Ecology of artisanal fishing in Paraty: optimal foraging and ethnoecology

• Grant number: 09/11154-3
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• Start date: February 01, 2010
• End date: January 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Ecology - Applied Ecology
• Principal Investigator: Alpina Begossi
• Grantee: Alpina Begossi
• Host Institution: Pró-Reitoria de Extensão e Assuntos Comunitários (PREAC). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant(s): 12/16722-2 - Ecology and ethnoecology of Brazilian artisanal fisheries, AV.BR
• Associated scholarship(s): 11/14701-5 - Ecology and Ethnoecology of robalos (Centropomidae)Centropomus undecimalis (BLOCH, 1792) and Centropomus parallelus (POEY, 1860) in Paraty Bay, RJ., BP.MS; 11/15629-6 - Ethnoecology: perception and resilience regarding the use of fisheries resources and fishing technologies in Paraty, RJ, BP.MS

Abstract

The lack of detailed information on artisanal fishing contributes to management obstacles in the context of local populations that economically depend upon this activity in the Atlantic Forest coast. In this study, we will focus on artisanal fisheries of Paraty, Rio de Janeiro. Four aspects are important to be approached by the ecology of artisanal fisheries: 1) the use of fishery resources, among other resources, by the community; 2) the use of the aquatic space; 3) the decision-making process of the fishers; and 4) the local knowledge of fishers. This project intends to analyze the decision-making process of artisanal fishers in the light of optimal foraging models (sub-project 1) and the ethnoecology of grouper, Epinephelus marginatus, through a study case (sub-project 2). We expect to understand the variables that underlines the fishery species choices, the fishing spots chosen, the time spent in fishing, among other aspects, involved in the decision-making processes of Paraty artisanal fishery; we also expect to analyze the artisanal fishing of grouper, Epinephelus marginatus in Paraty, in relation to its fishing spots, time fishing, gear used, along with other ethnoecological information towards this species. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

LOPES, PRISCILA F. M.; SILVANO, RENATO A. M.; NORA, VINICIUS A.; BEGOSSI, ALPINA. Transboundary Socio-Ecological Effects of a Marine Protected Area in the Southwest Atlantic. AMBIO, v. 42, n. 8, SI, p. 963-974, NOV 2013. (12/16722-2, 09/11154-3)

HUNTINGTON, HENRY P.; BEGOSSI, ALPINA; GEARHEARD, SHARI FOX; KERSEY, BETH; LORING, PHILIP A.; MUSTONEN, TERO; PAUDEL, PRAKASH K.; SILVANO, RENATO A. M.; VAVE, RON. How small communities respond to environmental change: patterns from tropical to polar ecosystems. Ecology and Society, v. 22, n. 3, 2017. (09/11154-3)

PRIOLLI, REGINA H. G.; BAJAY, MIKLOS M.; SILVANO, RENATO A. M.; BEGOSSI, ALPINA. Population genetic structure of an estuarine and a reef fish species exploited by Brazilian artisanal fishing. Scientia Marina, v. 80, n. 4, p. 11-pg., 2016-12-01. (08/56249-9, 09/11154-3)

SILVANO, RENATO A. M.; NORA, VINICIUS; ANDREOLI, TAINA B.; LOPES, PRISCILA F. M.; BEGOSSI, ALPINA. The 'ghost of past fishing': Small-scale fisheries and conservation of threatened groupers in subtropical islands. MARINE POLICY, v. 75, p. 8-pg., 2017-01-01. (09/11154-3, 11/14701-5, 12/16722-2)

SILVANO, RENATO A. M.; NORA, VINICIUS; ANDREOLI, TAINA B.; LOPES, PRISCILA F. M.; BEGOSSI, ALPINA. The `ghost of past fishing': Small-scale fisheries and conservation of threatened groupers in subtropical islands. MARINE POLICY, v. 75, p. 125-132, JAN 2017. (11/14701-5, 09/11154-3, 12/16722-2)

PRIOLLI, REGINA H. G.; BAJAY, MIKLOS M.; SILVANO, RENATO A. M.; BEGOSSI, ALPINA. Population genetic structure of an estuarine and a reef fish species exploited by Brazilian artisanal fishing. Scientia Marina, v. 80, n. 4, p. 467-477, DEC 2016. (08/56249-9, 09/11154-3)

LIMA, EVELYN G.; BEGOSSI, ALPINA; HALLWASS, GUSTAVO; SILVANO, RENATO A. M.. Fishers' knowledge indicates short-term temporal changes in the amount and composition of catches in the southwestern Atlantic. MARINE POLICY, v. 71, p. 111-120, SEP 2016. (09/11154-3, 12/16722-2)

BEGOSSI, ALPINA. The river and the sea: fieldwork in human ecology and ethnobiology. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, v. 10, OCT 2 2014. (09/11154-3)

LOPES, PRISCILA F. M.; SILVANO, RENATO A. M.; NORA, VINICIUS A.; BEGOSSI, ALPINA. Transboundary Socio-Ecological Effects of a Marine Protected Area in the Southwest Atlantic. AMBIO, v. 42, n. 8, p. 12-pg., 2013-11-01. (09/11154-3, 12/16722-2)