In October 2014 USAID/Ghana awarded CRC/URI a five year cooperative agreement to lead the Sustainable Fisheries Management Project (SFMP). This project has now ended, but its legacy lives in the form of better management, stronger communities, and lasting partnerships. The goal of the project was to rebuild targeted marine fish stocks that have seen major declines in landings over the last decade, particularly the small pelagic fisheries that are important for food security and are the mainstay of the small-scale fishing sector. Please search our Publications to find out about the great work completed by USAID SFMP.
CRC leads a consortium of partners tasked with an integrated suite of activities including:
1. Improved legal enabling conditions for implementing co-management, use rights, capacity and effort-reduction strategies;
2. Improved information systems and science-informed decision-making, and
3. Increased constituencies that provides the political will and public support necessary to make the hard choices and changed behavior needed to rebuild Ghana’s marine fisheries sector.
4. These components feed into applied management initiatives for several targeted fisheries ecosystems.
For more information about this project, contact Brian Crawford at bcrawford@uri.edu or Don Robadue at robadue@uri.edu