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Kitolelei S, Soderberg A, Qaqara N, Prakash SS, Tuiono M, Veitayaki J, Piovano S. Conservation status and cultural values of sea turtles leading to (un)written parallel management systems in Fiji. Ambio 2022; 51:2431-2444. [PMID: 35932424 PMCID: PMC9584005 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-022-01766-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2022] [Revised: 05/30/2022] [Accepted: 07/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
Globally and locally, conservationists and scientists work to inform policy makers to help recovery of endangered sea turtle populations. In Fiji, in the South Pacific, sea turtles are protected by the national legislation because of their conservation status, and are also a customary iTaukei resource. Centered on our interview-based study at Qoma and Denimanu villages, parallel management systems coexist, where both the (written) national legislation and the (unwritten) customary iTaukei rules determine the time and the quantity of sea turtle harvest. In addition, non-governmental organizations and academic institutions may influence local sea turtle management by providing scientific awareness and helping divert the economic values from the meat to the living animal. We suggest that the government and non-governmental organizations emphasize community management of sea turtles, and work alongside the customary chiefs and their fishing clans to understand the real harvest (eventually by allowing quotas) and to monitor the recovery of South Pacific sea turtles in Fijian waters.
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Affiliation(s)
- Salanieta Kitolelei
- School of Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Oceans and Natural Sciences (SAGEONS), The University of the South Pacific, Laucala Bay, Private Mail Bag, Suva, Fiji
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- School of Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Oceans and Natural Sciences (SAGEONS), The University of the South Pacific, Laucala Bay, Private Mail Bag, Suva, Fiji
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- School of Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Oceans and Natural Sciences (SAGEONS), The University of the South Pacific, Laucala Bay, Private Mail Bag, Suva, Fiji
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- School of Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Oceans and Natural Sciences (SAGEONS), The University of the South Pacific, Laucala Bay, Private Mail Bag, Suva, Fiji
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- School of Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Oceans and Natural Sciences (SAGEONS), The University of the South Pacific, Laucala Bay, Private Mail Bag, Suva, Fiji
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- School of Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Oceans and Natural Sciences (SAGEONS), The University of the South Pacific, Laucala Bay, Private Mail Bag, Suva, Fiji
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- School of Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Oceans and Natural Sciences (SAGEONS), The University of the South Pacific, Laucala Bay, Private Mail Bag, Suva, Fiji
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Fache E, Piovano S, Soderberg A, Tuiono M, Riera L, David G, Kowasch M, Pauwels S, Breckwoldt A, Carrière SM, Sabinot C. "Draw the sea…": Children's representations of ocean connectivity in Fiji and New Caledonia. Ambio 2022; 51:2445-2458. [PMID: 36149595 PMCID: PMC9584002 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-022-01777-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2021] [Revised: 06/17/2022] [Accepted: 08/01/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
In the South Pacific region, marine territories and resources play a crucial role for local communities. Children engage with these territories and resources from an early age onwards. As the next ocean stewards, they are a stakeholder group whose understandings of ocean connectivity and fisheries should be given serious consideration in decision-making processes towards the sustainable use and management of coastal seas. This paper analyses 290 children's drawings from Fiji and New Caledonia, created in 2019 in spontaneous response to the instruction: "Draw the sea and what you and others do in the sea". Exploring the webs of connections with and within the sea revealed by these children's drawings and their own interpretations leads us to discuss children's representations of the sea: (1) beyond a land-sea compartmentation, (2) as a locus of both exploitation and conservation of marine life, and (3) as a 'place-full' space connecting human and more-than-human realms.
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- Elodie Fache
- SENS, IRD, CIRAD, Univ Paul Valery Montpellier 3, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- School of Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Ocean and Natural Sciences (SAGEONS), The University of the South Pacific, Laucala Bay Road, Private Mail Bag, Suva, Fiji
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- School of Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Ocean and Natural Sciences (SAGEONS), The University of the South Pacific, Laucala Bay Road, Private Mail Bag, Suva, Fiji
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- School of Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Ocean and Natural Sciences (SAGEONS), The University of the South Pacific, Laucala Bay Road, Private Mail Bag, Suva, Fiji
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- SENS, IRD, CIRAD, Univ Paul Valery Montpellier 3, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Fahrenheitstraße 6, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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- UMR ESPACE-DEV, Univ Montpellier, IRD, Univ Antilles, Univ Avignon-Pays de Vaucluse, Univ Guyane, Univ La Réunion, Univ Nouvelle-Calédonie, Montpellier, France
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- Institute of Secondary Teacher Education, University College of Teacher Education Styria, Hasnerplatz 12, 8010 Graz, Austria
- Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Hamar, Norway
- UMR ESPACE-DEV, Univ Montpellier, IRD, Univ Antilles, Univ Avignon-Pays de Vaucluse, Univ Guyane, Univ La Réunion, Univ Nouvelle-Calédonie, Montpellier, France
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, EHESS, CREDO (UMR 7308), Labex Corail, Marseille, France
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- Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Fahrenheitstraße 6, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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- SENS, IRD, CIRAD, Univ Paul Valery Montpellier 3, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- UMR ESPACE-DEV, Univ Montpellier, IRD, Univ Antilles, Univ Avignon-Pays de Vaucluse, Univ Guyane, Univ La Réunion, Univ Nouvelle-Calédonie, Montpellier, France
- Centre IRD Anse Vata, BPA5, 98848 Nouméa Cedex, Nouvelle-Calédonie
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