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Pacific CT
• Customary tenure system (marine & land)
varies, some recognized in national law, while in
others their recognition is informal
• Practices include seasonal bans on harvesting,
temporary closed (no-take) areas, and
restrictions being placed on certain times,
places, species or classes of persons
• Locally Managed Marine Areas (LMMA) -
reigniting CMT systems and traditional tenure
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Asia-Pacific
LMMA Network
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Request
Assess interest and
awareness raising
Issue
identification
Action planning
Monitoring
(and skills)
Collect and
analyze data (communicate)
Initiation Implement plan
And monitor
Ongoing
management
LMMA Adaptive Management
(AM) Approach
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Fiji fishing grounds:
410 fishing grounds in Fiji
Total area: 30,388km2
FLMMA:
>230 villages
171/410 fishing grounds
LMMA size: 17,957km2 (59%)
Size Tabu: 504.87km2
Mangrove: ~45,000km2
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Benefits from Tabu
• 20-fold increase in clam density in tabu areas
• 200 300% increase in harvest in adjacent areas
• tripling of fish catches, and a 35 45 per cent
increase in household income
• Similar trends in giant clam, sea weed and coral
transplanting, live rock culture, increased algal
herbivory activity, AIG, revive dormant values….
• Cohesive robust community governance
• Sound enforcement & compliance
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Before SC project trialed…
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Opportunities of SC grow-out
• Effective CB resource governance &
coordination in place – cautious approach
• CB management system – integrate
tradition and science knowledge &
systems
• Tabu areas present – need to consider
suitable SC habitats
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Ensure
• Knowledge & technological transfer
• Method & skills capacity assessment and
empowerment
• CB operation body at appropriate
management level (e.g. committee) will
ensure sustainability
– Provided transparent and accountable action
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What next?
• Need to prove success of SC ranching on
available species
• Assess conditions in TABU for optimal
productivity & benefit return
• CB alternatives – Food security &
livelihood