Incorporation of the Ecosystem Value Chain as a new element in Senegal’s fishery

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1.5.1.3 Assessing and managing the response of stocks to climate change in Senegal: USAIDCOMFISH

will launch a fishery management strategy which includes identifying and managing the effects of climate change on landings. This work will relate the productivity of stocks their capacity to produce fish to independent changes in climate and effort. Results will support DPM the designated fisheries management authority to target and respond to a dynamic objective. USAIDCOMFISH will address these issues with partners including CRODT, IUPA, and technical teams at DPM. Work on the effects of climate change on landings will be carried out at the same time as work on the evaluation of vulnerability and the planning of adaptation to reduce the impacts of climate change on coastal communities, originally visualized as USAIDCOMFISH’s only work on climate change and fisheries.

1.1.6 Incorporation of the Ecosystem Value Chain as a new element in Senegal’s fishery

management system: USAIDCOMFISH will also throw light on the some hitherto less well studied but very important aspects of sustainable management in Senegal by identifying a new and more complete “ecosystematic value chain”. This will start with a traditional analysis of value chains for COMFISH’s priority species, including additionally changes in the production of CO 2 in artisanal and industrial fisheries; and losses of information and power - specifically of women’s power - at each link in the value chain. A one off “stand by” itself study will be carried out based on results of a seminal unpublished and incomplete study by IDEE Casamance and SIK 4 which concluded that 1.0Kg of shrimp taken by means of artisanal fishing produced only 14 of the Carbon Dioxide which was produced if the same amount of shrimp are taken by industrial fishing. Unfortunately the study did not fully refer to the total amount of fin fish and its value and importance: fin fish provide over 90 of all industrial landings, while the artisanal shrimp are taken with negligible amount of fin fish. The great majority of finfish caught in the industrial fishery is now believed to be used for human consumption in Senegal so that it is necessary to include the amount of protein added along the artisanal and industrial pathways in the study: this will provide a more comprehensive way of estimating the importance of industrial landings as a source of protein. Costs and benefits from managing the fishery so as to produce more fin fish and protein can then be objectively balanced with the benefits from managing the fishery for shrimp only. Until this is done DPM cannot identify the appropriate balance between artisanal and industrial boats in the fishery. Therefore USAIDCOMFISH will repeat the study using the same team to confirm the work in a more comprehensive manner. COMFISH will also ensure that a team of Senegalese scientists will learn to use the software and the full methodology which the previous team did not transfer successfully to Senegal. This will ensure that DPM will have at its disposal a team who can periodically update the estimates of total CO 2 pollution which will allow it to manage the ecological footprint of Senegalese fisheries, as one option in its set if fishery management capabilities. This may be a particularly important option for managing the correct balance of artisanal and industrial boats in the fishery. 4 See Project Management Section for details about these new partners. 7

1.1.7 Implementation in Senegal of a fully sustainable fisheries management strategy: