Fishers' knowledge on the coast of Brazil

Autor(es)

Begossi, Alpina ^{[1, 2, 3]} ; Salivonchyk, Svetlana ^[4] ; Lopes, Priscila F. M. ^{[2, 5]} ; Silvano, Renato A. M. ^{[2, 6]}

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Univ Estadual Campinas, NEPA, Capesca, Av Albert Einstein 291, BR-13083852 Campinas, SP - Brazil

^[2] Fisheries & Food Institutehttp Www Fisheriesandfo, Paris - France

^[3] Univ Santa Cecilia, Ecomar, Rua Cesario Mota 08, BR-11045040 Santos, SP - Brazil

^[4] Natl Acad Sci Belarus, Inst Nat Management, 10 Fr Skaryna St, Minsk 220114 - Byelarus

^[5] Univ Fed Rio Grande do Norte, Dept Ecol, Fishing Ecol Management & Econ Grp FEME, BR-59078900 Natal, RN - Brazil

^[6] Univ Fed Rio Grande do Sul, Dept Ecol, CP 15007, BR-91501970 Porto Alegre, RS - Brazil

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine; v. 12, JUN 1 2016.
• Citações Web of Science: 4

Resumo

Background: Although fishers' knowledge has been recently considered into management programmes, there is still the need to establish a better understanding of fishers' perceptions and cognition. Fishers can provide novel information on the biology and ecology of species, which can potentially be used in the management of fisheries. The knowledge fishers have and how they classify nature is empirically based. It is common, for example, to observe that fishers' taxonomy is often represented by the generic level, one of the hierarchical categories of folk classification that is somewhat analogous to the Linnean genus, as it groups organisms of a higher rank than the folk species. In this study we compiled the knowledge fishers have on local fish, such as their folk names, diet and habitat. Methods: Five coastal communities widely distributed along the Brazilian coast were studied: two from the northeast (Porto Sauipe and Itacimirim, in Bahia State, n of interviewees = 34), two from the southeast (Itaipu at Niteroi and Copacabana at Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, n = 35) and one from the south coast (Pantano do Sul, in Santa Catarina State, n = 23). Fish pictures were randomly ordered and the same order was presented to all interviewees (n = 92), when they were then asked about the species name and classification and its habitat and diet preferences. Results: Fishers make clusters of fish species, usually hierarchically; fishers of the coast of Brazil use mostly primary lexemes (generic names) to name fish; and fishers did not differentiate between scientific species, since the same folk generic name included two different scientific species. Fishers provide information on species to which there is scarce or no information on diet and habitat, such as Rhinobatos percellens (chola guitarfish, arraia viola or cacao viola), Sphoeroides dorsalis (marbled puffer, baiacu), Mycteroperca acutirostris (comb grouper, badejo) and Dasyatis guttata (longnose stingray, arraia, arraia manteiga). Conclusions: fishers' knowledge on fish diet and fish habitat can be strategic to management, since their knowledge concentrates on the fishery target species, which are the ones under higher fishing pressure. Besides, (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 14/16939-7 - Pescadores & garoupas [Epinephelus marginatus]: ecologia, etnoecologia e segurança alimentar na costa brasileira
• Beneficiário: Alpina Begossi
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Temático
• Processo FAPESP: 14/24994-8 - Comunidades pesqueiras da costa do Brasil: biologia e etnobiologia de espécies alvo
• Beneficiário: Alpina Begossi
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Pesquisador Visitante - Internacional
• Processo FAPESP: 01/00718-1 - Pesqueiros e territorios na pesca artesanal, parte ii: areas costeiras do rio de janeiro e da bahia.
• Beneficiário: Alpina Begossi
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Regular
• Processo FAPESP: 04/02301-9 - Etnobiologia de pescadores artesanais da costa do brasil.
• Beneficiário: Alpina Begossi
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Regular