Local ecological knowledge and fisheries management: a study among riverine fishing communities in Kerala, India

Santha, Sunil D.

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“…LEK systems as cultural diversity are deeply interconnected with biological diversity and the erosion of one can profoundly impact the other [ 68 , 69 ]. Where knowledge about plants is lost, there is a risk of a knock on effect leading to the erosion of natural resources [ 70 ], a loss of biodiversity [ 71 , 72 ] and the disappearance of plant species [ 47 , 59 , 73 – 75 ]. Conversely, the decline in the number of used species and their diversity can result in a loss or transformation of knowledge [ 26 , 76 , 77 ].…”

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Global trends of local ecological knowledge and future implications

2018

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Local and indigenous knowledge is being transformed globally, particularly being eroded when pertaining to ecology. In many parts of the world, rural and indigenous communities are facing tremendous cultural, economic and environmental changes, which contribute to weaken their local knowledge base. In the face of profound and ongoing environmental changes, both cultural and biological diversity are likely to be severely impacted as well as local resilience capacities from this loss. In this global literature review, we analyse the drivers of various types of local and indigenous ecological knowledge transformation and assess the directionality of the reported change. Results of this analysis show a global impoverishment of local and indigenous knowledge with 77% of papers reporting the loss of knowledge driven by globalization, modernization, and market integration. The recording of this loss, however, is not symmetrical, with losses being recorded more strongly in medicinal and ethnobotanical knowledge. Persistence of knowledge (15% of the studies) occurred in studies where traditional practices were being maintained consiously and where hybrid knowledge was being produced as a resut of certain types of incentives created by economic development. This review provides some insights into local and indigenous ecological knowledge change, its causes and implications, and recommends venues for the development of replicable and comparative research. The larger implication of these results is that because of the interconnection between cultural and biological diversity, the loss of local and indigenous knowledge is likely to critically threaten effective conservation of biodiversity, particularly in community-based conservation local efforts.

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“…Priyambodo et al 2015). Although less studied than coastal fisheries, local environmental knowledge has been identified as a driver in fisher methodological decisions in other river-floodplain fisheries, including the Ganga River and Pamba-Achankovil River in India (Santha 2008;Dey et al 2019), Xingu River in Brazil (Mesquita and Isaac-Nahum 2015), and upper Zambezi River in Namibia (Abbott and Campbell 2009), and appears important to ARB crayfish harvesters as well. Unlike global inland capture fisheries that are commonly focused on local consumption (Welcomme et al 2010;Lynch et al 2016) and multiple species (Welcomme et al 2010;Kolding and van Swieten 2011), crayfish harvesters primarily focus only on crayfish during the season [with many switching to primarily blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun for their season] and sell their catch to distributers for sale in large, regional urban centers; like fishers worldwide, local environmental knowledge is still an important decision making factor for these harvesters.…”

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Influence of water quality, local knowledge and river–floodplain connectivity on commercial wild crayfish harvesting in the Atchafalaya River Basin

Vargas-Lopez

Kelso

Bonvillain

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Fisheries Management Eco

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“…Local knowledge systems refer to knowledge generated through observation and experience of local environment by a particular community who are in close interaction with nature (Berkes, 2008; Srang-iam, 2013). It maintains intrinsic values that are inter-woven with the culture of traditional communities (Dekens, 2007; Santha, 2008). It evolves over time within a particular culture, which also provides local communities the capacity to adapt to uncertainties and changing circumstances (Dixon, 2005; Riggs, 2005; Sillitoe, 1998).…”

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Local knowledge, early warning and coastal hazards: Participatory inquiry among fishworkers in Kerala, India

Santha

Gahana²,

Aswin

2014

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This paper demonstrates that local knowledge systems are inherent elements of people's capacity to forecast natural hazards and thereby reduce disaster risk. It describes the local knowledge systems prevalent among traditional fishworkers in Kerala to predict and forecast coastal hazards. Apart from diverse techniques of participatory inquiry, in-depth interviews were carried out with 400 fishing households across 20 marine fishing villages of the state. The socially constructed nature of coastal hazards is demonstrated as a holistic phenomenon namely kolu. The empirical knowledge related to forecasting and prediction of kolu is thus explained in terms of biotic, oceanic, atmospheric and celestial spheres. This paper asserts the need for effective community-based early warning systems that are deeply embedded in the livelihood struggles and lifeworld of marginalised resource-dependent communities.

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Local ecological knowledge and fisheries management: a study among riverine fishing communities in Kerala, India

Cited by 18 publications

References 7 publications

Global trends of local ecological knowledge and future implications

Global trends of local ecological knowledge and future implications

Influence of water quality, local knowledge and river–floodplain connectivity on commercial wild crayfish harvesting in the Atchafalaya River Basin

Local knowledge, early warning and coastal hazards: Participatory inquiry among fishworkers in Kerala, India

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