Publications by authors named "Ludmila de Melo Alves Damasio"
Background: In small-scale fishery, information provided by fishers has been useful to complement current and past lack of knowledge on species and environment.
Methodology: Through interviews, 82 fishers from the largest fishing communities on the north and south borders of a Brazilian northeastern coastal state provided estimates of the catch per unit effort (CPUE) and rank of species abundance of their main target fishes for three time points: current year (2013 at the time of the research), 10, and 20 years past. This information was contrasted to other available data sources: scientific sampling of fish landing (2013), governmental statistics (2003), and information provided by expert fishers (1993), respectively.