Social networks and fishers' behavior: exploring the links between information flow and fishing success in the Northumberland lobster fishery

Fisheries worldwide are facing overexploitation, yet the social dimensions of fishers' behavior remain under-studied, and there is demand for an improved understanding of social processes that influence fisheries' dynamics. Fishers draw on social relationships to acquire information relati...

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Main Authors: Rachel A. Turner, Nicholas V. C. Polunin, Selina M. Stead
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2014-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss2/art38/