Matching Fishers' Knowledge and Landing Data to Overcome Data Missing in Small-Scale Fisheries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In small-scale fishery, information provided by fishers has been useful to complement current and past lack of knowledge on species and environment.

Methodology

Through interviews, 82 fishers from the largest fishing communities on the north and south borders of a Brazilian northeastern coastal state provided estimates of the catch per unit effort (CPUE) and rank of species abundance of their main target fishes for three time points: current year (2013 at the time of the research), 10, and 20 years past. This information was contrasted to other available data sources: scientific sampling of fish landing (2013), governmental statistics (2003), and information provided by expert fishers (1993), respectively.

Principal findings

Fishers were more accurate when

SUBMITTER: Damasio Lde M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4503677 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature