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Resilience of a giant clam subsistence fishery in Kiribati to climate change
Pacific Conservation Biology, 2023Changes in sea surface temperature have historically impacted the coral reef habitats of giant clams in Kiribati. However, across many islands of Kiribati, the four species of giant clam have largely withstood these environmental changes. We adopted and applied a comprehensive resilience framework to assess attributes conferring and limiting resilience
Jacob G. Eurich +7 more
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Practicing Anthropology, 2005
The intent of this article is to introduce a relatively new federal program funding social science research on fisheries in Alaska. We discuss some of the challenges of this developing applied social science program, specifically focusing on some of the issues raised by research involving the collection and analysis of traditional ecological knowledge (
Polly Wheeler, Amy Craver
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The intent of this article is to introduce a relatively new federal program funding social science research on fisheries in Alaska. We discuss some of the challenges of this developing applied social science program, specifically focusing on some of the issues raised by research involving the collection and analysis of traditional ecological knowledge (
Polly Wheeler, Amy Craver
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Subsistence and commercial fisheries
1983There are three levels of fishing in Papua New Guinea — subsistence, village level commercial and high technology commercial or ‘industrial’ fishing. Fishing throughout the Purari River system is largely confined to the first two categories although the processing plant at Baimuru handles product from the industrial prawn trawl fishery in the Gulf of ...
A. K. Haines, R. N. Stevens
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Subsistence Use of Fisheries Resources in Alaska: Implications for Great Lakes Fisheries Management
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 1987Abstract Use of fisheries resources for subsistence by rural populations is becoming an increasingly controversial issue in industrialized societies. Alaska is the only state which has enacted a law to provide for subsistence uses of renewable natural resources by both natives and nonnatives.
Robert M. Muth +2 more
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Subsistence Fisheries and the Exxon Valdez: Human Health Concerns
International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings, 1991ABSTRACT As a result of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, many residents of villages in Prince William Sound, Lower Cook Inlet, the Alaska Peninsula, and Kodiak Island were alarmed by the prospect that their subsistence food supply might have been contaminated by oil and thus present an increased health risk.
Ann Hayward Walker, L. Jay Field
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TBT contamination of an artisanal subsistence fishery in Suva harbour, Fiji
Ocean & Coastal Management, 1999Abstract The intertidal zone around the Suva Peninsula, Fiji, supports separate finfish and invertebrate subsistence fisheries. This important source of fresh marine food for many low-income families around metropolitan Suva is under threat from foreshore reclamation projects and from anthropogenic biochemical pollution.
M.T. Davis, P.F. Newell, N.J. Quinn
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Value and management of the subsistence fishery at Knysna Estuary, South Africa
African Journal of Marine Science, 2009Knysna Estuary supports an estimated 30 full-time and 200 part-time subsistence fishers involved in bait collection, mud crab harvesting, and fishing. The mud prawn Upogebia africana dominates the bait-fishery, with estimated catches amounting to about 3% of the standing stock, suggesting sustainable use. Harvest of Marphysa spp.
Napier, V R, Turpie, J K, Clark, B M
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Impacts of epizootic ulcerative syndrome on subsistence fisheries and wildlife.
Revue scientifique et technique (International Office of Epizootics), 2020Epizootic ulcerative syndrome (EUS), caused by the water mould (Oomycota) Aphanomyces invadans, has spread throughout the world's major continents over the last 50 years, with the apparent exception of South and Central America. With over 160 susceptible fish species representing 54 families and 16 orders recorded to date, EUS is of international ...
Herbert, B. +3 more
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Impacts of the Comanagement of Subsistence and Commercial Fishing on Amazon Fisheries
2010This 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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Subsistence Fisheries Management on Federal Public Lands in Alaska
Fisheries, 2002Abstract On 1 October 1999, the federal government assumed responsibility for subsistence fisheries management in inland navigable waters on federal public lands in Alaska, which comprise 60% of the state. Such responsibility in non-navigable waters on federal public lands was established in 1990.
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