last 6 years they have carried out a number of programmes both locally and internationally. These have involved studying and documenting the traditional sector, organising formal meetings between representatives from traditional fishing communities and policy makers, and lobbying the Malagasy Government and European Union Member States to include traditional fisheries in their development initiatives.
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