Music Ten thousands of households in the Irrardy Delta region depend on fishing for their life and there's one species in particular that is very important, it's extremely commercially valuable, it's called the Hilshershad. Hilsher is over exploited throughout its range, it's overfished in the sea and it's overfished in land. The aim of this project was to demonstrate how incentive-based fisheries management could help to address the dual challenges of biodiversity, loss and poverty in Myanmar. The project is a partnership between IID, the Myanmar Government Department of Fisheries, the University of Yangon, World Fish and also a local NGO called N.A.G. the Network Activities Group. All of those partners have been completely crucial to this research. The project focus is to work with the small-scale fisher from the IID Delta who are fishing in the freshwater zone, trying to solve the problems of overfishing the Yang-Herser fish. We spoke to fishing households and asked them about their livelihoods, asked them about their needs, and we simply couldn't have done that without a local organisation like N.A.G. who noted region that understand the politics. The project is designed to understand their livelihoods along with the biology of the fish and also the equal. The project is designed to understand their livelihoods along with the biology of the fish and also the ecology system nearby, so that we can design the incentive programs for them to abide the law. What we have proposed is that during these times when fishing is restricted, licensed fishers are compensated for income that is foregone. In 2020, we finalised our set of recommendations for how the incentive scheme could look. We put those together in a white paper for regional and central government. There is a huge export market for Hilsho. The government is very aware of its value commercially, but unfortunately because the artisanal fishing sector is so informal, it is basically invisible. We were able to go to government and speak their language and make the business case and show that the economic benefits of an incentive scheme could be up to nine times more than the costs. We spoke to central government about how this financing mechanism could look and our partners' world fishers so travelled to the Delta region to speak with regional government parliamentarians and local department fisheries officials. The government has been able to provide the best for the fish and the local government, and the government has been able to provide the best for the fish and the local government. Representatives from local government and from fishing communities have voiced support for many of our suggested reforms. Although COVID-19 and recent political events have created uncertainties in Myanmar, we are really hopeful that there is enough local ownership before progress to continue. Thank you for watching.