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Seminar Abstract:

Small scale traditional fisheries are often set inenvironments where scientific knowledge is poor and conventional management is prohibitively costly. Local fishers often know much aboutinterannual, seasonal, lunar, diel, tide-related and habitat-related differences in behaviour and abundance of target species and on how theseinfluence fishing strategies. Where long term data sets are unavailable,older fishers arealsooften the only source of information on historicalchanges in local marinestocks and in marine environmental conditions. Theirknowledge can thus helpimprove management of target stocks and rebuildmarine ecosystems. It canplayimportant roles in the siting of marine protectedareas and in environmentalimpact assessment. Obtaining such knowledge involvesmethods that are quiteat odds with conventional research methodology. Examples will be givenof how ignorance or dismissal of such anecdotal informationby fisheriesbiologists/managershas led them to make some serious managementerrors.

Pacific Island fishers devised almost all the basicmarine fisheries conservation measures centuries ago thatour text books tellus we invented in the West only about l00 years ago.It is also well establishedthat they more or less contemporaneously exterminated dozens of species oftheir terrestrial megafauna?  Now can we reconcile these two developments?

Biography:

Bob Johannes has worked as an independent FisheriesConsultant in Austrailia since 1993 and as a coral reef ecologist since 1963.  Johannes has focused primarily on small-scale artesinal fisheries on tropicalPacific Islands and in SE Asia. He has worked to incorporate local knowledgeinto fisheries management of tropical areas such as Palauto maintain their"silent visual feast of fish, corals, sponges and jellyfish."
 

Readings

• Neis,B.,Schneider,D.C., Felt,L., Haedrich, R.L., Fischer, J., Hutchings, J.A.(1999) Fisheries assessment: what can be learned from interviewing resource users? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science. 56: 1949-1963.

• Johannes, R.E.(1998).The case for data-less marine resource management: examples from tropical nearshore fisheries. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 13:243-246

Last modified 12/9/2001

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