Consilient knowledge in fisheries: a case study of three species of wolffish (Anarhichadidae) listed under the Canadian Species at Risk Act

Three species of wolffish have been listed under Canada's Species at Risk Act with consequences for commercial fisheries. Because harvester based local ecological knowledge (LEK) and science knowledge differ in goals, spatial and temporal scale, and mode of generalization, the current system st...

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Main Authors: Jennifer Dawe, David Schneider
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2014-09-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss3/art26/