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Conservation-related Attitudes of Lake Fishermen in Greece

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Myrto Pyrovetsi  and
George A. Daoutopoulos
Myrto Pyrovetsi
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Box 134, Aristotelian University, Thessaloniki 540 06, Greece
George A. Daoutopoulos
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Box 246, Aristotelian University, Thessaloniki 540 06, Greece.
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Lakes Visthonis, Kerkini, and Mikri Prespa, in Greece – Mikri Prespa being designated also a national park – although wetlands of international importance, suffer severe conservation problems with a continuous deterioration of their resources. A major cause of this problem is unsustainable utilization of the wetlands by their main users, local fishermen. The aim of this paper is to present several demographic and fishing-activity characteristics of the fishermen, and to analyse the conflict by associating these attributes with the conservation attitudes towards elements of the wetland ecosystems, the pelicans, and other birds.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1989 , pp. 245 - 250
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1989

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