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Five Impact Areas

True resilience involves focusing on five key impact areas that coastal regions need to identify and analyze. This guide has helped our team establish essential practices for building resilience and aligning with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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  • 1 | Ecosystem Regeneration
  • 2 | Fisheries Management
  • 3 | Mariculture
  • 4 | Fishery Infrastructure
  • 5 | SMEs Business Incubator

Five Impact Areas

True resilience involves focusing on five key impact areas that coastal regions need to identify and analyze. This guide has helped our team establish essential practices for building resilience and aligning with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Defining our values.

Restoring and revitalizing marine habitats and species within an ecosystem that has been degraded or damaged due to human activities or natural events. Habitat of seagrass transforms from degradation to abundant,  seabed habitat is restored and mangrove forest protected.

Setting up a good governance. We begin by reforming regulations to increase conservation area and improve collaboration work between government and community fisheries. Transformations of safer gears and boats help fishers adopt better practices.

Diversifying livelihoods help fishers to make a living outside fishing. Fishers and coastal communities culture cockles and mussels for additional income. Mariculture brings more stability and better income than fishing. Fishers also have other alternatives in ecotourism.

Coastal structure is vital for community livelihood. To mitigate climate change and build resilience, this structure must be robust and enduring. Stronger and resilient structures to withstand climate change risk.

The SMEs business incubator helps small marine businesses and community fisheries groups develop new viable business. It lifts up the coastal economy.

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Ecosystem Regeneration

Ecosystem regeneration for habitats and species that has been degraded or damaged through several strategies: establishing fisheries refuges, implementing no-take and benthic management measures, managing vessels and gear, restoring stocks, and transitioning to open water non-fed mariculture. The regeneration is conducted for multiple habitats in nearshore, seagrass, coral and mangrove.

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Fisheries Management

Effective governance establishes policy, legal regulatory and administrative rules that support a sustainable fishery and marine ecosystem. Effectively regulate and oversee fisheries activities through collaborative and participatory process of regulatory decision-making among representatives of user-groups, fisherfolks, government agencies and research institutions.

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Mariculture

Mariculture of mussels, oysters, blood cockles, and other marine products, offers fishers an opportunity to transition away from wild capture fishing. This shift allows remaining fishers to enhance their catch and improve their livelihoods. When efficiently managed with clear market linkages and strict adherence to food safety requirements, mariculture can provide greater stability and potentially higher income than traditional fishing.

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Fishery Infrastructure

Strong and accessible coastal infrastructure to prevent product deterioration due to heat as adaptation to climate change and building resilience. Robust and resilient structures can withstand climate risks, protecting both workers and their families.

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SMEs Business Incubator

Cambodian newly developed SMEs with sustainable practices and create livelihood opportunities while reducing pressure of fishing, contributing to uplift communities well-being and long-term health of coastal ecosystems and communities.

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The Sustainable Coastal and Marine Fisheries platform is produced by The Lexicon with support from the Asian Development Bank. SCMF regenerates ecosystems, improves fisheries management and surveillance, and develops community businesses towards more sustainable fisheries. It develops sustainable resilient coastal and marine fisheries resources, resulting in recovered fish stocks and better coastal economy

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