@inbook {778, title = {Learning by fishing: Practical science and scientific practice}, booktitle = {Paper presented at Property Rights and the Performance of Natural Resource Systems: Social and Ecological Systems for Presilience and Sustainability, August 29-30, 1994}, year = {1994}, note = {

Similar paper in the book Linking social and ecological systems: Management practices and social mechanisms for building resilience edited by Fikret Berkes and Carl Folke

}, month = {Aug 29-30, 1994}, publisher = {Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, The Royal Academy of Sciences}, organization = {Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, The Royal Academy of Sciences}, address = {Stockholm, Sweden}, abstract = {In many fisheries, resource management is largely informed by professional marine biologists and public officials. Such management often assumes that the extensive knowledge that fisherfolk have achieved, after years of practical experience, is of relatively little use indeed, in many cases there is very little attempt to utilize such knowledge in ecological research and in the process of decision-making. At the same time, much recent research indicates that, given the uncertain (if not chaotic) nature of marine ecosystems, practitioners{\textquoteright} knowledge - knowledge gained on the spot, in the course of production - is of key importance. The aim of the present project is to explore, with particular reference to Icelandic fishing, how indigenous producers acquire knowledge about the ecosystem within which they operate, how their knowledge about the ecosystem within which they operate, how their knowledge differs from that of professional biologists, and to what extent the former could be brought more systematically into the process of resource management for the purpose of ensuring sustainability. (author)}, keywords = {aquatic resources}, url = {http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36470157}, author = {Gísli Pálsson} }