Local Ecological Knowledge and Scientific Data Reveal Overexploitation by Multigear Artisanal Fisheries in the Southwestern Atlantic

Local Ecological Knowledge and Scientific Data Reveal Overexploitation by Multigear Artisanal Fisheries in the Southwestern Atlantic

In the last decades, a number of studies based on historical records revealed the diversity loss in the oceans and human-induced changes to marine ecosystems. These studies have improved our understanding of the human impacts in the oceans. They also drew attention to the shifting baseline syndrome and the importance of assessing appropriate sources of data in order to build the most reliable e...

Unsustainability and Overexploitation in Fisheries

Integration of fishers’ ecological knowledge in fisheries biology and management. A proposal for the case of the artisanal coastal fisheries of Galicia (NW Spain)

The fisheries crisis of the last decades and the overexploitation of a great number of stocks have revealed that the scientific knowledge available about the dynamics of the marine ecosystems and needed for the management of the fisheries is inadequate. This problem is critical when the management of coastal ecosystems and artisanal fisheries is involved. These systems show a great complexity d...

Dynamic patterns of overexploitation in fisheries

Understanding overfishing and regulating fishing quotas is a major global challenge for the 21st Century both in terms of providing food for humankind and to preserve the oceans' ecosystems. However, fishing is a complex economic activity, affected not just by overfishing but also by such factors as pollution, technology, financial factors and more. For this reason, it is often difficult to sta...

Patterns in artisanal coral reef fisheries reveal best practices for monitoring and management

1 Fisheries Ecology Research Laboratory, Department of Biology, University of Hawai‘i, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, United States of America 2 Delaney Aquatic Consulting LLC, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, United States of America 3 Center for Oceans, Conservation International, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, United States of America 4 Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, Perth, Australia 5 Division of ...