2020
DOI: 10.1007/s40152-020-00195-x
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Participatory governance in Lake Victoria (Kenya) fisheries: whose voices are heard?

Abstract: Co-management is advocated as a means to improve human equity and the ecological sustainability of common-pool resources. The promotion of co-management of fisheries often assumes the participation of resource users in decision-making ensures more ecologically sustainable outcomes than top–down management approaches while improving livelihoods and food security. However, in fisheries co-management approaches, participation is often poorly defined and measured by co-management proponents. For resource users, it… Show more

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“…Furthermore, the imported fish are readily available at the depot regardless of the production season.. The declining catches in Lake Victoria has raised uncertainty on the availability of fish among fish traders who go to the beaches daily to wait for fishermen from the lake after trapping fish overnight (Etiegni et al, 2020).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Furthermore, the imported fish are readily available at the depot regardless of the production season.. The declining catches in Lake Victoria has raised uncertainty on the availability of fish among fish traders who go to the beaches daily to wait for fishermen from the lake after trapping fish overnight (Etiegni et al, 2020).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…More recent moves to 'integrate' other forms of knowledge beyond traditional scientific and technical data have in large part continued with this trend, in which knowledges that do not fit the 'normal' science mould have been taken and reshaped in attempts to fit into such moulds. This has reduced such knowledges to ancillary data to better inform scientific models and approaches for problems and challenges already set and defined by governmental or scientific research agendas (Walley, 2004;Etiegni et al, 2020). Such approaches can fail to acknowledge non-traditional scientific knowledge as being more than ecological knowledge, centred on place-based issues with specific contexts, histories, challenges, experiences, and interests.…”
Section: Knowledge Co-production and Transdisciplinary Research Appro...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This requires keen and attentive vigilance to how power, access and participation are realised in decision making. As the above case studies demonstrate, this is an iterative and continual process that requires substantial time, trust, and resources (Gutieŕrez et al, 2011;d'Armengol et al, 2018;Etiegni et al, 2020;Maxwell et al, 2020;Cooke et al, 2021;Reid et al, 2021;Silver et al, 2022).…”
Section: Knowledge Co-production and Transdisciplinary Research Appro...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Other existing threats, such as the declining population of the potamodromous (O. microlepis), the commercial extinction of L. mesops, the impacts of climate change, and the effect of siltation on fish biodiversity, are given low priority [31]. The command-control nature of the act also makes it costly and challenging to implement due to increased non-compliance and strong resistance from the local fishing communities [98]. Again, Lake Malombe's ecosystem health is shaped by multiple interactions between socio-ecological components rather than a single factor; hence, the Fisheries Act alone cannot effectively reverse the situation.…”
Section: Responsementioning
confidence: 99%