Ecology and Society: Factors influencing adaptive marine governance in a developing country context: a case-study of southern Kenya

Table 1. Priority ranking of the most important sources of environmental knowledge as perceived by fishers in Mombasa (n=70) and Diani–Chale (n=77).

	Kenya Fisheries Department	Elders	Local fishers	Independent observation	Fisher associations	Diani–Chale Management Trust	Research organizations	Kenya Wildlife Service

Priority index for all fishers	0.62	0.53	0.46	0.37	0.35	0.19	0.17	0.13

Note: The priority index is based on scores for incidence (how many fishers ranked it as important) and severity (how highly the issue was ranked), and ranges from 1—0, the most important to the least important.