{"id":28343,"date":"2022-07-06T12:45:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T11:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/?p=28343"},"modified":"2022-07-06T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T15:11:00","slug":"shrimps-return-to-tsimipaika-bay-after-several-years-of-disappearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/en\/shrimps-return-to-tsimipaika-bay-after-several-years-of-disappearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrimp return to the locally managed bay in northern Madagascar"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Nantenaina Ardo NIRISOA, Site Leader (Ambanja, Tsimipaika Bay, Madagascar).<\/span><\/p>\n

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More than seven years ago, when I was working as a fisheries and aquaculture technician in Ambanja in Madagascar\u2019s northwest, I set up a network of fisheries data collectors. I had many discussions with the data collectors in Tsimipaika Bay, who reported the disappearance of shrimp and said fishers no longer caught any. <\/span><\/p>\n

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A small-scale fisher out to catch shrimps from the Tsimipaika Bay. | Credits: Nantenaina Ardo NIRISOA, Blue ventures<\/div><\/div>
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A bag of shrimps caught from the Tsimipaika Bay by a small-scale fisher. | Credits: Nantenaina Ardo NIRISOA, Blue ventures<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

The situation has recently changed, with local fishers catching shrimp again and fishers coming from further afield to fish in Tsimipaika Bay. The reappearance of shrimps is a good sign that community-led conservation efforts around sustainable fisheries and mangrove management are working.<\/span><\/p>\n