Assessing changes in fisheries using fishers' knowledge to generate long time series of catch rates: A case study from the red sea

Ecology and Society

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Tesfamichael, Dawit ^a,b   Pitcher, Tony J ^a   Pauly, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Department of Marine Science University of Asmara   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assessment; Catch rates; Fishers' knowledge; Interview; Red Sea; Small scale fishery; Time series

Indexed keywords

FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHING; INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

EID: 84897509313     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-06151-190118     Document Type: Article

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