Taking fishers’ knowledge and it's implications to fisheries policy seriously

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Autor(a) principal: Renck, Vitor
Data de Publicação: 2023
Outros Autores: Ludwig, David, Bollettin, Paride [UNESP], Reis-Filho, José Amorim, Poliseli, Luana, El-Hani, Charbel N.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-14104-280207
http://hdl.handle.net/11449/247374
Resumo: Sustainable fishing is one of the most pressing challenges for mankind and requires insightful knowledge of the drivers that may foster or hinder predatory exploitation. It has been widely recognized that Indigenous and local knowledge can contribute to biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of resources, such as fisheries, worldwide. Nevertheless such knowledge continues to be marginalized and unacknowledged by a range of academic scientists and policy makers. In the present paper, we tackle this issue by discussing laws regarding closed fishing seasons, which are part of the Brazilian environmental policies for protecting marine fauna, from the perspective of artisanal fishers’ knowledge. In Brazil, these laws are typically based on governmental decisions (i.e., by administrative organizations and researchers acting as consultants) without taking fishers’ knowledge into account. Through semi-structured interviews with traditional experts of fishing villages situated along the northeast coast of Brazil, we aimed to investigate their knowledge of fish reproductive periods and analyze how it is related to the closed seasons at work in their region. We found an exact agreement between fishers’ knowledge and closed season regulations on the reproductive period of the mangrove crab (Ucides cordatus), but a conflict regarding the reproductive period of two snook species and four species of shrimps. We highlight the potential of fishers’ knowledge contributions to environmental regulations and we also explore three challenges of incorporating epistemic diversity in environmental policy. We conclude by advocating for a reflexive transdisciplinarity that highlights the potential of Indigenous and local knowledge while critically reflecting on the methodological and political challenges of transdisciplinary practices.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Taking fishers’ knowledge and it's implications to fisheries policy seriously
title Taking fishers’ knowledge and it's implications to fisheries policy seriously
spellingShingle Taking fishers’ knowledge and it's implications to fisheries policy seriously
Renck, Vitor
artisanal fishers
closed fishing season
environmental policies
Indigenous and local knowledge
policy making
transdisciplinarity
title_short Taking fishers’ knowledge and it's implications to fisheries policy seriously
title_full Taking fishers’ knowledge and it's implications to fisheries policy seriously
title_fullStr Taking fishers’ knowledge and it's implications to fisheries policy seriously
title_full_unstemmed Taking fishers’ knowledge and it's implications to fisheries policy seriously
title_sort Taking fishers’ knowledge and it's implications to fisheries policy seriously
author Renck, Vitor
author_facet Renck, Vitor
Ludwig, David
Bollettin, Paride [UNESP]
Reis-Filho, José Amorim
Poliseli, Luana
El-Hani, Charbel N.
author_role author
author2 Ludwig, David
Bollettin, Paride [UNESP]
Reis-Filho, José Amorim
Poliseli, Luana
El-Hani, Charbel N.
author2_role author
author
author
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Wageningen University and Research
National Institute of Science and Technology in Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies in Ecology and Evolution (INCT IN-TREE)
Masaryk University
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)
ICHTUS Environment & Society
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Renck, Vitor
Ludwig, David
Bollettin, Paride [UNESP]
Reis-Filho, José Amorim
Poliseli, Luana
El-Hani, Charbel N.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv artisanal fishers
closed fishing season
environmental policies
Indigenous and local knowledge
policy making
transdisciplinarity
topic artisanal fishers
closed fishing season
environmental policies
Indigenous and local knowledge
policy making
transdisciplinarity
description Sustainable fishing is one of the most pressing challenges for mankind and requires insightful knowledge of the drivers that may foster or hinder predatory exploitation. It has been widely recognized that Indigenous and local knowledge can contribute to biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of resources, such as fisheries, worldwide. Nevertheless such knowledge continues to be marginalized and unacknowledged by a range of academic scientists and policy makers. In the present paper, we tackle this issue by discussing laws regarding closed fishing seasons, which are part of the Brazilian environmental policies for protecting marine fauna, from the perspective of artisanal fishers’ knowledge. In Brazil, these laws are typically based on governmental decisions (i.e., by administrative organizations and researchers acting as consultants) without taking fishers’ knowledge into account. Through semi-structured interviews with traditional experts of fishing villages situated along the northeast coast of Brazil, we aimed to investigate their knowledge of fish reproductive periods and analyze how it is related to the closed seasons at work in their region. We found an exact agreement between fishers’ knowledge and closed season regulations on the reproductive period of the mangrove crab (Ucides cordatus), but a conflict regarding the reproductive period of two snook species and four species of shrimps. We highlight the potential of fishers’ knowledge contributions to environmental regulations and we also explore three challenges of incorporating epistemic diversity in environmental policy. We conclude by advocating for a reflexive transdisciplinarity that highlights the potential of Indigenous and local knowledge while critically reflecting on the methodological and political challenges of transdisciplinary practices.
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