Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork, this paper attends to the persistent use of Destructive Fishing Gear (DFG) in a Marine Protected Area (MPA) in southeastern Tanzania. Based on participant observation, document analysis, in-depth interviews and focus group discussions conducted with villagers, I argue that the MPA has failed to eliminate the use of DFG because of its inability to address the historically-embedded political, economic, and sociocultural dimensions of DFG use in the inshore fishery. I contend that pre-existing and conservation-induced conditions of poverty drive the continued use of DFG inside the MPA. Such circumstances are framed by colonial and post-independence state-level development policies. They are also textured by breakdowns in customary marine tenure practices, changing beliefs about which types of fishing gear villagers consider to be traditional, and community-defined moral rights to fish for the fulfilment of basic material needs. I maintain that MPAs must take into account the anthropological complexities of poverty if they are to be effective.

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保护贫困：在坦桑尼亚海洋保护区使用破坏性捕鱼具

从人种学的田野调查中得出的结论，本文探讨了在坦桑尼亚东南部的海洋保护区（MPA）中持续使用破坏性捕鱼具（DFG）的情况。根据参与者的观察，文档分析，深入的采访以及与村民进行的焦点小组讨论，我认为MPA无法消除DFG的使用，因为它无法解决历史悠久的政治，经济和社会文化方面的问题。 DFG在近海渔业中的使用。我认为，现有的和由保护引起的贫困状况推动了在MPA中继续使用DFG。这种情况受殖民地和独立后的国家级发展政策的限制。习惯性的海洋使用权惯例的崩溃也对它们造成了影响，关于哪种类型的渔具村民认为是传统的以及社区定义的满足基本物质需求的渔业精神权利的观念不断变化。我认为，MPA要想发挥作用，就必须考虑到贫困的人类学复杂性。