期刊名称：Fisheries Centre Research Reports / University of British Columbia
印刷版ISSN：1198-6727
出版年度：2007
卷号：15
出版社：University of British Columbia
摘要：Mozambique is one of the poorest countries in the world; however, it is rich in marine resources. This
study gives an overview of Mozambique¡¯s marine fishing history from the colonial period to the present,
including how fishing was affected by the country¡¯s 16-year civil war. Since the 1950s, when the
compilation of global fisheries data by FAO began, Mozambique has reported primarily industrial catches
and has vastly under-reported the nation¡¯s small-scale fishing sector due to lack of resources and civil
strife. This study reconstructs small-scale catches, industrial catches, and discards, for the 1950-2004
period. Overall, small-scale catches may account for an average of 87% of Mozambique¡¯s national marine
fisheries landings. Since 2000, the fishing sector as a whole has landed between 115,000 and 140,000
tonnes per year, which is 5.5 times greater than the statistics reported by FAO based on country reports.
Though there is a large degree of uncertainty with this work, the assumptions made herein are better than
the alternative, i.e., that the small-scale sector has no landings.
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