The global information system on small-scale fisheries (ISSF): A crowdsourced knowledge platform

Chuenpagdee, Ratana; Rocklin, Delphine; Bishop, David; Hynes, Matthew; Greene, Randal; Lorenzi, Miguel R.; Devillers, Rodolphe

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2017.06.018

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“…This may include comparing risk between fishing areas, how different gears contribute to risk, or evaluating alternative management strategies under consideration [ 43 , 47 , 92 ]. Through leveraging global systems and regional seafood ratings programs that compile small-scale fisheries knowledge [ 9 , 93 ], multi-species risk assessment can be applied to disentangle the human dimension of fisheries bycatch and integrate locally-relevant criteria, such as set height or mesh strength of nets, that embrace the conceptual complexity of marine megafauna conservation research [ 79 ]. After risk baselines have been developed [ 94 , 95 ], it is possible to compare feasible management and policy interventions.…”

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“…Despite their importance globally, SSF struggle with sustainability when local communities do not have access to the social capital necessary to participate in resource management [ 4 – 6 ]. As a result, information and data about SSF is often limited as compared to large-scale, industrial fishing operations [ 7 – 9 ]. Furthermore, some SSF have been identified as a threat to marine ecosystems and species [ 10 – 12 ].…”

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“…For depleted marine mammal populations, even a few entanglements per year can pose a significant threat [ 20 ], especially when combined with cumulative impacts from other anthropogenic threats [ 21 – 23 ]. Bycatch risk is particularly challenging to analyze and calculate in SSF because of data gaps on fishing effort and marine mammal distribution and ranges [ 9 , 19 , 24 ]. Species conservation research developed in close collaboration with local stakeholders, agency personnel, and scientists can be used to overcome these obstacles by characterizing the relationship between SSF and the distribution of threatened marine mammals [ 25 – 27 ].…”

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Using GIS and stakeholder involvement to innovate marine mammal bycatch risk assessment in data-limited fisheries

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Fisheries bycatch has been identified as the greatest threat to marine mammals worldwide. Characterizing the impacts of bycatch on marine mammals is challenging because it is difficult to both observe and quantify, particularly in small-scale fisheries where data on fishing effort and marine mammal abundance and distribution are often limited. The lack of risk frameworks that can integrate and visualize existing data have hindered the ability to describe and quantify bycatch risk. Here, we describe the design of a new geographic information systems tool built specifically for the analysis of bycatch in small-scale fisheries, called Bycatch Risk Assessment (ByRA). Using marine mammals in Malaysia and Vietnam as a test case, we applied ByRA to assess the risks posed to Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris) and dugongs (Dugong dugon) by five small-scale fishing gear types (hook and line, nets, longlines, pots and traps, and trawls). ByRA leverages existing data on animal distributions, fisheries effort, and estimates of interaction rates by combining expert knowledge and spatial analyses of existing data to visualize and characterize bycatch risk. By identifying areas of bycatch concern while accounting for uncertainty using graphics, maps and summary tables, we demonstrate the importance of integrating available geospatial data in an accessible format that taps into local knowledge and can be corroborated by and communicated to stakeholders of data-limited fisheries. Our methodological approach aims to meet a critical need of fisheries managers: to identify emergent interaction patterns between fishing gears and marine mammals and support the development of management actions that can lead to sustainable fisheries and mitigate bycatch risk for species of conservation concern.

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“…The development of a precise catch-data information system for fisheries that recognizes the peculiarities of this sector takes a huge effort. One of the main reasons for the lack of reliable and standardized fisheries data is related to the large variety of fishing gear, target species, and landing sites, which end up biasing catch-data sampling methods [56]. In addition, fishery catch trends often lack species-specific data, and in most cases, discards are neither recorded nor reported [57].…”

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DNA Barcode Reveals the Bycatch of Endangered Batoids Species in the Southwest Atlantic: Implications for Sustainable Fisheries Management and Conservation Efforts

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Today, elasmobranchs are one the most threatened vertebrate groups worldwide. In fact, at least 90% of elasmobranch species are listed in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, while more than 40% are data-deficient. Although these vertebrates are mainly affected by unsustainable fishery activities, bycatch is also one of the major threats to sharks and batoids worldwide, and represents a challenge for both sustainable fishery management and for biodiversity and conservational efforts. Thus, in this study, DNA barcode methodology was used to identify the bycatch composition of batoid species from small-scale industrial fisheries in the southwest Atlantic and artisanal fisheries from southeast Brazil. A total of 228 individuals belonging to four Chondrichthyes orders, seven families, and at least 17 distinct batoid species were sequenced; among these individuals, 131 belonged to species protected in Brazil, 101 to globally threatened species, and some to species with trade restrictions provided by Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). These results highlight the impacts on marine biodiversity of bycatch by small-scale industrial and unmanaged artisanal fisheries from the southwest Atlantic, and support the implementation of DNA-based methodologies for species-specific identification in data-poor fisheries as a powerful tool for improving the quality of fisheries’ catch statistics and for keeping precise bycatch records.

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“…Smartphones and ICTs are increasingly recognized as a tool for participatory fisheries data collection with the potential to increase the accuracy of small-scale fisheries data, facilitating communities in achieving sustainable development, an improved quality of life and supporting the poor and excluded [5,53,54]. Where small-scale fisheries data is collected, it is often irregularly so [54] or fails to fully capture the characteristics and essence of small-scale fisheries [55,56]. Whilst collecting reliable small-scale fisheries data remains imperative, the lack of public policies for the sector as well as the lack of skills in collecting this data continue to complicate the task [57,58].…”

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Toward Sustainability of South African Small-Scale Fisheries Leveraging ICT Transformation Pathways

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Though Internet and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been employed in small-scale fisheries (SSFs) globally, they are seldom systematically explored for the ways in which they facilitate equality, democracy and sustainability. Our study explored how ICTs in South African small-scale fisheries are leveraged towards value chain upgrading, collective action and institutional sustainability—key issues that influence small-scale fishery contributions to marine resource sustainability. We held a participatory workshop as part of ongoing research in the town of Lambert’s Bay, South Africa, in collaboration with small-scale fishers and the Abalobi ICT project. We mapped fisher value chain challenges and explored the role of ICT-driven transformation pathways, adopting Wright’s ‘Real Utopian’ framework as the lens through which to explore equality, democracy and institutional sustainability. We found Abalobi’s ICT platform had the potential to facilitate deeper meanings of democracy that incorporate socio-economic reform, collective action and institutional sustainability in South Africa’s small-scale fisheries. Where fishers are not engaged beyond passive generators of data, this had the potential to undermine the goals of increasing power parity between small-scale fisheries and other stakeholders.

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The global information system on small-scale fisheries (ISSF): A crowdsourced knowledge platform

Cited by 38 publications

References 14 publications

Using GIS and stakeholder involvement to innovate marine mammal bycatch risk assessment in data-limited fisheries

Using GIS and stakeholder involvement to innovate marine mammal bycatch risk assessment in data-limited fisheries

DNA Barcode Reveals the Bycatch of Endangered Batoids Species in the Southwest Atlantic: Implications for Sustainable Fisheries Management and Conservation Efforts

Toward Sustainability of South African Small-Scale Fisheries Leveraging ICT Transformation Pathways

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