Collaborative engagement of local and traditional knowledge and science in marine environments: a review

TF Thornton, AM Scheer - Ecology and Society, 2012 - JSTOR
Local and traditional ecological knowledge (LTK) is increasingly recognized as an important
component of scientific research, conservation, and resource management. Especially …

Beyond fishermen's tales: contributions of fishers' local ecological knowledge to fish ecology and fisheries management

RAM Silvano, J Valbo-Jørgensen - Environment, Development and …, 2008 - Springer
Studies investigating the local ecological knowledge (LEK) held by fishermen about the
fishing resources have indicated that fishermen's LEK may have the potential to improve …

Incorporating fishermen's local knowledge and behavior into geographical information systems (GIS) for designing marine protected areas in Oceania

S Aswani, M Lauer - Human organization, 2006 - meridian.allenpress.com
Drawing on our experience in establishing marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Roviana
and Vonavona Lagoons, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, this paper shows how a …

Lessons from integrating fishers of arapaima in small-scale fisheries management at the Mamirauá Reserve, Amazon

L Castello, JP Viana, G Watkins… - Environmental …, 2009 - Springer
Fishers and small-scale fisheries worldwide have been marginalized historically. Now it is
clear that integrating fishers in management processes is key to resource conservation, but it …

[HTML][HTML] Fishermen's local ecological knowledge on Southeastern Brazilian coastal fishes: contributions to research, conservation, and management

RAM Silvano, A Begossi - Neotropical Ichthyology, 2012 - SciELO Brasil
We analyzed fishermen's local ecological knowledge (LEK) about the feeding habits, trophic
interactions, habitats, fishing grounds, migration, and reproduction of nine coastal fishes in …

When does this fish spawn? Fishermen's local knowledge of migration and reproduction of Brazilian coastal fishes

RAM Silvano, PFL MacCord, RV Lima… - Environmental Biology of …, 2006 - Springer
Fishermen's local knowledge of fishing resources may be an important source of information
to improve artisanal tropical fisheries management, such as those found in Brazil, where …

Fishers' knowledge identifies environmental changes and fish abundance trends in impounded tropical rivers

G Hallwass, PF Lopes, AA Juras… - Ecological …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The long‐term impacts of large hydroelectric dams on small‐scale fisheries in tropical rivers
are poorly known. A promising way to investigate such impacts is to compare and integrate …

Ethnozoology in Brazil: current status and perspectives

RRN Alves, WMS Souto - Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine, 2011 - Springer
Ancient connections between animals and human are seen in cultures throughout the world
in multiple forms of interaction with the local fauna that form the core of Ethnozoology …

Fish behaviour from fishers' knowledge: the case study of tropical tuna around drifting fish aggregating devices (DFADs)

G Moreno, L Dagorn, G Sancho… - Canadian Journal of …, 2007 - cdnsciencepub.com
La pêche thonière tropicale à la senne coulissante est l'une des pêches commerciales les
plus avancées technologiquement au monde. Le but de notre travail est d'utiliser les …

Fisher knowledge as expert system: A case from the longline fishery of Grenada, the Eastern Caribbean

S Grant, F Berkes - Fisheries Research, 2007 - Elsevier
We investigated a fisher knowledge generation process in the longline fishery for large
pelagic fish in Gouyave, Grenada, using techniques of participant observation, interviews …