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Preliminary lessons from COVID-19 disruptions of small-scale fishery supply chains
Type: Journal Article
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and associated mitigation measures have disrupted global systems that support the health, food and nutrition security, and livelihoods of billions of people. These disruptions have likewise ...
The black box of power in polycentric environmental governance
Type: Journal Article
Failure to address unsustainable global change is often attributed to failures in conventional environmental governance. Polycentric environmental governance—the popular alternative—involves many centres of authority ...
Untangling Tales of Tropical Sardines: Local Knowledge From Fisheries in Timor-Leste
Type: Journal Article
Tropical sardines (Family Clupeidae) are an important component of many marine fisheries in the Indo-West Pacific region. In Timor-Leste, a small, less-developed country within this region, ‘sardiña’ are some of the more ...
PeskAAS: A near-real-time, open-source monitoring and analytics system for small-scale fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Small-scale fisheries are responsible for half of the global fish catch, and fisheries-dependent data underpin scientific guidance of management and conservation, yet we have almost no data on their activities and production ...
Fisheries co-management in hilsa shad sanctuaries of Bangladesh: Early experiences and implementation challenges
Type: Journal Article
National fish hilsa was declining in Bangladesh. The government of Bangladesh took several measures like the establishment of sanctuaries, bans on catching of brood hilsa and its offspring jatka, and reduced the illegal ...
Meeting fisheries, ecosystem function, and biodiversity goals in a human-dominated world
Type: Journal Article
The worldwide decline of coral reefs necessitates targeting management solutions that can sustain reefs and the livelihoods of the people who depend on them. However, little is known about the context in which different ...
Sixteen years of social and ecological dynamics reveal challenges and opportunities for adaptive management in sustaining the commons
Type: Journal Article
Efforts to confront the challenges of environmental change and uncertainty include attempts to adaptively manage social–ecological systems. However, critical questions remain about whether adaptive management can lead to ...
Geography limits island small-scale fishery production
Type: Journal Article
Interacting social and ecological processes shape productivity and sustainability of island small-scale fisheries (SSF). Understanding limits to productivity through historical catches help frame future expectations and ...
Community management yields positive impacts for coastal fisheries resources and biodiversity conservation
Type: Journal Article
Combining no-take marine reserves with exclusive access by communities to unreserved waters could provide the required incentives for community management to achieve positive impacts. However, few protected areas have been ...
Strengthening the resilience of small-scale fisheries: A modeling approach to explore the use of in-shore pelagic resources in Melanesia
Type: Journal Article
Small-scale fisheries play a critical role in both poverty alleviation and food security. A large proportion of the world fish stocks are, however, getting fully or over-exploited. In this article we address these issues ...