International Journal of Marine Science, 2024, Vol.14, No.3, 204-217 http://www.aquapublisher.com/index.php/ijms 204 Research Report Open Access Sustainable Management of Northeastern Madagascar Halieutic Resources Henri Joël Jao 1 , Landy Amelie Soambola 1, Roger 1, Tsihoboto Roandrianasolo Marcellin2 1 Faculté des Sciences, Université d’Antsiranana, 201 Antsiranana, Madagascar 2 Time+Tide Foundation, Madagascar Corresponding author: henrijoelj@gmail.com International Journal of Marine Science, 2024, Vol.14, No.3, doi: 10.5376/ijms.2024.14.0025 Received: 24 May., 2024 Accepted: 30 Jun., 2024 Published: 15 Jul., 2024 Copyright © 2024 Jao, Soambola, Roger, and Marcellin, This is an open access article published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Preferred citation for this article: Jao H.J., Soambola L.A., Roger, and Marcellin T.R., 2024, Sustainable management of northeastern madagascar halieutic resources, International Journal of Marine Science, 14(3): 204-217 (doi: 10.5376/ijms.2024.14.0025) Abstract This present study analyses the management of fishery resources to ensure their sustainability and rational exploitation in fishing villages of the Loky-Manambato marine protected area (LM-MPA), which are located in Vohemar district and SAVA region of the northeastern coast of Madagascar. Based on local surveys and research in rural villages of LM-MPA, this research reveals a strong potential for fishery resources in this area. The artisanal fishing plays a vital role as main source of income for the surrounding fishermen community rural area village residents and contributes to poverty reduction. The number of fishermen is increasing and fishing techniques continue to evolve over time in the LM-MPA villages. Different types of fishery resources, fishing gear and catching methods are exploited within the LM-MPA. However, the practice of new, destructive fishing techniques is accentuating the reduction in fishery products and threatening the local mangrove environment. It is therefore important to educate fishermen to stop using this detrimental fishing technique to ensure the sustainability of fishery resource. The sustainable management and closure as solution to ensure an increase in fishermen’s catch yields and to protect the environmental resource are investigated. Effective improvement measures are recommended. Keywords Sustainable management; Fishery resources; Loky-Manambato (LM) marine protected area (MPA); Northeastern Madagascar 1 Introduction The fishing sector is one of Malagasy economy pillars like in many African coasts. The fishing remains a main economic activity (Henderson et al., 2008; Akhilesh et al., 2011; Ontomwa et al., 2019) thanks to the continental shelf rich in marine biodiversity. The fishing activity constitutes an important income source to Figureht against poverty and to supply population of animal origin proteins (Henderson et al., 2008; MPRH, 2012; Gerami and Dastbaz, 2013; Beedessee et al., 2015; Gore et al., 2019; Obiero MO et al., 2019). However, under demographic pressure on coastal zones, withdrawals from resources have exceeded the capacity to renew stocks. Therefore, most of marine natural resources (Akhilesh et al., 2011; Fischer et al., 2012; Davis, 2022) are threatened by overexploitation and deterioration of environmental conditions (Badjeck et al, 2011). Thus, the fishery products are reduced and one finds certain species scarcity (Jaquemet, 2024). The main reasons of that economic issue are insufficient resources for coastal surveillance and the climate change (Badjeck et al., 2011; Wu, 2024). Protection directive closures (MPRH, 2012; IUCN, 2014; National Assembly, 2015; Kaaya, 2019; Chauveau, 2024) are needed to preserve environmental halieutic resources (FAO, 2009) notably to help Madagascar coastal regions to meet their needs through fishing, processing and the sale of fishery products. Hence, relevant halieutic resource management closes and directives justified by the existence of protected areas (FAPBM, 2014) are required for certain types of fisheries. The present research work objective is to ensure the sustainable and rational exploitation of fishery resources by ensuring an increase in catch yields of fishermen in the Loky-Manambato marine protected area (LM-MPA) (FAPBM, 2014). The artisanal passive engine-based fishing has existed for a long time in the LM-MPA villages. The local authority administrator is facing up to problems relating to the difficulty of respecting the regulations in force and the overexploitation of fishery resources. Therefore, the fishing products quality and quantity are reduced. With the aim of safeguarding the marine environment and managing existing aquatic halieutic resources, this work provides analyzes on the current management mode while subsequently
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