Seasonal variability shapes resilience of small-scale fisheries in Baja California Sur, Mexico

Small-scale fisheries are an important source of food and livelihoods to coastal communities around the world. Understanding the seasonality of fisheries catch and composition is crucial to fisheries management, particularly in the context of changing environmental and socioeconomic conditions. While seasonal variability directly impacts the lives of fishers, most fisheries studies focus on longer-term change. Here we examine seasonal variability in the small-scale fisheries of Baja California Sur, Mexico based on 13 years of government fisheries data. We investigate how four fisheries indicators with direct relevance to ecological resilience–magnitude and variance of landed fish biomass, taxon richness and the proportion of top-trophic-level taxa in total catch–vary within and among years and at multiple spatial scales. We find that these resilience indicators vary both seasonally and spatially. These results highlight the value of finer-scale monitoring and management, particularly for data-poor fisheries.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  PLoS ONE

• Publication date

  2017-08-04

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0182200PMID 28783740PMCID 5544237
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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