- Often, poverty alleviation in fisheries and coastal communities requires strategies that are inherently in conflict. As you seek to reduce poverty, you risk aggravating it. As you aim to develop a fishery, you may undermine its basis.
- Poor fishers may have no other alternative than to continue their environmental destruction. If you do not fish, you starve. If you fish you ruin the resource and then starve.
Consequently:
- Poverty may be both a cause and an effect of unsustainable fisheries (THE VICIOUS CIRCLE).
- Poverty alleviation must occur within safe ecological limits
- Development and management must go hand in hand and reinforce each other (THE GOOD CIRCLE).
- Poverty alleviation is a “wicked problem” (Rittel and Webber 1973).
- Poverty alleviation is basically a governance issue; it has no easy, technical solution.
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