Collaborative Research: Resilience, Experimentation, and Collapse in Small-Scale Fisheries

合作研究：小规模渔业的恢复力、实验和崩溃

• 批准号: 2312166
• 负责人: Leslie Reeder-Myers
• 金额: $ 20.52万
• 依托单位: Temple University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-03-01 至 2027-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2312166&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Resilience; Experimentation; Collapse

This study examines the small-scale coastal fisheries and the resilience of these fishing systems to global environmental changes, including changes in sea levels, land use modifications, and fluctuations in the densities of fishing stocks. This project provides longitudinal insights into the resilience of fisheries by studying the determinants of fishing behavior and outputs over the past two millennia in a coastal mangrove wetland. The research leverages diverse archaeological methods to consider multiple hypotheses for sharp declines in the productivity of the ancient fishery. More generally, the project reveals the potentially complex and dynamic relationships between ecological variables, political factors, and the culture and demography of the human populations. The archaeological methods are complemented by observations of modern fishing behavior, which provide holistic insights into the long-term resilience of past subsistence behavior. Multiple students contribute to the research, and a central aim of the project is to develop a collaborative museum exhibit that contextualizes the findings. The project also convenes a workshop to advance sustainable management of the fishery.Drawing on perspectives from human ecology, the research examines fluctuations in the productivity of a mangrove fishery as a function of multiple related variables, including intrinsic dynamic variation in the ecological structure of lagoons, the political organization of local communities, and the alternation of adjacent land for agricultural activities. Complemented by sediment cores, archaeological excavations yield diverse evidence for studying the productivity of the fishery. Radiocarbon samples establish the chronology of the site, and the remains of crustaceans and pollen and other botanical remains help to characterize ecological changes over time. Zooarchaeological analysis of middens provide insights into the varying harvests of different fish species over time. Additional analyses of ceramics and stone tools are used to assess variation in social and political variation and dynamic patterns of agricultural subsistence. Collectively, these data provide insights into the causes and consequences of changes in the productivity of small-scale fisheries. In addition to contributions to archaeological theory, the findings of this study inform management strategies of contemporary fisheries. The project also contributes to the training and educational of diverse early-career scholars.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

本研究考察了小规模沿海渔业以及这些捕捞系统对全球环境变化的适应能力，包括海平面变化、土地利用变化和渔业资源密度波动。该项目通过研究过去两千年沿海红树林湿地捕捞行为和产量的决定因素，提供对渔业复原力的纵向见解。该研究利用多种考古方法来考虑古代渔业生产力急剧下降的多种假设。更一般地说，该项目揭示了生态变量、政治因素以及人口文化和人口结构之间潜在的复杂和动态关系。考古方法辅以对现代捕鱼行为的观察，为过去生存行为的长期恢复能力提供了全面的见解。多名学生为这项研究做出了贡献，该项目的中心目标是开发一个合作博物馆展览，将研究结果结合起来。该项目还召开了一个研讨会，以促进渔业的可持续管理。该研究从人类生态学的角度出发，研究了红树林渔业生产力的波动作为多个相关变量的函数，包括泻湖生态结构的内在动态变化、当地社区的政治组织以及相邻土地的农业活动的交替。考古发掘以沉积岩芯为补充，为研究渔业生产力提供了多种证据。放射性碳样本确定了该地点的年代顺序，甲壳类动物和花粉以及其他植物遗骸的遗骸有助于描述随时间推移的生态变化。对贝丘的动物考古学分析提供了对不同鱼类随时间变化的收获的见解。对陶瓷和石器的额外分析用于评估社会和政治变化以及农业生存的动态模式的变化。总的来说，这些数据可以深入了解小型渔业生产力变化的原因和后果。除了对考古理论的贡献外，这项研究的结果还为当代渔业的管理策略提供了信息。该项目还为多样化的早期职业学者的培训和教育做出了贡献。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。