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2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

21. Outcomes of Social-Ecological Experiments in Near-Shore Marine Environments: Cognitive Interpretation of the Impact of Changes in Fishing Gear Type on Ecosystem Form and Function

Authors : Charles G. Curtin, Sarah Hammitt

Published in: Restoring Lands - Coordinating Science, Politics and Action

Publisher: Springer Netherlands

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Abstract

The environment is undergoing profound change due to climatic and other anthropogenic related factors. However, we often cannot anticipate the changes before they happen and thus do not have effective base-lines for decision making, or good means of assessing the rate and extent of change. At the same time even if we could anticipate these changes, the cost of developing sufficient biological data would often be prohibitive. This paper explores the use of social data, to address biological questions. In this example we examine the resilience of near shore marine systems ability to respond to a reduction in fishing pressure as a proxy for understanding the broader ability of the system to adapt to change.

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next chapter Synthesis: Developing the Institutions to Coordinate Science, Politics, and Communities for Action to Restore and Sustain Lands
Footnotes
1
Note that the semi-structured interview approach, as well as the questionnaire was approved for exemption the MIT Committee on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects.
 
2
CmapTools was developed by the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), a university-affiliated research institute of Florida: http://​cmap.​ihmc.​us/​conceptmap.​html
 
3
A wider body distinguished winter migrating herring; spring spawning herring were found in the Bay of Fundy; and fall spawning herring were always the biggest.
 
4
Ironically though stop seines now seem relatively low-tech and low impact, on many of the islands fishermen consistently cite the stop sieners as having the first big impact on nearshore fish populations beginning in the 1960s, with many of the smelt runs gone by the mid 1970s.
 
5
Purse seining is also indiscriminate and must off-load catches that have too much of a restricted species. This means that both the herring and the regulated fish are killed anyway, but are then also thrown away to rot. Stop seining allows the fisherman to be more discriminate in his catch.
 
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Metadata
Title
Outcomes of Social-Ecological Experiments in Near-Shore Marine Environments: Cognitive Interpretation of the Impact of Changes in Fishing Gear Type on Ecosystem Form and Function
Authors
Charles G. Curtin
Sarah Hammitt
Copyright Year
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Book
Restoring Lands - Coordinating Science, Politics and Action

Print ISBN: 978-94-007-2548-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-94-007-2549-2

Copyright Year: 2012

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2549-2_21