Marine Conservation and Coastal Communities: Who Carries the Costs?

A Study of Marine Protected Areas and Their Impact on Traditional Small-scale Fishing Communities in South Africa

An MPA is considered to be any coastal or marine area in which certain uses are regulated to conserve natural resources, biodiversity, and historical and cultural features. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) defi nes an MPA as “any defi ned area within or adjacent to the marine environment, together with its overlying waters and associated fl ora, fauna, and historical and cultural features, which has been reserved by legislation or other effective means, including custom, with the effect that its marine and/or coastal biodiversity enjoys a higher level of protection than its surroundings”.

As an area-based management tool, MPAs are considered useful in implementing both the ‘ecosystem approach’ and the ‘precautionary approach’, since their design involves managing pressures from human uses by adopting a degree of protection, which can range from strict protection, where all use activities are barred, to less stringent measures like sanctioning areas where multiple uses are allowed and regulated.

Reference :
Jackie Sunde and Moenieba Isaacs International Collective in Support of Fishworkers 27 College Road, Chennai 600 006, India. 2008. 68p

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