Artisanal Recreational Fisheries: Using a Combined Approach to Fishery Assessment Aimed at Providing Insights for Fishery Managers

Perez, Addiel U.; Arce-Ibarra, Ana Minerva; García-Ortega, Martha; Valdéz-Moreno, Martha; Azueta, James

doi:10.1086/676838

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“…On the other hand, making the opening wider and deeper might play a positive role for the seasonal migratory movements of bonefish [12], barracuda [23], and other species between the Caribbean sea and the bay. However, if habitat destruction is not controlled, especially the flats and mangrove cays that are favorite feeding grounds for bonefish and permit, the damage would be both ecological and socioeconomical, by impinging detrimentally on such species that support an important fishery in Belize and Mexico [3].…”

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“…Many of the fishes found in this system are important resources. Most relevant for recreational fisheries in Belize and Mexico are bonefish (Albula vulpes), but also permit (Trachinotus falcatus), snook (Centropomus undecimalis), and tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) [3]. Other species are fished mostly for local markets: Snappers (Lutjanus spp., especially L. griseus and L. apodus), mojarras (Gerres cinereus, Eugerres plumieri), mackerels (Scomberomorus maculatus and other species), and barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda) [4].…”

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Changes in the Fish Community of a Western Caribbean Estuary after the Expansion of an Artificial Channel to the Sea

Schmitter‐Soto

Herrera-Pavón

2019

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Increased connectivity between coastal lagoons and the sea is expected to entail a greater proportion of marine species in the former. Chetumal Bay, estuary of the Hondo river into the Caribbean, had a limited access to the sea until the opening of the Zaragoza Canal. We sought changes in the fish community from 1999–2001 (just after an expansion of the canal) to 2015–2018. The same fishing gear was used, in the same localities, during all seasons. Total fish abundance and mean local richness decreased, although total abundance increased in the polyhaline zone. Diversity was greater in the oligohaline zone in 1999–2001, and in the mesohaline zone in 2015–2018. Three guilds were absent in 2015–2018: Medium-sized herbivores, large piscivores, and medium-sized planktivores. Abundance of small benthivores decreased by decade; medium-sized piscivores and small planktivores became more abundant in 2015–2018 in the polyhaline zone. These changes may be due to the opening of the channel, but illegal fishing outside the bay may explain the decrease in juveniles of large piscivores, and erosion in the innermost part may be destroying important habitats. Our findings can be a reference for similar situations, as coastal development and climate change interact and affect tropical estuaries.

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Changes in the Fish Community of a Western Caribbean Estuary after the Expansion of an Artificial Channel to the Sea

Schmitter‐Soto

Herrera-Pavón

2019

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Stakeholder Engagement as a Core Component of Recreational Marine Fisheries Research, Education, and Conservation

Adams,

Boucek,

Lewis

et al. 2024

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Effective modern conservation depends on active stakeholder participation. Although stakeholder engagement is increasing, the extent of this engagement and the successful application of outcomes to science and management varies regionally and among types of fisheries. A collaborative model that emphasizes knowledge coproduction with stakeholders better identifies research needs and conservation threats, and influences research and policy outcomes. Stakeholder integration can be facilitated by nongovernment organizations, such as boundary organizations. Bonefish and Tarpon Trust is a science‐based, conservation organization founded in 1998 by recreational fishers and fishing guides that focuses on marine recreational fisheries in the Caribbean Sea and western North Atlantic Ocean. The Trust engages fishers directly, incorporating their knowledge and perspectives to identify conservation concerns, shape research, contribute to data collection, and disseminate information, and work with resource managers and scientific researchers to address conservation and management needs. This approach is demonstrated in case studies that show integration of recreational fishers in science, assessment of conservation threats, and application of findings to management for the recreational flats fishery in the Caribbean Sea and western North Atlantic Ocean, in the context of broader efforts of stakeholder collaboration toward actionable science to inform management.

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Connectivity mediated by seasonal bonefish (Albula vulpes) migration between the Caribbean Sea and a tropical estuary of Belize and Mexico

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Artisanal Recreational Fisheries: Using a Combined Approach to Fishery Assessment Aimed at Providing Insights for Fishery Managers

Cited by 13 publications

References 17 publications

Changes in the Fish Community of a Western Caribbean Estuary after the Expansion of an Artificial Channel to the Sea

Changes in the Fish Community of a Western Caribbean Estuary after the Expansion of an Artificial Channel to the Sea

Stakeholder Engagement as a Core Component of Recreational Marine Fisheries Research, Education, and Conservation

Connectivity mediated by seasonal bonefish (Albula vulpes) migration between the Caribbean Sea and a tropical estuary of Belize and Mexico

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