The Role of Local Ecological Knowledge in the Conservation and Management of Reef Fish Spawning Aggregations

摘要: Knowledge of the existence, location and timing reef fish spawning aggregations is largely obtained from Local Ecological in fishing communities that exploit, or once exploited them. This information typically collected by interviewing, followed, ideally, validation visiting surveying reported aggregation sites. Conducting interviews a relatively simple process can be extremely productive but only if interviewees are engaged selected carefully (by gear, location, age, etc.), interviewer knowledgeable, prepared gains respect interviewee, various limitations as source clearly understood. Moreover, to ensure cannot potentially misused effectively applied management conservation, it important not validated, shared communicated appropriately, integrated into relevant scientific framework, confidentiality respected necessary. We review range studies around tropics based on interview approach, evaluate its effectiveness against validated aggregations, provide guidelines for what we believe good practices.