2022
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.837447
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Widespread Use of Migratory Megafauna for Aquatic Wild Meat in the Tropics and Subtropics

Abstract: Wild animals are captured or taken opportunistically, and the meat, body parts, and/or eggs are consumed for local subsistence or used for traditional purposes to some extent across most of the world, particularly in the tropics and subtropics. The consumption of aquatic animals is widespread, in some places has been sustained for millennia, and can be an important source of nutrition, income, and cultural identity to communities. Yet, economic opportunities to exploit wildlife at higher levels have led to uns… Show more

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“…As is the case in many tropical nations, the drivers of sea turtle consumption and sale would appear to include poverty, the limited enforcement of existing regulations, and the cultural significance of eating sea turtles (Humber et al, 2011). Sea turtles will remain an important component of the SSFs in the Solomon Islands and many other countries for the foreseeable future (Kinch, 2020; Ingram et al, 2022), but current harvest rates appear to be unsustainable and sea turtle stocks in the Solomon Islands would benefit from improved management. The management recommendations from this study were first shared with government stakeholders in 2019 (Vuto et al, 2019), and have now been integrated into the Solomon Islands National Plan of Action for Marine Turtles 2023–2027 (MECDM & MFMR, 2023).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…As is the case in many tropical nations, the drivers of sea turtle consumption and sale would appear to include poverty, the limited enforcement of existing regulations, and the cultural significance of eating sea turtles (Humber et al, 2011). Sea turtles will remain an important component of the SSFs in the Solomon Islands and many other countries for the foreseeable future (Kinch, 2020; Ingram et al, 2022), but current harvest rates appear to be unsustainable and sea turtle stocks in the Solomon Islands would benefit from improved management. The management recommendations from this study were first shared with government stakeholders in 2019 (Vuto et al, 2019), and have now been integrated into the Solomon Islands National Plan of Action for Marine Turtles 2023–2027 (MECDM & MFMR, 2023).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…First, most studies have been conducted at small spatial scales, limiting the ability to confidently calculate country‐wide estimates of sea turtle mortalities (Wallace et al, 2013). Second, information on the abundance of foraging and nesting sea turtle stocks rarely exists (Humber et al, 2011), and third, typically there are no quantitative data on how the harvest rates of sea turtles have changed over time (Wallace et al, 2013; Ingram et al, 2022).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Excessive harvesting of the living resources has led to a decline of several species by the mid-twentieth century, after which 'a period of prohibition, control, and regulation of wildlife use that produced positive results in a few cases and places but failed terribly in the majority followed' (Larriera 2022, p. 2). Worldwide, legal prohibition and penalties fixed by written policies were effective only where there was a high enforcement capacity, otherwise illegal harvesting would occur (Ingram et al 2022). In the case of sea turtles, commitments to conservation started by adhering to international policies (e.g., *Sevu refers to the annual offering of harvests presented to the Church which is usually done in February (Vula I Sevu) on the traditional iTaukei calendar.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This phrase, of course, was not intended to mean a world in which all whaling had ceased; ours has indeed been a whaling world since at least the time of the Neolithic cave artists at Bangu-dae and remains so today [2]. While industrialized, commercial whaling occurs only as a relict activity in certain stubborn states such as Iceland, Japan, and Norway, where it is often heavily subsidized and the subject of significant international opposition, whaling as a traditional part of local livelihoods, or as a newly emerged strategy to alleviate food insecurity, remains widespread [3][4][5][6]. A global survey of marine mammal consumption produced by Martin Robards and Randy Reeves in 2011 mapped the intensity of exploitation along the world's coastlines and major inland waterways and remains largely actual [7].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Many of these contemporary whaling societies are facing their own sustainability crises and have held onto, or turned to, whaling as a way to address challenges that stem from causes such as climate change; the collapse of fisheries; the degradation, fragmentation, and loss of terrestrial habitats; overpopulation; poverty; and the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic [6]. In doing so, some human societies have become integrated with the cetacean populations upon which they rely to the extent that any successful effort to promote the sustainable conservation of marine mammals must necessarily address more than just the wellbeing of cetacean populations themselves.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%