Overfishing or Over Reacting? Management of Fisheries in the Pantanal Wetland, Brazil

• DOI: 10.4103/0972-4923.196632
• Publication Date: 2016-12-23T12:11:37Z
• Authors: RafaelMorais Chia...
• Keywords: Overfishing; Fisheries law

Historically, small-scale inland fisheries have been overlooked. Management practices based on industrial fishing, rarely take into account vital factors such as complex socio-environmental relations. This paper aims to help address this gap, contributing a better understanding of fisheries. It uses the Pantanal wetland Brazil case study, in which policymakers established restrictive fishing rules claims that local overfishing had caused numbers recreational tourists decline. Through multiple regressions, participatory observation and mapping, deconstructs environmental narrative uncovers area's traditional system use. The firstly illustrates adverse consequences misconceived top-down management and, how narratives may be deconstructed. Then it presents important aspects customary floodplains fisheries, including high levels mobility within common property regime unexploitable reserves. concludes by analysing recently proposed categories regimes, identifying fundamental elements must taken designing appropriate policies floodplain