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Keeping Food on the Table: Human Responses and Changing Coastal Fisheries in Solomon Islands. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Globally the majority of commercial fisheries have experienced dramatic declines in stock and catch. Likewise, projections for many subsistence fisheries in the tropics indicate a dramatic decline is looming in the coming decades.
Simon Albert, Shankar Aswani, Paul L Fisher, Joelle Albert   +3 more
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Linking Multiscalar Fisheries Using Metacoupling Models

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020
Marine fisheries are social-ecological systems important for human health and livelihoods. However, research approaches that consider human–nature interactions within as well as between adjacent and distant fisheries are scarce.
Andrew K. Carlson, Andrew K. Carlson, Daniel I. Rubenstein, Daniel I. Rubenstein, Simon A. Levin, Simon A. Levin   +5 more
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Labrador Inuit resilience and resurgence: embedding Indigenous values in commercial fisheries governance

Ecology and Society, 2023
Increasingly there is recognition of the need for new governance and decision-making models in natural resource management that uphold the rights and knowledge systems of Indigenous peoples.
Rachael Cadman, Jamie Snook, Jenna Gilbride, Jim Goudie, Keith Watts, Aaron Dale, Melanie Zurba, Megan Bailey   +7 more
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Measuring perceptions of climate change in northern Alaska: pairing ethnography with cultural consensus analysis

Ecology and Society, 2014
Given current and projected warming trends in the Arctic and the important role played by subsistence hunting and fishing in the life of northern rural communities, it is increasingly important to document local observations of climate change and its ...
Courtney Carothers, Caroline Brown, Katie J. Moerlein, J. Andrés López, David B. Andersen, Brittany Retherford   +5 more
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Small-scale fisheries catch and fishing effort in the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen) between 1950 and 2019

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023
The Socotra Archipelago (Yemen), a group of four islands off the north-eastern tip of Africa in the western Indian Ocean, has a population that relies heavily on small-scale fishing for livelihoods and food security.
Brittany Derrick, Keanna Burns, Audrey Zhu, Vania Andreoli, Dirk Zeller, Daniel Pauly   +5 more
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Reconstruction of Syria’s fisheries catches from 1950–2010: Signs of overexploitation [PDF]

Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 2015
Background. The global community infers trends in fisheries through the catch data assembled by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) from its member countries. Thus, inferences depend on the quality of the member country data,
A. Ulman, A. Saad, K. Zylich, D. Pauly, D. Zeller   +4 more
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Analysis of archaeological fish remains provides new insights into seasonal mobility in Eastern Arabia during the mid-Holocene. The subsistence fisheries of UAQ36, Umm al-Quwain lagoon (United Arab Emirates)

, 2020
The site of UAQ36 is a shell midden located on top of a sand dune on the eastern edge of the Umm al-Quwain lagoon, United Arab Emirates. The first radiocarbon dates suggest that the site was inhabited from the mid-5th millennium, and possibly part of the
Kevin Lidour, P. Béarez, S. Méry
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Fishing for food: piloting an exploration of the invisible subsistence harvest of coastal resources in Connecticut

Agriculture & Food Security, 2017
Background In Connecticut, the subsistence harvest of coastal and marine resources, with the explicit goal of consuming what is collected or caught, is counted and regulated as recreational fishing. Little information exists regarding the harvest and use
Syma Alexi Ebbin
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Long-Term Fishing Catch and Effort Trends in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, With Emphasis on the Small-Scale Sectors

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020
Small-scale fishing has been an important element of the livelihood and food security in Pacific island countries throughout history; however, such catches have been under-reported in the official fisheries data.
Gabriel M. S. Vianna, E. James Hehre, Rachel White, Lincoln Hood, Brittany Derrick, Dirk Zeller   +5 more
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The Prehistoric Fisheries of Akab Island (United Arab Emirates): New Insights into Coastal Subsistence during Neolithic in Eastern Arabia

Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology, 2020
The Neolithic period in Eastern Arabia (especially from 5500 to 3100 BC) is better understood due to recent excavations of stratified sites stretching from Kuwait to the Sultanate of Oman.
Kevin Lidour, P. Béarez, V. Charpentier, S. Méry   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source