Abstract
The impact of aquaculture in southern Chile has been significant on both an ecological and a social scale. Social-ecological changes on the Chiloé Archipelago are altering relationships between humans and the natural resources that they rely on for subsistence and income. Artsisanal fisheries, in particular, have felt this change, as international, large-scale salmon farms have spread across the region, causing a disruption of ecosystem services and livelihoods. Through a case study of an aquaculture cooperative in a Chilote community, I explain how small-scale, locally managed aquaculture firms of an endemic mollusk species can serve as a model for social-ecological resilience, as well as sustainable aquaculture, communities, and ecosystems.
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Personal communication, Chonchi , 2005.
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Don Romelio Cárdenas , personal communication, Chonchi 2005.
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Hugo Mansilla , Llingua , December 2017 (interviewed by Anton Daughters).
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Don Raul Colivoro, personal communication, Chonchi 2005.
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Don Raul Colivoro, personal communication, Chonchi 2005.
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Personal communication, Chonchi 2004
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Sernapesca defines an artisanal boat as one that is less than 18 meters in length.
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Personal Communication, Chonchi 2004.
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Data were analyzed in SPSS. One-way ANOVA and the Dunnett’s T3 post-hoc test were used to produce results that looked for and compared significance across the groups and subgroups, which were the social-ecological indicators (dependent variables) and occupation (independent variables).
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Pitchon, A. (2018). Local Knowledge, Local Networks, and Successful Cooperative Mussel Aquaculture on Chiloé. In: Daughters, A., Pitchon, A. (eds) Chiloé. Ethnobiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91983-6_2
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