Navigating Over Space and Time: Fishing Effort Allocation and the Development of Customary Norms in an Open-Access Mangrove Estuary in Ecuador

Human Ecology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 395-411

  Beitl, Christine M ^a  

^a University of Maine   (United States)

Author keywords

Artisanal fisheries; Catch per unit effort (CPUE); Complex adaptive systems; Decision making; Ecuador; Geographic information systems (GIS); Local ecological knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ARTISANAL FISHERY; CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT; DECISION MAKING; ESTUARY; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHING EFFORT; GIS; HABITAT USE; MANGROVE; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

ECUADOR;

EID: 84901985865     PISSN: 03007839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-014-9655-7     Document Type: Article

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