Community role key in fisheries conservation

[津巴布韦Mutare]尊重社区管理的海洋储备，并可能增加数量和数量fish, thereby improving livelihoods of residents in fishing communities, according to a study in Mozambique.

Researchers from Mozambique, Portugal and United Kingdom conducted the study to monitor the Vamizi Island marine sanctuary.

根据参与该研究的英国圣安德鲁斯大学于5月25日发布的一份声明，位于莫桑比克北部的Vamizi Island Marine Sanctuary中，有180多种不同的珊瑚和约400种。记录了礁鱼。

“建立六年后，草食性和piscivovor的（吃鱼类）的鱼在储备中比外面的鱼更丰富，而以前没有差异。”

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但声明补充说，直到2006年，当地渔业委员会建立了庇护所，莫桑比克nampula的邻近坦桑尼亚捕鱼公司和渔民威胁着Vamizi生态系统的存在以及当地人民的生计。

In thestudy published on 30 April inPLOS一个研究人员在三个不同的时间进行了水下视觉普查 - 2003年，在建立时（2006年）和2012年。

“herbivoro成立六年之后us and piscivorous [fish-eating] fish are more abundant inside the reserve than outside, where no difference existed before,” the researchers note in the journal.

Isabel da Silva, a co-author of the study and a marine biologist at Universidade Lúrio in Mozambique, tellsSciDev.Net拥有社区储备可以保留东非的鱼类种群。因此，她敦促政府和社区在Vamizi岛接受模型。

da Silva says such an approach would generate foreign income to further grow the resource, on which most of the people in this region depend.

“When scientists scratch their heads to try to find solutions to existing or rather specific problems, they face insurmountable resistance from the local people who often view them as strangers to their usual pattern of life,” da Silva explains.

The research shows that Vamizi Island investors and ecologists have joined forces with a local community longing for development and together they won. Without the community it was simply impossible to do a reserve.

“The findings provide evidence to help support a long-term future for this collaborative development, which has already allowed tourists access to an almost untouchedbeplay足球体育的微博，村民获得更多工作，药物，更好的学校，新的健康中心，更轻松的访问和communications.”

Dale Kenmuir, Zimbabwean-born ichthyologist, who researches fishfarmingin Southern Africa, says while the study shows productive community involvement in large-scale projects such as the Vamizi marine sanctuary, it is imperative to introduce a marine university in the region to bridge the skills development gap in the fishing sector.

“该地区基于技能的发展大学将为捕鱼行业增加价值，并使渔民和当地人民承担其他经济价值的追求。没有institution of higher learning在该地区或周围地区的那部分，专门从一开始生产的水平。”肯穆尔指出。

本文是由Scidev.net的Sssub-Saharan Africa Desk制作的。