Project description
Fisheries over time in Indo-Pacific
Sustainable fisheries mean food security, since fish populations do not decline over time. But this requires monitoring and reporting. Archaeological data are an essential source of information. The Indo-Pacific, one of the most severely threatened marine regions, has had a rich history of exploiting marine resources since the Neolithic era. Nevertheless, a specific taxonomical identification of the remains of Indo-Pacific fish is lacking. Understanding prehistoric fisheries and their impacts over time are critical. The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions PRISTINE project will provide reliable ecological information of fish exploitation from a long-term perspective in the Indo-Pacific region dating back 5 000 years by identifying and quantifying the range of fish species exploited.
Objective
Ensuring sustainable fisheries is one of the key issues to address the conservation of marine biodiversity and socio-economic development. Such approaches usually operate based on fisheries records from the last decades, which are proved to be inappropriate reference criteria for evaluating long-term impacts of fish exploitation whereas archaeological data is increasingly admitted as an essential source of information. One of the most severely threatened marine regions is the Indo-Pacific, which also holds a rich history of marine resources exploitation since, at least, the Neolithic. Specific taxonomical identification of Indo-Pacific fish remains is still a pending task mainly due to the high diversity of fishes exploited and to difficulties in species identification from morphological analysis. This situation impedes acquiring a deep understanding of the prehistoric fisheries and their impacts over time. Through the analyses of archaeological and modern fishes from the Indo-Pacific, PRISTINE will implement a back to the future approach to provide reliable ecological baselines and enhance our current understanding of fish exploitation from a long-term perspective by identifying and quantifying the range of fish species exploited dating back 5,000 years. To this aim, PRISTINE will apply cutting-edge proteomic methodologies to 1) develop a finger-print Collagen Reference Database of representative modern Indo-Pacific fishes, 2) obtain the taxonomical identification of Neolithic fish remains, and 3) achieve a long-term evaluation of Indo-Pacific fisheries. This research will contribute to attempts on the identification of healthy tropical reef fisheries and evaluation of anthropogenic impacts over time to assist in ensuring efforts to conserve the present and manage the future of marine scenarios.
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- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries fisheries
- natural sciences computer and information sciences databases
- humanities history and archaeology history
- natural sciences biological sciences ecology ecosystems
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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75005 Paris
France
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