Kitolelei, Jokim V. and Kakuma, Shinichiro (2022) Protecting Fisheries Resources Through Marine Protected Area Networks: Fiji. In: Satoumi Science. Ecological Research Monographs . Springer Link, New York, pp. 169-190. ISBN 978-0-387-79053-4
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Marine protected areas (MPAs), which are attracting international attention as resource management tools, have rapidly increased to more than 400 and have been building a network called FLMMA in Fiji. In one village, villagers’ traditional knowledge and perceptions of the environment and ecosystem were transformed, leading to collective actions to protect resources and ecosystems. The villagers have connected with outside stakeholders through bilateral knowledge translators. Various types of MPAs exist in Fiji, including those that do not change the location and area, those that rotate the locations, and those shared by multiple villages. The types, locations, and area of the MPAs were decided according to the area of the fishing grounds, the target organisms, and the distances from the villages. The tourism use of the MPAs to meet the cost of MPA operation was observed in some villages. This chapter discusses how to balance the ecosystem conservation and resource use, for example, how to balance ecosystem conservation and fisheries, tourism and fisheries, and how to decide the area size of MPAs.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter |
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| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GC Oceanography G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences |
| Divisions: | School of Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Ocean and Natural Sciences (SAGEONS) |
| Depositing User: | Nirma Narayan |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Mar 2024 02:48 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Mar 2024 02:48 |
| URI: | https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/14537 |
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