Fishers’ knowledge and scientific indeterminacy: contested oil impacts in Mexico’s sacrifice zone

Quist, Liina-Maija

doi:10.1007/s40152-018-0123-7

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“…FEK proved to be useful for management, research and detection of long-term changes in fish stocks. The decline in stocks was attributed to greenhouse emissions, pollution, dredging, and industrial fisheries, reflecting other findings around the world (Ambrose et al, 2014;Sievanen, 2014;Saavedra Díaz et al 2015a, b;Lima et al, 2016; Anbleyth-Evans, 2018;Quist, 2019). In addition, SSF already possess tools that could enhance conservation, such as species-specific gears based on knowledge of the environment and species behaviour, as reported for other developing regions in the world (López Cazorla, 2004;Sievanen, 2014;García-Quijano & Valdés-Pizzini, 2015).…”

Section: Fek In the Bbe As A Conservation Toolsupporting

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Alternative Conservation Paradigms and Ecological Knowledge of Small-Scale Artisanal Fishers in a Changing Marine Scenario in Argentina

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We studied conservation paradigms of small-scale artisanal fishers and other actors involved in the conservation of the Bahía Blanca Estuary (BBE)-a Southwestern Atlantic estuary under anthropogenic pressures (conservationists, NGOs, individuals in the private sector and the port consortium). We focused on the relationship between fishers and non-human entities (e.g., animals, tides, lunar cycles, etc.) from alternative conservation paradigms according to Pálsson's schema (orientalism, paternalism, communalism). We also explored the ecological knowledge of fisher communities to identify possible conservation strategies. Using an ethnographic approach, we identified communalism as the dominant paradigm within the fisher communities as opposed to the paternalistic and orientalist approaches of conservationists and industry employees in the BBE. Fishers demonstrated a broad knowledge on the effects of climate change on fish stocks and pollution on ocean environments and biota, which gillnets avoid catching juveniles and threatened species, and landscape changes over the long-term period, among others areas that could be useful for conservation of these changing coastal ecosystems. We conclude that understanding local perspectives and practices is essential for a democratic exchange among different bodies of knowledge to conserve marine ecosystems.

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Alternative Conservation Paradigms and Ecological Knowledge of Small-Scale Artisanal Fishers in a Changing Marine Scenario in Argentina

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“…The review of previous research we did on articles from the field of marine studies focusing on how fishermen's experience-based knowledge can supplement accepted scientific knowledge, reveals an interest in, acknowledgement of, and ambivalence towards the kind of knowledge that fishermen embody. Within science, this knowledge is recognized as clearly embodied, experience-based, and thus unscientific, even though all the articles we reviewed argued for the value of fishermen's knowledge as supplementary to scientific knowledge (Ames, 2002;Anbleyth-Evans & Lacy, 2019;De Celles et al, 2017;Johannes & Neis, 2007;Johnson, 2010Johnson, , 2011Lima et al, 2016;Medeiros et al, 2018;Stephenson et al, 2016;Sulemain, 2018;Quist, 2019).…”

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A narrative inquiry into fishermen’s experience-based knowledge

Ervik

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Strømme³

2022

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The context of this article is a science teacher educator’s interest in experience-based learning. This led her to an exploration of the experience-based knowledge of five elderly professional fishermen in the small fishing community of Mausund in Norway. The research question guiding the article is: How can professional fishermen’s experience-based knowledge be explored through narrative inquiry? As a conclusion, embodied culture or a lived community of practice with a clear social dimension is highlighted as a way of becoming a fisherman that the use of narrative inquiry methodology helps to become articulated and thereby visible as knowledge. This embodied culture and lived community of practice with a clear social dimension has not only shaped the fishermen’s knowledge about fishing, but also their attitude to narration, to storytelling. They are brought up in a culture in which talking and telling is neither expected nor encouraged, which influences the interviews. The fishermen are not unwilling to tell, but they are not used to thinking about their own knowledge as fishermen, as knowledge. Little by little, through the interviews, their experience-based knowledge is narrated and articulated. In other words, the narrative inquiry methodology opens for embodied culture being articulated, visible as knowledge, and thereby possible to discuss as valuable within science education.

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“…These differences, and the diverging material relations with, and economic and political interests in the sea by fishers, the oil industry, and governmental authorities, constitute these actors as unequally positioned "knowers". Understanding the phenomenotechniques employed by fishers to make sense of oil exploration's uncertain consequences demands attention to fishers' everyday engagements with the sea (Quist, 2018), to technical skills and situated knowledges acquired through fishing, and to fishers' ways of exploring the behavior of different fish species. These situated knowledges are (re)formulated amidst politically mediated opportunities to get access to certain resource spaces, as well as by socially differentiated possibilities to get one's claims taken into account in different policy forums (Nygren, 2018;Nygren and Wayessa, 2018).…”

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“…In public and scientific debates, attention to the impacts of oil extraction is focused on easily observable, catastrophic events such as oil spills and explosions, while possible effects of oil exploration have received scant attention, despite the fact that exploration is an issue causing increasing tension in many parts of the world (ABC, 2018; Arbo and Thanh Thuy, 2016). In Mexico, the socio-material complexity of determining the harmfulness of oil extraction, the political-economic imperative to expand the hydrocarbon production, and the political legacy of oil as the symbol of patrimony, complicate the efforts to carefully examine the effects of oil industry on local environments and communities (Quist, 2018;Salas Landa, 2016).…”

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Debating the unknowns of marine oil exploration in Mexico

Quist

Nygren

2019

The Extractive Industries and Society

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Marine extraction accounts for one third of the world's hydrocarbon production. Several analyses suggest that seismic surveys employed in oil exploration harm marine life; however, their long-term impacts have not been extensively studied. We examine debates between fishers, the oil industry, and governmental authorities over the effects of oil explorations in Tabasco, Mexico. The study employs ideas from historical ontology in tracing the contested production of truth-claims about exploration in the context of scientific uncertainty. It shows how actors, through their different engagements with the sea, and with different degrees of power, frame claims about the relations between exploration and fish. We argue that fishers, through their efforts to "think like fish" produce situated knowledges about the effects of oil exploration. They explain a disappearance of fish by their understanding that seismic surveys disturb fish migration, impair the hearing of fish and cause fish death. Oil company and governmental representatives frame the impacts of oil exploration as insignificant by separating environmental and social dimensions, by isolating individual exploration events, and by arguing that possible effects are transitional. Due to scientific indeterminacy, oil exploration is malleable in the hands of powerful political representations that understate its possible impacts on marine socio-environments.

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Fishers’ knowledge and scientific indeterminacy: contested oil impacts in Mexico’s sacrifice zone

Cited by 15 publications

References 21 publications

Alternative Conservation Paradigms and Ecological Knowledge of Small-Scale Artisanal Fishers in a Changing Marine Scenario in Argentina

Alternative Conservation Paradigms and Ecological Knowledge of Small-Scale Artisanal Fishers in a Changing Marine Scenario in Argentina

A narrative inquiry into fishermen’s experience-based knowledge

Debating the unknowns of marine oil exploration in Mexico

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