Indonesia is one of the largest exporters of groupers, both live and dead, as part of the reef
fish food trade. These fisheries sub-sector plays an important role in the livelihoods of fishing …

Small-scale fishers are often believed to receive marginal earnings for seafood relative to
other value-chain actors but proportionate incomes across different traded species are rarely …

This paper arises from a four-year Indonesian-German research cooperation on the
governance and management of Indonesian coastal and marine ecosystems. Project …

Patron-client systems are ubiquitous in small-scale fisheries and are thought to have an
important role on the way marine resources are exploited. With the aim of identifying key …

Harvesting has received most theoretical, empirical, and policy attention towards
understanding common-pool resource dilemmas. Yet, pre-harvesting and post-harvesting …

Coral reef structural form is widely considered a key factor with respect to the availability of
shelter and foraging spaces for fishes and invertebrates. However, anthropogenic stressors …

Assemblages of corals, sponges, foraminifera, sediment bacteria and sediment archaea
were assessed at two depths in the Spermonde Archipelago. Our goal was to assess to what …

We examine the benefits flowing from a coastal seascape through seafood trade to various
social groups in two distinct small-scale fishery case studies. A knowledge gap currently …

This article addresses the connections between value chain actors in the tropical-marine
small-scale fisheries of Zanzibar, Tanzania, to contribute to a better understanding of the …

Two challenges faced by fishers are access to loans and markets. They typically seek loans
to fulfill their daily needs and invest in fishing equipment to mitigate their income instability …