Critical analysis of the governance of the Sainte Luce Locally Managed Marine Area (LMMA), southeast Madagascar

• DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2019.103691
• Publication Date: 2019-10-10T13:37:26Z
• Authors: Stephen Long; Grace Thurlow; Peter J.S. Jones; Andrew Turner; Sylvestre M. Rand...; Tom Gammage; Jessica Savage; Jeremie R. Ndriam...
• Keywords: Marine conservation; Natural Resource Management; Language Change; Marine protected area

The Marine Protected Area Governance (MPAG) framework is applied to critically assess the governance of Sainte Luce Locally Managed (LMMA), southeast Madagascar. Madagascar experiences rapid population growth, widespread poverty, corruption and political instability, which hinders natural resource governance. Community-based management (CBNRM) has been repeatedly employed circumvent lack state capacity. This includes LMMA model, rapidly proliferated, represented by MIHARI, Madagascar's network. lobster fishing primary source income for households in impoverished community Luce, one key landing sites regional export industry. However, fishers, industry actors available data suggest a significant decline local stocks, likely due over-exploitation driven poverty migration. In 2013, SEED UK NGO, worked establish community-based fishery setting up committee, introduced periodic no take zone (NTZ). Despite community's efforts some achievements, efficacy limited. To date, limited support engagement throughout value chain have hampered effective study reinforces finding that resilient relies on diversity incentives they collectively employ. Here elsewhere, there limit what can be achieved bottom-up approaches isolation. Resilient marine resources improving capacity community, state, NGO govern resources.