NO PRESENTE trabalho é feita uma síntese dos conhecimentos sobre a atividade
pesqueira na Amazônia, incluindo histórico, potencial e tipos de pesca, composição do …

Fishery ecology conservation in South America is a pressing issue. The biodiversity of
fishes, just as with all other groups of plants and animals, is far from fully known. Continuing …

Fish serves as the principal source of animal protein for the indigenous people of the
Amazon, ensuring their food and nutritional security. However, gold mining causes mercury …

Stretching more than seven million square kilometers, the Amazon River basin is the largest
river basin in the world and discharges about one-sixth of all freshwater from the continents …

Este estudio revisa 39 publicaciones relacionadas al consumo de pescado en la amazonia
brasileña. Según los resultados del estudio se consumen 575 mil toneladas de pescado …

Artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) in the Amazon results in the dum** of tons of
mercury into the environment annually. Despite consensus on the impacts of mercury on …

Assessment of data-limited fish stocks is a rapidly evolving topic in marine fisheries, and is
supported by an increasing focus on the socio-economic and ecological importance of small …

Globally, community-based initiatives are effective in protecting ecosystems and the species
within them. In this paper, we analyze the emergence and large-scale expansion of a …

This book presents a synthesis of the ecology of Amazon fisheries, which can be used to
take management and conservation strategies to a more realistic ecological scale. Most of …

Tropical small-scale fisheries are highly heterogeneous with respect to a wide range of
fisheries characteristics, but that heterogeneity has generally not been adequately studied or …