Nine nations,one ocean: A benchmark appraisal of the South Western Indian Ocean Fisheries Project (2008–2012) |
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| Authors: | Rudy P van der Elst Johan C Groeneveld Ana Paula Baloi Francis Marsac Kaitira I Katonda Renison K Ruwa William L Lane |
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| Institution: | 1. Oceanographic Research Institute, P.O. Box 10712, Marine Parade, 4056 Durban, South Africa;2. Instituto Nacional de Investigação Pesqueira, Caixa Postal 4603, Maputo, Mozambique;3. Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Centre de Recherche Halieutique, Avenue Jean Monnet—BP171, 34203 Sete Cedex, France;4. Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania;5. Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, P.O. Box 81651, Mombasa, Kenya;6. World Bank, Washington, DC, USA |
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| Abstract: | Coastal and island states of the Western Indian Ocean lack scientific and management capacity to draw sustainable benefits from their Exclusive Economic Zones. Declining ecosystem services and unregulated fishing has prompted nine riparian countries to develop a regional framework for capacity building and scientific development towards collective management of shared resources. Supported by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Agulhas and Somali Currents large marine ecosystems programme consists of three inter-related modules, supported by different agencies: land-based impacts on the marine environment (UNEP); productivity, ecosystem health and nearshore fisheries (UNDP) and transboundary shared and migrating fisheries resources (World Bank). The latter is the South Western Indian Ocean Fisheries Project (SWIOFP), a 5-year joint data gathering and fisheries assessment initiative. SWIOFP is a prelude to long-term cooperative fisheries management in partnership with the newly established FAO–South Western Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission (SWIOFC). We describe the development of SWIOFP as a model of participatory regional scientific cooperation and collective ocean management. |
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