Artisanal fisheries of the Itaparica reservoir, São Francisco River, Brazil : socioeconomic profile, environmental dynamics, and management recommendations
| Autor: | Renata Maria Caminha Mendes de Oliveira Carvalho, Gérsica Moraes Nogueira da Silva, Marianna Siegmund-Schultze, Ana Carla Asfora El-Deir, Maria do Carmo Sobral |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0106 biological sciences
Global and Planetary Change Resource (biology) geography.geographical_feature_category business.industry Closed fishing period 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Fish farming Fishing communities Fishing Drainage basin Aquaculture Fish stock 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Multiple uses of water Fishery Geography Environmental impact assessment Fisheries management business Reservoir |
| Zdroj: | Regional Environmental Change 18 (2018) 7 Regional Environmental Change, 18(7), 1889-1899 |
| ISSN: | 1436-3798 |
| Popis: | Currently, artisanal fisheries in fresh water reservoirs have been losing ground to commercial fish farming and a great deal of fishery resources are being threatened by human interventions, such as reservoir management and increasing net-cage aquaculture. This study aims to understand the impacts of environmental changes on fishery resources and analyse the migratory fish breeding season as a missing link for fishery management in the semi-arid area of the São Francisco River Basin. Among the 870 fishermen operating in the Pernambuco part of the Itaparica Reservoir, 10% were interviewed and affirmed that fish stocks have been compromised due to the closed fishing period’s incoherence, exotic species insertion, and changes to the river flow caused by reservoir construction and operation. A significant correlation was observed between the Reproductive Activity Index (RAI) and precipitation (p = 0.745) as well as between the RAI and the river’s flow (p = −0.909). This shows how important it is to consider both the semi-arid climate setting and reservoir operation in determining the closed period which should safeguard fish reproduction. Monitoring the fish reproduction period and research on the reproductive biology of native fish species is needed in the São Francisco River Basin’s different stretches in order to guarantee valuable fish stocks and fisheries maintenance. Integrated action between the fish resource users, civil society, and federal bodies/agencies is essential in order to mitigate impacts and improve fish production systems, not only in Brazil, but in other regions experiencing a similar scenario. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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