Critical analysis of the governance of the Sainte Luce Locally Managed Marine Area (LMMA), southeast Madagascar

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21521297
AutoresStephen Long (0000-0001-8454-9364, University College London, autor de correspondencia), Grace Thurlow (University College London), PETER J S JONES (0000-0001-8479-3607, University College London), Andrew Turner (0000-0003-0505-4561, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar), Sylvestre M Randrianantenaina (Institut Pasteur de Madagascar), Tom Gammage (0009-0003-0551-369X, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar), Jessica M Savage (0000-0003-0173-5511, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar), Jessica Savage, Jeremie R Ndriamanja (Institut Pasteur de Madagascar)
Año2021
Volumen127
Páginas103691
Fecha de publicación2021-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMarine Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0308-597X • E-ISSN: 1872-9460
EditorialElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.marpol.2019.103691
OpenAlexW2979446093
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas21

The Marine Protected Area Governance (MPAG) framework is applied to critically assess the governance of the Sainte Luce Locally Managed Marine Area (LMMA), southeast Madagascar. Madagascar experiences rapid population growth, widespread poverty, corruption and political instability, which hinders natural resource governance. Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) has been repeatedly employed to circumvent the lack of state capacity. This includes the LMMA model, which has rapidly proliferated, represented by MIHARI, Madagascar's LMMA network. The lobster fishing is the primary source of income for households in the impoverished community of Sainte Luce, one of the key landing sites in the regional export industry. However, fishers, industry actors and available data suggest a significant decline of local and regional stocks, likely due to over-exploitation driven by poverty and migration. In 2013, SEED Madagascar a UK NGO, worked to establish community-based fishery management in Sainte Luce, setting up a local management committee, which introduced a periodic no take zone (NTZ). Despite the community's efforts and some significant achievements, the efficacy of management is limited. To date, limited state support and the lack of engagement by actors throughout the value chain have hampered effective governance. The study reinforces the finding that resilient governance relies on a diversity of actors and the incentives they collectively employ. Here and elsewhere, there is a limit to what can be achieved by bottom-up approaches in isolation. Resilient management of marine resources in Madagascar relies on improving the capacity of community, state, NGO and industry actors to collectively govern resources

Business · Corporate governance · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental resource management · Exploitation of natural resources · Fishery · Fishing · Geography · Incentive · Language change · Marine conservation · Marine protected area · Natural resource · Natural resource management · Political science · Politics · Population · Poverty · Sociology · Coastal and Marine Management · Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies · International Maritime Law Issues · Ecology