Artisanal fishers' knowledge can provide practical information for management, and when shared, can help build trust between fishers and managers.
Just as fast food is yielding to slow food, and supermarket beer to micro-brewed, it's time to get artisanal about knowledge: #toknowtakeitslow.
It might not be the easiest path, but this is just one battle in their struggle to assert that the best solutions to climate change are those based on their traditional knowledge and artisanal practices.
Even the grandest of his architectural commissions are characterized by the intimate knowledge of materials, techniques and artisanal traditions, as well as by the conceptual ingenuity and improvisational flair fostered by his nocturnal experiments at the glassworks.
That way is what he and co-author Shawn Welch call "artisanal publishing," and they've condensed that knowledge into a new book, APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur - How to Publish Your Book.
These findings fill a fundamentally important gap in our knowledge of the ecosystem effects of artisanal fisheries in developing nations, and provide support for multiple approaches to data collection where they are commonly unavailable.
Particular gear types, including industrially-deployed seines, and the artisanal fisheries sector also constitute significant gaps in our knowledge of seabird bycatch patterns worldwide.
With artisanal fisheries comprising >95% of the world's fishermen, this knowledge gap presents a major challenge to threatened species conservation and sustainable fisheries initiatives.
With supportive peers from a cheese-making class at a local university, the entrepreneur created the Ontario Cheese Society (OCS) to promote knowledge creation and transfer in the area of artisanal cheese-making.
For Partida, it's all an attempt at doing away with artisanal producers, wiping out a way of life and the ancestral knowledge of making mezcal "not written down in any books".
