Fish consumption on the Amazon: a review of biodiversity, hydropower and food security issues
Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: The lack of knowledge about the majority of fish species harvested in Amazonian small-scale fisheries, in association with impacts from hydroelectric power plants, may lead to biodiversity loss and a decrease in the protein food supply for riverine Amazonians. This study uses existing datasets on fisheries and riverine developmental projects to infer effects associated with fish losses where actual data and outcomes are not available. The targeted fish species' status may be regarded as either threatened or there being no knowledge of their conservation requirements, biology or ecology. Among the 90 Amazonian fish species that are the most important for the diet of the riverine fishers, 78% are not assessed or their biological information is unknown, according to the IUCN Red List. Consequently, the effects created by the thoroughly disregarded trade-off between energy generation and food security in the planning of Amazonian land use have been worsened by the lack of biological and ecological information on fish species.
Source: Brazilian Journal of Biology
Institutions: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Universidade Santa Cecília, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Institute of Nature Management, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Australian National University
Language: English
Subfield: Nature and Landscape Conservation
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $680
OpenAlex ID: W2898490918