Efficiently enforcing artisanal fisheries to protect estuarine biodiversity

Artisanal Fisheries Research: A Need for Globalization?

Given limited funds for research and widespread degradation of ecosystems, environmental scientists should geographically target their studies where they will be most effective. However, in academic areas such as conservation and natural resource management there is often a mismatch between the geographic foci of research effort/funding and research needs. The former frequently being focused in...

Harnessing carbon payments to protect biodiversity.

Initiatives to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) are providing increasing incentives for forest protection. The collateral benefits for biodiversity depend on the extent to which emissions reductions and biodiversity conservation can be achieved in the same places. Globally, we demonstrate spatial trade-offs in allocating funds to protect forests for carbon and b...

Estuarine Fisheries Community-Level Response to Freshwater Inflows

Artisanal fisheries of the Xingu River basin in Brazilian Amazon.

The present study characterises the commercial fisheries of the basin of the Xingu River, a major tributary of the Amazon River, between the towns of Gurupá (at the mouth of the Amazon) and São Félix do Xingu. Between April, 2012, and March, 2014, a total of 23,939 fishing trips were recorded, yielding a total production of 1,484 tons of fish, harvested by almost three thousand fishers. The ana...

Artisanal fisheries analysis using System Dynamics: the case of dredge fisheries in Portugal