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Wild Earth 12, no. 4
Wild Earth 12, no. 4, features an interview with Sylvia Earle on “Our Oceans, Ourselves,” essays on worldwide fishing and consumer conscience, on launching a sea ethic, and the food web complexity in kelp forest ecosystems.
Gonzalez Carman, Victoria, and Maria Carman, "A Coexistence of Paradigms: Understanding Human–environmental Relations of Fishers Involved in the Bycatch of Threatened Marine Species"
Victoria Gonzalez Carman and Maria Carman focus on the interaction between a fishing community and a group of conservation experts in Brazil. They find that although fishers classify species according to their capacity to be exploited as a resource, they may also be willing to become strategic conservationists by negotiating with conservation experts to protect some of these species.
"Overfishing or Over Reacting? Management of Fisheries in the Pantanal Wetland, Brazil"
The article explores the complex socio-environmental relations of small-scale inland fishing by using the Pantanal wetland in Brazil as a case study and attempts to deconstruct environmental narratives behind top-down fishing management practices.