Fishers’ Knowledge on Marine Fisheries Management and Conservation
Fishers’ Knowledge on Marine Fisheries Management and Conservation
Date
2014
Authors
Shankar, S. Sabari
Anand, G. Ajay
Immanuel, Sheela
Vennila, A.
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Publisher
Society of Fisheries Technologists (India)Cochin
Abstract
Marine fishers play an important role in the
management of marine resources. Hence, there is a
need to analyse the fishers’ knowledge level in
relation to marine fisheries resource management
and conservation. The present study was undertaken
in selected fishing villages of Kanyakumari
district of Tamil Nadu. The ‘Teacher made test’ was
constructed and used for the assessment of fishers’
knowledge. More than 60% of the respondents had
medium level of knowledge on marine fisheries
management and conservation, marine policies and
regulatory measures and mariculture practices.
Fishers’ knowledge on marine parks and sanctuaries,
community based approach, oil spillage, installation
of artificial reefs, mesh size for catching
shrimps and catching of brood fishes was found to
be low. Fishers had medium level of knowledge on
issues like over exploitation, mangrove destruction,
marine pollution, and mesh size regulations,
mechanisation of boats, indiscriminate fishing methods
and fishing with nets of reduced mesh size.
These areas need to be taken into account for
enhancing the fishers’ knowledge level for increasing
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Keywords
Knowledge, fishers, management, conservation
Citation
Fishery Tech 51 (2) : 125 - 129