Fishers' knowledge on the coast of Brazil.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although fishers' knowledge has been recently considered into management programmes, there is still the need to establish a better understanding of fishers' perceptions and cognition. Fishers can provide novel information on the biology and ecology of species, which can potentially be used in the management of fisheries. The knowledge fishers have and how they classify nature is empirically based. It is common, for example, to observe that fishers' taxonomy is often represented by the generic level, one of the hierarchical categories of folk classification that is somewhat analogous to the Linnean genus, as it groups organisms of a higher rank than the folk species.In this study we compiled the knowledge fishers have on local fish, such as their folk names, diet and habi

SUBMITTER: Begossi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4888665 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature