Are specific characteristics/traits being targeted?
Unknown/not recorded
Purpose of Use
Basic subsistence (meeting day to day essential needs)
Additional Details (if available)
indigenous customary hunting; The landed catch potentially provided the community of Mabuiag with an average of 290g of dugong meat per person per day in both 1998 and 1999; The meat from most dugongs (92% in 1998 and 91% in 1999) was reportedly used for home consumption. Most of the remainder was used for funeral feasts;
What is the main end use for any living organisms, parts or products taken/extracted?
Local people (e.g., individuals, communities, co-operatives)
Is the use part of a strategy to generate conservation incentives, to finance conservation, or to improve tolerance/stewardship?
Unknown/not recorded
Is there evidence that the use is affecting the conservation status of the species? HIDE
Unknown/not recorded
Is there evidence that the use is affecting natural selection?
Unknown/not recorded
Is there evidence that the use is affecting poaching of illegal wildlife trade?
Unknown/not reported
Is there any evidence that this use of the species is having a knock-on effect on the status of non-target species
Unknown/not recorded
Unknown/not recorded
Details of assessment carried out
Two different modelling techniques suggest that current dugong harvest levels are unsustainable; but overharvest is difficult to prove empirically with the data available, and with so many other confounding influences on the population, especially the tendency of dugongs to undertake large-scale movements for reasons that are not well understood; In 2003, the Australian Minister of Environment instructed that the sustainability of the dugong fishery be addressed with high priority; management agency staff are working with traditional owners to develop a mutually-acceptable framework for sustainable dugong hunting.
Has a valuation of financial flows from this use at the site/national/international level been recorded
Has the use of the species been recorded as resulting in changes to human health in this record?
Unknown/not recorded
Has the species in use been noted as being of particular disease risk to humans?
Unknown/not recorded
Has the use of the species resulted in changes to animal welfare in this record?
Unknown/not recorded
Are there particular practices which have increased the risk to human or animal health or welfare in the use of this species?
Unknown/not recorded
Does the use of this species increase susceptibility to pathogen spread?
Unknown/not recorded
Unknown/not recorded
Strong community governance/institutions/rights for wildlife management
Absent
Supportive policy and legislative framework
Absent
Adequate capacity to implement and enforce governance arrangements
Absent
Good alignment of legal protections with local cultural values and traditional
Absent
Support from NGOs
Absent
Support from Government
Absent
High financial returns from use
Absent
Abundant population of target species
Absent
Biological characteristics of target species
Absent
Capacity building of community
Absent
Establishment and implementation of species and/or area management plan
Absent
Effective private sector approach engagement through certification
Absent
Good benefit-sharing mechanism
Absent
Good Market Strategies
Absent
Source Reference(s)
KWAN, D., MARSH, H., & DELEAN, S. (2006). Factors influencing the sustainability of customary dugong hunting by a remote indigenous community. Environmental Conservation, 33(2), 164-171. doi:10.1017/S0376892906002992
Fifty-seven per cent of adult males on the island participated in dugong hunting, but more than half the catch in each year was caught by only two hunters.
Is there any gender/age specificity in the various roles
Unknown/not recorded
How many of these local jobs accure to the following categories?
How many people outside the local area are employed
Is there any evidence of other economic benefits associated with this use beyond direct income and jobs