The São Francisco River was first encountered by Europeans on the 4th of October, 1501-
Saint Francis' Day-by Américo Vespúcio and Gaspar Lemos, hence the river's current name …

Este estudio revisa 39 publicaciones relacionadas al consumo de pescado en la amazonia
brasileña. Según los resultados del estudio se consumen 575 mil toneladas de pescado …

This study characterizes the fishermen and the commercial fishing fleet of the lower Amazon,
based on data collected from 5446 boats operating out of the city of Santarém in 1997. An …

Tropical fisheries, which are considered multi-species, may show selectiveness. We
analyzed the degree of selectivity of fish catches in 46 sites along the Amazon basin through …

Land cover is an important driver of patterns of fish diversity and assemblage structure in
Amazonian floodplains. In the floodplain of the Amazon River, remarkable changes in the …

This paper aims to describe the spatial-temporal variability in catch of the main fishery
resources of the Amazon River and floodplain lakes of the Lower Amazon, as well as …

This book presents a synthesis of the ecology of Amazon fisheries, which can be used to
take management and conservation strategies to a more realistic ecological scale. Most of …

This study addresses human responses to environmental change. In particular, it analyzes
fishing accords, a recent local fishing management instrument created by the floodplain …

We investigated demographic history and population structuring of Colossoma
macropomum sampled from 14 localities in the Amazon basin and the Bolivian sub-basin; …

This study describes and analyses the small-scale fishery in the Piracicaba River, located at
the southeastern Brazil, with regard to the diversity, quantity and composition of fish catches …