In the realm of economic and social augmentation, aquaculture plays a pivotal role in advancing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by increasing the advantages accessible to low-income and least-developed nations through marine resources. However, its efficacy in attaining these objectives faces obstacles, particularly concerning marginalized communities. This challenge is exacerbated when integration innovation or dissimilar technologies without a comprehensive grasp of socio-economic and bio-physical circumstances. Our research focused on the development of spiny lobster aquaculture, which has demonstrated efficacy as a prosperous and sustainable aquaculture endeavour for coastal communities situated in central and southern regions of Vietnam. Lobster farming exhibits distinct attributes that confer socio-economic benefits in comparison to the cultivation of other species. The technological processes involved can be made relatively uncomplicated, entailing the capture of naturally settling post-larval lobsters(pueruli) to serve as the seed for farming, following their production in floating sea cages or land-based tanks constructed from cost effective materials. As a result, spiny lobster farming emerges as an option characterized by its low technological requirements and low capital outlay for coastal communities.
We conducted fisher interviews (N=20) on the southern portion of the island of Eleuthera in The Bahamas. All subjects provided their informed consent for inclusion before they participated in the study. NVivo 13, a qualitative data analysis software, was used to analyse interview transcripts and a three-step process was used to identify codes, subcodes (categories) and themes. We highly argue that the success or failure of spiny lobster aquaculture developments are predicated on local acceptance, down stream support and willingness to adopt, which all are strongly influenced by the perceptions of the aquaculture activity help by the surrounding community stakeholders.