{"id":61934,"date":"2011-04-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-coastal-resources-center-awarded-11-5-million-grant-to-promote-sustainable-fishing-practices-in-senegal\/"},"modified":"2011-04-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T00:00:00","slug":"uri-coastal-resources-center-awarded-11-5-million-grant-to-promote-sustainable-fishing-practices-in-senegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2011\/04\/uri-coastal-resources-center-awarded-11-5-million-grant-to-promote-sustainable-fishing-practices-in-senegal\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 Coastal Resources Center awarded $11.5 million grant to promote sustainable fishing practices in Senegal"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tNARRAGANSETT, R.I. \u2013 April 25, 2011 \u2013 The Coastal Resources Center and the Fisheries Center at the 溏心vlog免费B站 have been awarded an $11.5 million grant from the United States Agency for International Development to support efforts by the government of Senegal to reform its fishing industry and promote sustainable fishing practices.<\/p>\n


\nIt is the first project in Senegal by the 溏心vlog免费B站 centers, although they have worked on coastal management and sustainable fisheries initiatives in several other sub-Saharan Africa countries for many years.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cMany of the fisheries in Senegal are severely overfished, with too many fishermen chasing too few fish,\u201d said Brian Crawford, director of international programs at the Coastal Resources Center. \u201cTo prevent overfishing, they need to make improvements in the way they govern the resource and move toward better co-management approaches where fishermen are more engaged in the decision making process.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nOne of the challenges, according to Crawford, is that fishing has been considered \u201ca social safety net within the Senegal economy\u201d whereby farmers and others who were struggling financially could easily switch to fishing. Restricting access to fishing, which is likely to be one result of proposed reforms, could mean that some Senegalese who want to fish would be prohibited from doing so.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cBut before they get to that point, we need to look at the legal and institutional structures in place that govern decisions about who can fish, where, when and how,\u201d said Crawford.<\/p>\n


\nThe grant will enable the Coastal Resources Center to establish an office in Dakar, Senegal, and hire local staff and collaborate with local partners, including the World Wide Fund for Nature, a local university, and several community and fisherman\u2019s organizations. Together with the fishermen, they will identify two fish stocks for which they will facilitate a participatory process to develop management plans. They will assess the status of the stocks and identify the many implications of potential management measures on the fishery and the fishermen.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cWe will also assist the Senegal Department of Marine Fisheries to develop institutional mechanisms that promote co-management approaches that worldwide have been proven more effective at managing fisheries resources and still provide food security to the population,\u201d Crawford said.<\/p>\n


\nThe team will also develop strategies to protect critical marine habitats and threatened marine species and identify national and community scale actions that can be undertaken to adapt to coastal affects from climate change. The project will also pilot an initiative similar to the Sea Grant and Land Grant models in the U.S. that links local universities with private sector and government stakeholders in order to better use science in management decision making.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cIt is a long term process, so we don\u2019t expect that there will be huge changes in the biological conditions over the five year life of the project,\u201d Crawford said. \u201cBut we want to build a foundation of enabling conditions so that those changes can eventually be achieved even if not until after the project ends.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe Project is being led by James Tobey at the Coastal Resources Center and by Kathleen Castro from the Fisheries Center, with technical support and guidance from several 溏心vlog免费B站 faculty and researchers..<\/p>\n


\nThis project is one of seven international initiatives run by the Coastal Resources Center and funded by USAID grants totaling about $8 million annually.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NARRAGANSETT, R.I. \u2013 April 25, 2011 \u2013 The Coastal Resources Center and the Fisheries Center at the 溏心vlog免费B站 have been awarded an $11.5 million grant from the United States Agency for International Development to support efforts by the government of Senegal to reform its fishing industry and promote sustainable fishing practices. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}