Assessment of Yawri Bay Marine Protected Area Vulnerability to Climate Change in Sierra Leone

•Artisanal Sector is the main source of protein food for 80% of local population, fetching over 120,00mt/Yr Major Fishing Grounds in Coastal Sierra Leone • Major fishing Grounds are Within rivers and bays and offshore in the Northern and Southern Continental Shelf Background to the Study • Overcapitalization from the open access fisheries regime and illegal destructive fishing in sensitive coastal. [...] Study objectives • The main objective of this research is to evaluate the causes and impacts of climatic variation on fishing communities in and around the Yawri Bay, through vulnerability assessment and to identify challenges for the sustainability of MPA management initiatives including alternative livelihood supports • We present details of the MPA establishment process and the challenges as le. [...] Assumptions for Data Collection • We have made the following important assumptions: • That the sampling was representative of the entire Yawri Bay Communities- However each region is differently endowed and fishing is skewed to a few Regions • Sampling followed a stratified purposive non-probability sampling technique • There will be willingness of respondents for questions • MPAs are some form of. [...] Fishers have started controlling illegal fishing in their communities Modeling of Alternatives on Resource Status • Although there in an improving contextual variable, the awareness on exogenous factors is low, particularly coastal erosions which inundates fishing communities With the loss of fishing input and livelihoods asset change • This has affected the incentives of resource users to coopera. [...] This presents the case of a fairly good knowledge of the resource users on the status of the resource with some degree of stakeholder interaction Belief Degrees and evaluation Grades • The high value of stakeholder indifference on the modeling of belief degrees on resource status is a concern and may be a deliberate incentive for the practice of illegal fishing practices • When fisheries become in.