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Indigenous fish names for some cats and indigenous fishing practices

Posted: 23 Feb 2016, 23:34
by bekateen
Since this isn't specifically a catfish research paper, I won't place it in the Taxonomy & Science News forum. SInce it's about local people, the Travellers note book forum seems most appropriate.


Carlos Alberto Batista Santos & Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves. 2016. Ethnoichthyology of the indigenous Truká people, Northeast Brazil. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 12:1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13002-015-0076-5
ABSTRACT
Background: Historically, fishing is an important activity for riverine communities established along the São Francisco River, including indigenous communities. In the present study, we researched fishing activities in two villages of the Truká ethnic group, both located in the State of Pernambuco along the sub-middle section of the São Francisco River, Northeast Brazil. We recorded the richness and uses of the fished species and the ecological knowledge on these species, the fishing techniques employed and the perception of the indigenous people regarding current environmental impacts on the São Francisco River that influence local fishing.
Method: The information was obtained through interviews with 33 Truká fishers (27 men and six women), including 17 interviewees from Central Village (Cabrobó) and 16 from Tapera Village (Orocó).
Results: Using five fishing techniques, the interviewees caught 25 fish species, including 21 native and four exotic species. All species are used as food, and two species are used in traditional Truká medicine. The interviewees revealed that fishing currently has less importance in their subsistence. They indicated that this situation is occurring because of several factors, such as the introduction of exotic species, pollution and urbanization, that have impacted the São Francisco River, resulting in a decline of fishing resources. Nevertheless, we found that the indigenous people who are still fishing have a broad knowledge of the habitat and ecology of the target fishing.
Conclusion: Although fishing is declining in importance among the Truká, we found that the individuals who are still practicing this activity have a broad knowledge about the habitat and ecology of the target species and apply that knowledge to fishing methods. Knowledge about the ecology of the species and the environmental impacts that have affected them can support basic research on local fish populations and research investigating the environmental impacts, resource management and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources.
From inside the paper, there is this info in Table 1:
Local species name / Scientific species name

Loricariidae
 Cananã / Regan, 1808
 Cascudo / Spix & Agassiz, 1829
 Xotó / Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1888
 Cari / Spix & Agassiz, 1829

Pimelodidae
 Pirá / Valenciennes, 1840
 Surubim / Spix & Agassiz, 1829

Pseudopimelodide
 Pacamã / Steindachner, 1877

Auchenipteridae
 Caboge / Linnaeus, 1766

Heptapteridae
 Mandim / Lütken, 1874
Table 2 and Table 3 in the paper are also interesting: Table 2 describes the depth at which these species are collected, and Table 3 describes the types of river patches (waterfalls, rapids, rocky, etc) the species are found in.

Re: Indigenous fish names for some cats and indigenous fishing practices

Posted: 23 Feb 2016, 23:50
by racoll
Pseudopimelodide
 Pacamã / Lophiosilurus alexandri Steindachner, 1877
That's scarily similar to the English common name "Pacman catfish". If it's not just a weird coincidence, I wonder which is derived from the other?

Re: Indigenous fish names for some cats and indigenous fishing practices

Posted: 24 Feb 2016, 00:08
by bekateen
Yes that is a close.

Also, I'm curious - Why does the CLOG link for redirect to the AquaticRepublic CLOG page instead of the PlanetCatfish CLOG page? (and in case you're wondering why I didn't correct the scientific name to , it was because I was quoting from the paper).

The reason why this is weird is - if you hover your mouse over the CLOG link for Parauchenipterus galeatus, the URL displayed in the status bar at the bottom of the page is the PlanetCatfish URL. But when you click the link, you are redirected to the AquaticRepublic page for Trachelyopterus galeatus instead of the PlanetCatfish page for Trachelyopterus galeatus.

Cheers, Eric

Re: Indigenous fish names for some cats and indigenous fishing practices

Posted: 24 Feb 2016, 07:12
by Jools
bekateen wrote:Also, I'm curious - Why does the CLOG link for redirect to the AquaticRepublic CLOG page instead of the PlanetCatfish CLOG page? (and in case you're wondering why I didn't correct the scientific name to , it was because I was quoting from the paper).
It's actually meant to work like that. Beacause you're on Planet then the clog link is created as it is. Because isn't a valid species on Planet, it goes to look for it on AR. Becuase it's a synonym, it ends up finding on AR. You could argue it should try Planet for the synonym first.

Jools

Re: Indigenous fish names for some cats and indigenous fishing practices

Posted: 24 Feb 2016, 12:03
by bekateen
Thanks for the explanation, Jools. No, it's not a problem, just a surprise. :-)

Cheers, Eric

Re: Indigenous fish names for some cats and indigenous fishing practices

Posted: 25 Feb 2016, 08:55
by Jools
Yeah, I think I should change it so that if it's a catfish synonym, it should go to the Planet page. The script that drives this is shared with AR (and any other potential future order, family or genus specific site) and so I just need to ensure the behaviour is desired!

I think, in this case, the change is the right thing to do.

Jools

Re: Indigenous fish names for some cats and indigenous fishing practices

Posted: 25 Feb 2016, 13:31
by bekateen
Jools wrote:Yeah, I think I should change it so that if it's a catfish synonym, it should go to the Planet page. The script that drives this is shared with AR (and any other potential future order, family or genus specific site) and so I just need to ensure the behaviour is desired!

I think, in this case, the change is the right thing to do.

Jools
Jools wrote:Yeah, I think I should change it so that if it's a catfish synonym, it should go to the Planet page. The script that drives this is shared with AR (and any other potential future order, family or genus specific site) and so I just need to ensure the behaviour is desired!

I think, in this case, the change is the right thing to do.

Jools
You'd better be more careful Jools, or some admin is going to come along and warn you not to double post. =)) =)) :d

Have a nice day! Eric

Re: Indigenous fish names for some cats and indigenous fishing practices

Posted: 27 Feb 2016, 08:52
by Jools
Ha. I think my double post to single post ratio is rather better than the admonished newbie... :-)

Jools