Ignore fishers’ knowledge and miss the boat

摘要: We describe five examples of how, by ignoring fishers’ ecological knowledge (FEK), marine researchers and resource managers may put fishery resources at risk, or unnecessarily compromise the welfare users. Fishers can provide critical information on such things as interannual, seasonal, lunar, diel, tide-related habitat-related differences in behaviour abundance target species, how these influence fishing strategies. Where long-term data sets are unavailable, older fishers also often only source historical changes local stocks environmental conditions. FEK thus help improve management rebuild ecosystems. It play important roles siting protected areas impact assessment. The fact that studying does not meet criteria for acceptable research advanced some biologists highlights inadequacy those criteria.