So. My Winston Churchill Memorial Trust fellowship is over. Chile is over. It has certainly taught me a lot. I came here with the an innocence somewhere along the lines…
This is my penultimate post. It includes some of the personal opinions from scientists scientists and fishers (unnamed) that I have met along the way. I came out here to…
As with most countries, the funding, science and management structure is complicated, involving many different links, pots of money, authorities and alike. This post very briefly skims a few things…
During my travels I have met with a number of different Chilean scientists to ask them about the fishery, the science and the management systems currently in place in Chile.…
I wrote a post on the 15th December describing the “success” of the Loco fishery and how it has been brought back from a stock collapse by collaborations between science,…
This is a short post to recount a conversation I had with a local Loco diver I met 3 weeks ago. I apologise for the disparity among the sentences, but…
Well, in the last post I showed you a trip I took with some fishers down in the south. I also mentioned, regrettably, that I was unable to get on…
This project focuses on the artisanal fisheries sector in Chile. The majority of this sector is made up of divers and collectors whose catch comprises a whole host of different…
Last week I went to visit the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile to meet Dr Stefan Gelcich, one of the principle scientists researching the artisanal fisheries management systems in Chile.…
I mentioned a while back that “Chile has emerged as a nation that has implemented innovative and original fisheries management strategies early on in its development“. I still have not…