Regional fisheries dynamics of the of this exceptional richness of life is being threatened SWIO and their importance to the by overexploitation (especially by overfishing and IUU fishing), habitat degradation, and global heating.33 blue economy Since the 1980s, marine capture production in the waters of the WIO has steadily increased, accounting The inception of the concept of blue economy, as fo. [...] The small-scale fleet are responsible for the greater proportion of average annual tuna catches (56%), In the SWIO region, the fishing industry is an integral including 93% of the neritic tuna catch, and 27% of the pillar of the blue economy, and more broadly of deep catch of tropical tuna (yellowfin, skipjack, bigeye).40,41 importance to coastal communities who have relied The main catch, however. [...] bound together the vicinity of the port as a result of its construction.193 by explicit common values and a shared aspiration Fishers in the Lamu area have already complained of a to open up the seas of plenty through investment reduction in catch, which they believe is directly linked in the blue economy”.187 Likewise, at the “Seminar to the construction and presence of the port.194 on Blue Econo. [...] The ambitious project has been valued the coastal town of Shimoni, operating under a local at US$10 billion and sought to transform the country name of Huawen Food (Kenya) Limited and focussing into a major hub of maritime transport and logistics on the processing of anchovies.215 The processed through the construction of the port and associated fish will reportedly be shipped to China and used fo. [...] The case studies focus on The previous section has outlined both the material tuna vessels that operate predominantly in the high and discursive elements of the BRI, and how it seas of the SWIO and Tanzania, and non-tuna vessels pertains to, and enables, the presence of the Chinese operating in the coastal waters of Mozambique, a DWF in the SWIO.
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