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Title: | Sustainability of Fishing in the Bangweulu Swamps, Zambia |
Author: | Imai, Ichiro |
Year: | 1998 |
Periodical: | African Study Monographs |
Volume: | 19 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | October |
Pages: | 69-86 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zambia |
Subjects: | inland fisheries Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment |
External link: | https://jambo.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kiroku/asm_normal/abstracts/pdf/19-2/69-86.pdf |
Abstract: | Based on analysis of data accumulated over a ten-year period (1983-1993), the author explores the ecological and economic dimensions of sustainable resource use in the Bangweulu swamps, Zambia. Focus is on the four main commercial fishing methods: 'mukombo', 'malalikishya', 'ukusebeshya', and 'mukwao'. It appears that fish species and the size of the catch have varied for each fishing method over the decade in question. The localized fish trading system has also changed. As a result of economic decline, bartering has become more dominant than cash trade among the fishermen and fish traders in the swamps. The author fears that a regional development project to conserve the wetlands in Zambia initiated by WWF-Denmark in 1990 has disregarded indigenous management of the resources of the Bangweulu swamps, and advocates participation of all those who have a stake in the swamps, such as the fishermen of various ethnic groups, fish traders, and administrative organs, if the project is to succeed. Bibliogr., sum. |