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Local ecological knowledge and practical fisheries management in the tropics: A policy brief

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  • Wilson, Douglas Clyde
  • Raakjær, Jesper
  • Degnbol, Poul

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This policy brief is a summary product of seven case studies examining the integration of local ecological knowledge in fisheries management. Each case began with a series of in-depth interviews with local fishers, after which their answers were examined using both social and biological approaches to assess the possibility of using the information as the basis of simple, valid and locally acceptable indictors for fisheries management. We found that allocation and knowledge issues are closely interlinked and must be addressed in concert, and that the negotiation of shared understandings between multiple sources of knowledge must be a continuous process within an adaptive framework rather than a question of identifying a fixed set of indicators.

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  • Wilson, Douglas Clyde & Raakjær, Jesper & Degnbol, Poul, 2006. "Local ecological knowledge and practical fisheries management in the tropics: A policy brief," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 30(6), pages 794-801, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:marpol:v:30:y:2006:i:6:p:794-801
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    1. Kenneth Ruddle & Francis Hickey, 2008. "Accounting for the mismanagement of tropical nearshore fisheries," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 10(5), pages 565-589, October.
    2. Bailey, Jennifer, 2016. "Adventures in cross-disciplinary studies: Grand strategy and fisheries management," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 63(C), pages 18-27.
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    5. Macdonald, P. & Angus, C.H. & Cleasby, I.R. & Marshall, C.T., 2014. "Fishers’ knowledge as an indicator of spatial and temporal trends in abundance of commercial fish species: Megrim (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) in the northern North Sea," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 45(C), pages 228-239.
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