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Patrick McConney and others have engaged in participatory action research into MPA governance in Belize, Grenada, Jamaica, St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines. Fishers see MPAs as both very beneficial in the long run but quite threatening to their livelihoods and well-being in the short to medium term. Fisher organisations are increasingly taking political collective action to ensure that they are not marginalised by tourism-oriented biodiversity conservation. They are working with both governmental and non-governmental partners to maintain fisheries value chains, particularly at the local level, and avoid the situation of increasing fish imports substituting for sustainable local catch.
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