The voice of the fishermen of the Gulf of Honduras: Improving regional fisheries management through fisher participation

Heyman, William D.; Granados-Dieseldorff, Pablo

doi:10.1016/j.fishres.2012.02.016

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“…For example, differences in reported catch vary in magnitudes of 4.8–10 times, principally for lobster and finfish catch (e.g. FAO, ; Heyman & Granados‐Dieseldorff, ). To remain conservative, estimates of unreported artisanal catch assumed that reported artisanal catch reflected 50% of total catch from artisanal fisheries from 2001 to 2015.…”

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The hidden value of artisanal fisheries in Honduras

Canty

Funes

Box³

et al. 2019

Fisheries Management Eco

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Declining fisheries catches are a global trend, with management failing to keep pace with growth in fishing effort and technological advances. The economic value of Honduras’ catches was estimated within the industrial and artisanal sectors. Catches were found to be 2.9 times greater than the official statistics between 1950 and 2015. The merging of industrial and artisanal catch data masked the decline in industrial catches and hid the strong growth of artisanal fisheries. In 1996, annual artisanal fisheries landed catches surpassed the industrial fishery sector, and in 2000, the annual net value of artisanal fisheries eclipsed the value of the industrial fisheries. These data highlight the importance of artisanal fisheries in Honduras and challenge the long‐held belief that the industrial sector contributes more to the national economy. The global paucity of fisheries data highlights the need for comprehensive strategies to collect more detailed and accurate fisheries data.

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The hidden value of artisanal fisheries in Honduras

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et al. 2019

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“…, ). Small‐scale fisheries in sheltered areas of Amatique, including Punta de Manabique, contribute to the economy and food security of coastal communities (Andrade and Midré ; Heyman and Granados‐Dieseldorff ).…”

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Life History of the Gray Snapper at the Warm Edge of Its Distribution Range in the Caribbean

Andrade

Santos

2019

Mar Coast Fish

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Knowledge of the life history of populations at the warm edge of their distributional range can provide a better understanding of how they will adapt to climate warming, including potential poleward redistribution. The range of Gray Snapper Lutjanus griseus has the potential to expand along its northern temperate fringe, but little is known about this species in the warmest portion of its range. We studied the age, growth, reproduction, and mortality of commercially caught Gray Snapper in the Guatemalan Caribbean, where sea surface temperature consistently exceeds 26°C. Longevity was estimated as 10 years, and von Bertalanffy growth parameters that were consolidated through Bayesian estimation incorporating earlier estimates from the Caribbean region were as follows: asymptotic length (L∞) was 35 cm, the growth coefficient (K) was 0.56 year−1, and the theoretical age at zero length (t0) was −0.7 year. Gray Snapper grew slowest in April, prior to the rainy season, and at the onset of the reproductive season, which lasted to September. Fifty percent of the Gray Snapper matured at 31 cm and at 3.5 years of age. Gray Snapper had a lower maximum size, longevity, and peak reproductive investment, a protracted spawning season and reproductive life span, and elevated natural mortality at the warm edge of their distribution relative to temperate climates. Despite the plasticity in life history of Gray Snapper observed in this study, their potential to further adapt to warming remains unknown.

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“…). Fishers intuitively recognize spawning aggregations as critical to the perpetuity of their resource, which often increases their willingness to focus management on them to sustain their fishery (Heyman and Granados‐Dieseldorff ; Hamilton et al . ).…”

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“…; Aburto‐Oropeza et al . ; Heyman and Granados‐Dieseldorff ). While FSA protection is not a panacea for all the challenges facing the worlds’ oceans or the shortcomings of traditional fisheries management, nor does it promise to solve all the challenges facing marine‐protected areas and marine conservation, it provides a clear pathway to integrate biodiversity conservation and fisheries management with the potential for strong support by fishers and other stakeholders.…”

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Fish spawning aggregations: where well‐placed management actions can yield big benefits for fisheries and conservation

Heyman²,

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Marine ecosystem management has traditionally been divided between fisheries management and biodiversity conservation approaches, and the merging of these disparate agendas has proven difficult. Here, we offer a pathway that can unite fishers, scientists, resource managers and conservationists towards a single vision for some areas of the ocean where small investments in management can offer disproportionately large benefits to fisheries and biodiversity conservation. Specifically, we provide a series of evidenced‐based arguments that support an urgent need to recognize fish spawning aggregations (FSAs) as a focal point for fisheries management and conservation on a global scale, with a particular emphasis placed on the protection of multispecies FSA sites. We illustrate that these sites serve as productivity hotspots – small areas of the ocean that are dictated by the interactions between physical forces and geomorphology, attract multiple species to reproduce in large numbers and support food web dynamics, ecosystem health and robust fisheries. FSAs are comparable in vulnerability, importance and magnificence to breeding aggregations of seabirds, sea turtles and whales yet they receive insufficient attention and are declining worldwide. Numerous case‐studies confirm that protected aggregations do recover to benefit fisheries through increases in fish biomass, catch rates and larval recruitment at fished sites. The small size and spatio‐temporal predictability of FSAs allow monitoring, assessment and enforcement to be scaled down while benefits of protection scale up to entire populations. Fishers intuitively understand the linkages between protecting FSAs and healthy fisheries and thus tend to support their protection.

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The voice of the fishermen of the Gulf of Honduras: Improving regional fisheries management through fisher participation

Cited by 33 publications

References 35 publications

The hidden value of artisanal fisheries in Honduras

The hidden value of artisanal fisheries in Honduras

Life History of the Gray Snapper at the Warm Edge of Its Distribution Range in the Caribbean

Fish spawning aggregations: where well‐placed management actions can yield big benefits for fisheries and conservation

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