Keeping Food on the Table: Human Responses and Changing Coastal Fisheries in Solomon Islands.

ABSTRACT: Globally the majority of commercial fisheries have experienced dramatic declines in stock and catch. Likewise, projections for many subsistence fisheries in the tropics indicate a dramatic decline is looming in the coming decades. In the Pacific Islands coastal fisheries provide basic subsistence needs for millions of people. A decline in fish catch would therefore have profound impacts on the health and livelihoods of these coastal communities. Given the decrease in local catch rates reported for many coastal communities in the Pacific, it is important to understand if fishers have responded to ecological change (either by expanding their fishing range and/or increasing their fishing effort), and if so, to evaluate the costs or benefits of these responses. We compare data from fish catche

SUBMITTER: Albert S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4497618 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature