Fishing Communities
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Coastal waters, rivers, coral reefs, lagoons, and inlets maintain ecosystems and provide habitat for fish, invertebrates, marine mammals, corals, and plants. They also feed and create revenue for many local communities. Despite the existence of longstanding traditions to sustain local fisheries, there are many sites in which modern fishing practices, overfishing, environmental degradation, and development are imposing unprecedented pressure on the ecosystems. These pressures threaten the biological functions these aquatic systems perform, the wildlife they support, and the communities they nourish.
In fishing villages from the Pacific to the Caribbean, WCS field staff are working to engage local communities in conservation initiatives, management plans, and ecotourism planning. They train local people to collect data, survey land and sea sites, patrol beaches, and enforce the laws and traditions that help sustain marine resources. Our conservationists pinpoint environmental threats, establish marine protected areas, raise awareness, support education programs through local universities, and advise on national and local policies, such as the rezoning of Indonesia's Karimunjawa National Park.
From the Newsroom
With support from the Summit Foundation, WCS conservationists and their local and international partners have introduced a new system of managed access to the Glover's Reef Marine Reserve’s conch fishery.
When local fishers in Kia Island opened a protected coral reef to fishing for a short-term community fundraising effort, the effects of the harvest bore long-term consequences for the reef's health.
A newly released study finds that people are increasingly consuming marine mammals—including some very rare species, like the Fraser’s dolphin—in more than 100 countries around the world.
A WCS marine project to reduce bycatch in Kenya and Curacao through a low-cost, low-tech fish trap design takes the top honor in a contest sponsored by Rare, in partnership with National Geographic.
Researchers find that fishery closures in Belize’s Glover’s Reef help barracudas, groupers, and other predatory fish recover while the parrotfish and other herbivores essential for reef recovery still need more protection.
As global leaders convene in Durban, South Africa to tackle climate change, WCS coral reef fisheries expert Dr. Tim McClanahan and his colleague Dr. Joshua Cinner urge action on behalf of the world’s fishing communities dependent upon the increasingly threatened bounty of warming tropical seas.
A new study identifies a better way to determine if coral ecosystems are in danger of collapse.
WCS conservationists help Belize develop a management program to restore the health of both fisheries and the coral reef ecosystems at its Glover’s Reef and Port Honduras Marine Reserves.
An archaeological study by a WCS marine researcher in Kenya compares fish
communities from modern times with those from the Middle Ages. The scientist finds that
the modern fish are overwhelmingly smaller, lower on the food chain, and
shorter-lived.
A long-term WCS study off the Kenyan coast finds overfishing in coral ecosystems can stunt the growth of reefs.
A 12-year study off the coast of
Kenya deconstructs old notions of how fishery closures affect local economies. Hint: They help them.
A new study says that banning certain types of fishing gear can help save coral reefs from the damaging effects of climate change, by protecting key fish populations that help stressed reefs recover.
WCS applauds the launching of the Coral Triangle Initiative at a summit in Indonesia. The leaders of six nations will work together to save this marine biodiversity jewel.
WCS researchers find that coral reefs next to middle class communities in East Africa have far fewer fish than the reefs in either poor or affluent communities.