Ecosystem and Geographic Scale of the Project

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2.2.2 Ecosystem and Geographic Scale of the Project

The SFMP will develop a nested governance system that meshes several ecosystem scales that encompass the diverse types of fisheries systems found in Ghana see Figure 4. The SFMP will focus first on a national effort to end overfishing and rebuild the small but food security-critical small pelagic fishery that generates broadly shared economic benefits to hundreds of thousands of people; and to recoup tens of thousands of metric tons of lost food supply. This complex of species, due to their essential role in the ecosystem and their wide- ranging migration, requires management at a national scale linked to regional Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem GCLME and Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea FCWCGG initiatives, and public participation that spans all four coastal regions. Once management efforts are underway for the small pelagic fisheries and in the second half of the project, the SFMP will also address the need for sub-national regional management of demersal fish stocks in an ecologically defined region between two major mangrove estuary habitats in the WR: to the west at the outlet of the Ankobra River along the shared border of Ellembelle and Nzema East Districts, and as far east as the Pra River within Shama District. The SFMP also will pilot community-based approaches to fisheries within the Ankobra River and the Pra River estuaries and associated mangroves that serve as essential fish habitat for demersals. Within these ecosystems are priority fish landing sites such as Axim and Anlo Beach Shama town that will be areas of concentration for stakeholder engagement and livelihoods and value chain improvements. Additional fish landing sites engaging more intensively in the SFMP for child labor, community resilience and diversified livelihood activities in the CR include Elmina, Moree, Apam and Winneba. In discussions with WARFP, this multi-tiered governance approach is consistent with and will be coordinated with WARFP’s current community-based fisheries management units. Figure 4. SFMP applied management activity areas 16

2.3 Performance and Context Indicator Summary