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Participatory video (PV) is used to explore octopus management in depth, document success, challenges or traditional knowledge of the octopus fishery; and monitor changes in attitude, knowledge or yield over time.

Trainees, many of whom have never handled film-making equipment, are trained in the basic techniques, decide the content of the film and work together to design the storyboard.

The resulting film is a visual output that is used to share lessons and experiences about octopus management and that builds on the oral traditions of local fishing communities in a language and terminology that is accessible to them. The aim is not to produce perfect cinematography but to produce a community product and communicate octopus management issues and options to a wider groups of stakeholders including new villages.

This video illustrates part of the process, and is part of an ongoing project facilitated by Mwambao Coastal Community Network in Pemba, Zanzibar, Tanzania. The project introduces octopus management to artisanal fisher communities as an entry point to collaborative fisheries management.