
Big Impacts from Small-Scale Fisheries
January 16, 2025 | Source: Standford School of Sustainability | by Josie Garthwaite
Xavier Basurto, a professor of environmental social sciences in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, co-led the study while on the faculty at the Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment.
The research is the result of an ongoing collaboration aimed at generating and disseminating new evidence about the benefits, interactions, and impacts of small-scale fisheries to inform policy and practice. Study co-author Nicole Franz, who leads a team focused on equitable livelihoods for the Fisheries and Aquaculture Division of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), originally conceived of the project, called the Illuminating Hidden Harvests Initiative. Starting in February 2025, she will be a research scholar at the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions.
Basurto and Franz discussed the new research, their inspiration, and efforts to make small-scale fisheries more visible in science and policy.