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Impacts of the Comanagement of Subsistence and Commercial Fishing on Amazon Fisheries

2010
This paper characterizes two types of fisheries in the Lower Amazon and their interactions: small-scale (subsistence-oriented) and commercial fisheries. Small-scale fishing is carried out by floodplain residents who practice fishing as part of a diversified, subsistence-oriented, livelihood strategy that also includes activities such as farming and ...
Oriana Almeida   +3 more
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Perceptions of climate vulnerability for subsistence inland fisheries in the United States

Fisheries
ABSTRACT Globally, inland fisheries are important sources of food, particularly for some communities where fishing is socially or culturally important or where local community economics require families to find cheap sources of food. However, little information specific to subsistence inland fisheries and their dependent communities is ...
Caitlin Montano   +3 more
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A critique of and recommendations for a subsistence fishery, Lake St Lucia, South Africa

Biodiversity & Conservation, 2002
The fish resources of Lake St Lucia, the largest estuary on the eastcoast of Africa, present resource managers of the Natal Parks Board with acommon property resource (CPR) problem. Problems associated with illegal gillnetting by local people from three tribal areas, prompted the introduction of asystem of legal, subsistence netting. This paper reviews
Brenda J.S. Crook, Bruce Q. Mann
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Poverty Alleviation in the Subsistence Fisheries Sector: A Microeconometric Analysis

2001
This working paper applies the Foster Greer and Thorbecke (FGT) (1984) index of poverty measures to the subsistence fishing industry in South Africa in order to evaluate the impact of resource transfers on poverty. The sample of subsistence communities was identified by the Chief Directorate: Marine and Coastal Management of the Department of ...
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Sustainable inland fisheries – perspectives from the recreational, commercial and subsistence sectors from around the globe

, 2016
S. Cooke   +13 more
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