Community-Based Fisheries Management - WWF Conservation Projects (sitios de interés)

Young women collect filamentous algae from the river for household consumption. Lao PDR. © WWF Greater Mekong / Roger Mollot

The project's aim is to support fishing communities in the development of alternative incomes and strengthen community-based fisheries management. This grant from Oxfam America will assist the project to analyze fishing incomes and develop alternative activities that will reduce the threat to freshwater biodiversity and raise awareness of the role of communities in the management of capture fisheries and conservation of freshwater biodiversity.

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