Understanding spearfishing in a coral reef fishery: Fishers' opportunities, constraints, and decision-making.

ABSTRACT: Social and ecological systems come together during the act of fishing. However, we often lack a deep understanding of the fishing process, despite its importance for understanding and managing fisheries. A quantitative, mechanistic understanding of the opportunities fishers encounter, the constraints they face, and how they make decisions within the context of opportunities and constraints will enhance the design of fisheries management strategies to meet linked ecological and social objectives and will improve scientific capacity to predict impacts of different strategies. We examined the case of spearfishing in a Caribbean coral reef fishery. We mounted cameras on fishers' spearguns to observe the fish they encountered, what limited their ability to catch fish, and how they made decision

SUBMITTER: Pavlowich T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5531497 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature