a socio-economic baseline assessment of the mnazi bay - IUCN

Table 9: Percentage of fishers fishing per number of months
Number of months fishing Litembe
N=21
Mahurunga
N=5
Mngoji
N=22
Msimbati
N=97
Tangazo
N=37
More than 11 0 20 100 69.072 54.054
7 to 11 100 80 0 29.897 43.243
4 to 6 0 0 0 0 2.703
Less than 4 0 0 0 1.031 0
(Source: Household survey)
Most fishers fish all year round in Msimbati, Tangazo and Mngoji where fishing households are
numerous. However, 43% of fishers were found to take 1 to 3 months off fishing per year in Tangazo. In
Litembe and Mahurunga, the majority fish less than 11 months but more than 6 months (see Table 9).
Very few households are involved in fishing for less than half the year or fish occasionally (less than 4
months per year in total). Occasional fishing was only detected in Tangazo and Msimbati (1 and 2 %).
Most fishers are involved 5 to 6 days a week for most of the year. Overall the most time spent fishing is
in Mngoji, and the least in Litembe.
3.4.4 Is fishing enough to sustain the household?
Despite the fact that fishers are mostly engaged in the activity all year or three quarters of the year, 5 or
6 days per week fishing was often considered insufficient to sustain the households.
Households were asked whether fishing provides:
1. enough and more to the household in terms of income,
2. just enough to break even,
3. not enough income but enough food (fish)
4. not enough income and not enough fish.
The findings show that a minority of households considered fishing to provide enough and more to
sustain the household (14% overall, none in Mngoji and a high percentage in Mahurunga). A quarter of
the fishing households considered that fishing brought just enough in terms of food and income, but the
largest majority (43% overall) considered fishing to provide enough food (fish) but not enough income to
sustain the household. A minority overall considered that fishing brought not enough food or income,
except in Tangazo where this concerned more than 40% of the households.
Figure 5: Is fishing considered enough as a source of food and income for
the household (in proportion of fishing households).
100%
80%
60%
40%
N=22 N=98 N=21 N=37 N=5 N=183
Not enough
Not enough money
but enough fish
Enough
Enough and more
20%
0%
Mngoji Msimbati Litembe Tangazo Mahurunga Overall
(Source: Household survey)
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