The research starts from questions of the researchers, defined as fundamental to the management planning. But the fishermen demonstrate their demands throughout the research, which result in the adaptation of the field forms, and in new field trips. Trust between the researcher and the communities is also always being built, but in the Amazon environment the contact tends to be successful. thanks for your post.
											

Fishers in the Amazon region are very participative in general, and we build a relationship of trust with them. Besides, we are working with small-scale fishers, traditionally ignored by researchers and government, so the fishers feel valued with the research.

Yes, they are interested, because we ask permission before the research. We still not start working the data with fishers. We talked and sent the reports to protected areas managers. Thank you for your questions and interesting.

Hi Karen,

   Thanks for your post and interest in our research. Yes, fishers were interested in the research and in the results. We showed the data to them in meetings and provided folders with some results to each studied community. We had good discussions about problems in fisheries and management options, but yet not started to do management with them, as we consider this being beyond our scope as researchers. However, we hope our research could stimulate and support management actions to be developed by the communities.

Best,

Renato

Thank you for your comment. Yes, we have learned a lot with fishers communities, their knowledge has been useful to increase our scientific knowledge and to suggest management and conservation measures.

Mariana, very enticing partial note here - I'm thinking your Internet went off. Hope you can come back and tell us more! Thanks again for your terrific work and for sharing it in the Showcase. I can only imagine the challenges are many.

Hi Sarah,

   Thanks for your comment. Yes, besides fishing, we also investigate fishers' local knowledge about fish, including aspects such as reproduction, feeding, habitats, among others. We are still working on these results and should have outputs from that soon.

Best,

Hi Daniel,

   Thanks for that. We agree that it is important to involve fishers as much as possible in data collection, etc., but in this project we still have not done so, because our goal was to make a standardize study in many communities, thus being more difficult to consider and include all questions relevant to each community. Nevertheless, we consider and include fishers' perceptions and concerns about fish abundance, problems in fisheries, etc. We could not spend so much time in each community to be able to involve more them in the data analyses, etc. (after data collection), but may try to do that in selected communities in the near future, if we can raise funds to continue our research there.

Best