Elizabeth Mansfield

Mar 26, 2025 | ecologyandsociety.org | Elizabeth Mansfield |Sarah Lester |Andrew Rassweiler |Sandra Brooke |Adrian Williams

ResearchABSTRACTHistorically fishery-dependent communities can have significant economic, social, and cultural ties to key species, the loss of which can cause cascading impacts throughout the community, extending beyond fishers. Understanding the different ways communities depend on a species, and how the species’ loss may reverberate through the community, is key for holistic ecosystem management approaches.