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5/20/2019 | 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM | THE CITIZEN SCIENCE FOR THE AMAZON PROJECT: TRACKING FISH MIGRATIONS TO IMPROVE SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT AND EMPOWER CITIZENS ACROSS THE AMAZON BASIN | 151 DEF

THE CITIZEN SCIENCE FOR THE AMAZON PROJECT: TRACKING FISH MIGRATIONS TO IMPROVE SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT AND EMPOWER CITIZENS ACROSS THE AMAZON BASIN

In the Amazon, migratory fishes are central to the river’s ecology, as well as to people’s food security and livelihoods. However, sustainable management of Amazonian fisheries requires data collection across vast and remote areas, and analyses that link processes occurring from local to basin-wide scales and targeting diverse stakeholders. Here we report on the Citizen Science for the Amazon Project, which uses a citizen science approach to understand the ecological drivers of fish migrations across the Amazon Basin, while empowering the peoples of the region to work towards freshwater conservation and fisheries management. Since the project launch in April 2018, we have built a network of more than 30 collaborating organizations and engaged more than 150 users in using an application called Ictio (ictio.org) for tracking fish migrations from the Andes to the estuary. However, barriers to building a network of citizen scientists in the Amazon include a lack of telecommunications infrastructure, scientific literacy and motivation across a diversity of actors. In the next phase, improving recruitment to generate data at the necessary scale while providing strong utility to the fishing community will be priorities for achieving the project’s goals.

Conservation
Education
Fish

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Mariana Varese (), Wildlife Conservation Society, mvarese@wcs.org;