Fiji Locally Managed Marine Area Network - Fiji
Summary
The Fiji Locally-Managed Marine Area Network brings together community members, conservation practitioners, researchers, and government officials in Fiji to use community-based marine resource management to provide for local livelihoods and enhance marine biodiversity.
Objective
- To have healthy ecosystems and communities, abundant fish and other marine resource stocks, and sustainable fisheries utilization.
- To protect marine biodiversity.
- To understand the ecological and socio-economic responses to LMMA implementation.
- Raise global awareness of the biological and social-economic science related to LMMAs coming out of Asia-Pacific.
Key Achievements
Biodiversity
- Growth in the number and size of clams, crabs, and other species inside and outside of tabu areas
- Marine life (including stingrays) returning to the offshore mudflats
Socio-economic
- In the Ucunivanua village, household incomes increased by 35% and resource catch per unit effort tripled.
- In the Verata District, licensed biodiversity samples for testing resulted in revenues of US $30,000, which have been invested into a community biodiversity trust fund.
- In Cuvu, increased fish and shellfish harvests have improved food security, economic security, and allowed for the development of a trust fund to support ecotourism ventures in tabu areas and sustainable coral aquaculture.
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