Participatory Design of a Monitoring Protocol for the Small-Scale Fisheries at the Community of Tarituba, Paraty, Rj, Brazil

Dias, Ana Carolina Esteves; Seixas, Cristiana Simão

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“…This is illustrated by what happened in the artisanal fishing monitoring program in Tarituba, whereby the initiative to develop a statement of commitment for artisanal fishing in the PA emerged locally among PA management and local fishers in 2012. When it was submitted to the headquarters of the PA Federal Agency in 2013, approval was delayed for four years because of ideological disputes within the agency (Seixas et al 2017, Dias andSeixas 2019). This event discouraged the participation of fishers in other initiatives and undermined the PA managers' credibility with them.…”

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What comes after crises? Key elements and insights into feedback amplifying community self-organization

Moraes¹,

Farinaci²,

Prado³

et al. 2023

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In face of complex socio-environmental issues experienced in different social-ecological systems, we ask if comprehensive lessons could be learned from cases of community self-organization that were successful in solving collective problems at the local level. Considering that the trajectory of each community is unique and self-organization develops in distinctive settings, we sought to identify the common elements shared by six case studies in Brazil and investigate how they interact (i.e., if they generate feedback that amplifies self-organization), synthesizing the lessons drawn from each case so they may be applied to other contexts. In all cases, community self-organization provided good conditions to overcome crisis and led to desirable changes regarding the problem in question. We explored the underlying mechanisms of successful community self-organization from a social-ecological and community resilience standpoint and identified six elements in common: ability and/or willingness to find opportunities in crisis; partnerships with external actors; human and social capital within the community; generation of income opportunities and/or guarantee of rights; existence of spaces that favor social interaction; and agency oriented to collective mobilization and problem solving. Elements were interconnected and often reinforced one another, generating amplifying feedback, which is seen in the repetition and improvement of practices and attitudes over time and space. Agency was a prominent catalyst for self-organization by generating amplifying feedback that positively affected other elements; it was an element of the feedback chain reinforced by the benefits reaped at the individual level. When collective interests prevailed over individual ones, it was less likely to generate feedback that inhibited self-organization. We argued that ordinary relationships related to different cultural practices and livelihoods were important exercises of collective action that provided communities with a repertoire of responses that could be activated in times of crisis, thus enhancing their capacity to self-organize.

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What comes after crises? Key elements and insights into feedback amplifying community self-organization

Moraes¹,

Farinaci²,

Prado³

et al. 2023

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“…In the Tamoios Protected Area, a no-take zone, small-scale fishers, managers and researchers co-developed a monitoring protocol to provide information about fishing impacts in the marine environment and the relevance of fishing to sustain local livelihoods (Dias and Seixas, 2019). The protocol was part of a formal agreement between the protected area and small-scale fishers of the Tarituba community to temporarily allow small-scale fishing inside the Tamoios Protected Area.…”

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“…The result of a lack of knowledge-sharing is an MPA that is viewed as illegitimate. In the case of the Brazilian Tamoios MPA, however, the participatory approach to design the monitoring protocol enabled the integration of different knowledge types and perspectives and formed the basis for more shared understanding (Dias and Seixas, 2019). As experiences in the CCRN show, knowledge co-production is very much an important catalyst for better outcomes.…”

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Communities, conservation and livelihoods

Charles¹

2021

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In most places around the world, people are an integral, sometimes dominant, part of the environment. This has two implications. First, a key requirement for sustainability success lies in finding ways to meet the dual goals of conserving nature and providing for the well-being and quality of life of people. Second, while conservation and stewardship certainly require considering the problems created by human impacts, they can also draw on the considerable potential of humans to solve a range of environmental challenges. Global sustainability requires corresponding responses at a global level. Equally, there is a need for bottom-up change. Indeed, there is much that can be done, and is being done, at the local level. This book explores how local communities around the world are successfully responding to threats to the environment and local livelihoods. As communities continue to make a difference at the forefront of conservation, it is an auspicious moment to explore the links of community environmental stewardship, sustainable livelihoods and government engagement, and to appreciate the ‘power of community’.

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“…Artisanal shing is the predominant activity in traditional coastal communities in the tropics, being characterized by low investment in external technologies, the use of small vessels that limit the extent of shing and the extensive use of LEK (see Batista et al, 2014). However, the supposed simplicity of artisanal shing contains a variety of competing interests and complex knowledge that may, depending on social context, contribute to con icts and/or solutions [28][29][30][31]. Therefore, analyzing the structuring of LEK through mapping ows between existing relationships can generate positive externalities in sheries management, enhancing its effectiveness.…”

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Local Ecological Knowledge Networks in Tropical Artisanal Shrimp Fisheries

Castro¹,

Fabré²,

Oliveira³

et al. 2020

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BackgroundLocal ecological knowledge (LEK) in fishing communities is generated through interactions between fishers and the exploited resources. It is transmitted through social networks, interdisciplinary structures that drives the dynamics of socio-ecological systems (SES). LEK variability is supposed to depend on the quality and quantity of ecological information flow among different stakeholders. To assess what is driving LEK themes, we hypothesized that the formation of LEK clusters among fishers is determined by network articulation, fisher experience and the commercial value of the exploited species. MethodsThe study area comprises three fishing communities in the Western South Atlantic, in the tropical coastal zone of Brazil where artisanal shrimp fisheries (on Penaeus schmitti, P. subtilis and Xiphopenaeus kroyeri) are a major activity. Data collection took place between March, April, and November 2019. To test our hypothesis, linear regression and bipartite network analyses were performed to visualize the interactions between fishermen groups and LEK themes. The connectivity, nesting, modularity, and centrality parameters in this social network were calculated to test the hypothesis. ResultsOur results indicate that experienced fishers enhance LEK in their networks on the themes of food, mortality, and growth. Furthermore, there are subgroups of fishers with dissimilar knowledge about the exploited shrimp species, one old on the fishery with wide knowledge, other less experienced, just knowing about reproduction and migration themes. ConclusionWe conclude that there is a spatial similarity in the connectivity of fisher’s LEK, mainly concerning the reproductive and migratory dynamics of the target species, but also differences permeated by fishers’ experience and local interests. Managers initiating co-management agreements using reproduction and migration referential variables as benchmarks will be more successful if they incorporate LEK into decision-making. Regional knowledge similarities favor the implementation of management policies at a regional scale potentially reducing conflicts within fishing communities and increasing resource use efficiency.

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Participatory Design of a Monitoring Protocol for the Small-Scale Fisheries at the Community of Tarituba, Paraty, Rj, Brazil

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

What comes after crises? Key elements and insights into feedback amplifying community self-organization

What comes after crises? Key elements and insights into feedback amplifying community self-organization

Communities, conservation and livelihoods

Local Ecological Knowledge Networks in Tropical Artisanal Shrimp Fisheries

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