Framing local ecological knowledge to value marine ecosystem services for the customary sea tenure of aboriginal communities in southern Chile

Luis Outeiro, Claudio Gajardo, Hugo Oyarzo, Francisco Ther, Patricio Cornejo, Sebastian Villasante and Leticia Bas Ventine

Ecosystem Services, 2015, vol. 16, issue C, 354-364

Abstract: Fishing and shellfish activities of aboriginal communities in Southern Chile have been historically associated with a high subsistence value in the past. However, the decrease of abundance of fishery resources jointly with a higher dependency on the aquaculture development and canning industry led to a decrease of dependency on algae gathering with medicinal and fertilizing use. The objectives of the paper are three-fold: (a) to investigate the links between customary uses of aboriginal communities living in the coast with marine ecosystem services (ES), (b) to characterize benefits, values of marine ES used by these communities, (c) to use the ecological knowledge of them to examine their perceptions towards the co-management system of SSF.

Keywords: Traditional and local knowledge; Governance; Marine ecosystem services; Aboriginal communities; Chiloé (Southern Chile) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2015.04.004

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