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

Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.......................................................................................................................... vi
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY...........................................................................................................................vii
1 Introduction.......................................................................................................................................... 1
1.1 Background to the socio-economic assessment ........................................................................ 1
1.2 Aims and objectives of the socio economic assessment............................................................ 2
1.3 Sites ............................................................................................................................................ 4
1.4 Methods ...................................................................................................................................... 5
1.5 The Research Team ................................................................................................................... 8
2 Background socio-economic information ............................................................................................ 9
2.1 Location, population, wealth and services .................................................................................. 9
2.2 Economic base and livelihood activities...................................................................................... 9
2.3 Fishing....................................................................................................................................... 10
2.4 Resource status ........................................................................................................................ 10
2.5 Resource governance ............................................................................................................... 11
2.6 Opportunities in the MBREMP .................................................................................................. 11
3 General Occupational structure and dependence on marine and other resources in
the Marine Park................................................................................................................................ 13
3.1 Demographics/Marine Park stakeholders ................................................................................. 13
3.2 A wide range of activities in the Marine Park............................................................................ 14
3.3 General occupational structure of the Marine Park .................................................................. 15
3.4 Focus on fishing ........................................................................................................................ 19
3.5 Summary................................................................................................................................... 24
4 Understanding better fisheries related livelihoods ............................................................................ 25
4.1 Who are the Marine Park marine resource stakeholders? ....................................................... 25
4.2 Fishing systems, use patterns .................................................................................................. 27
4.3 Seaweed farming ...................................................................................................................... 42
4.4 Shell collecting and trading ....................................................................................................... 43
4.5 Trading of fish, cephalopods, crustaceans and holothurians.................................................... 47
4.6 Conflicts, issues and challenges............................................................................................... 53
4.7 Summary................................................................................................................................... 55
5 Socio-economic status ...................................................................................................................... 58
5.1 Measuring socio-economic status............................................................................................. 58
5.2 Results: Asset distribution......................................................................................................... 60
5.3 Investigating links between wealth and activity ........................................................................ 63
5.4 Summary................................................................................................................................... 68
6 Discussion and recommendations .................................................................................................... 70
6.1 Issues and suggestions for management and livelihood development .................................... 70
6.2 Recommendations for monitoring ............................................................................................. 74
7 Concluding remarks .......................................................................................................................... 82
8 References ........................................................................................................................................ 83
9 Appendices........................................................................................................................................ 86
Appendix 1: Training material for the occupational structure (including interview guide) ........................ 86
Appendix 2: Training material for the Resource Use patterns focus groups............................................ 88
Appendix 2: Training material for the Resource Use patterns focus groups............................................ 89
Appendix 3: Data entry Template (for ease of presentation the categories have been
copied under each other, instead of staying in one row)................................................................. 96
Appendix 4: Interview guides Resource use patterns ..............................................................................98
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