Cited by 97Fish Ecology and Management StudiesFish biology, ecology, and behaviorAquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity

Fish consumption on the Amazon: A review of biodiversity, hydropower and food security issues

Open access
Begossi, A., Salivonchyk, S. V., Hallwass, G., Hanazaki, N., Lopes, P. F. M., Silvano, R. A. M., Dumaresq, D., Pittock, J.·2019·Brazilian Journal of Biology

Abstract

Abstract The lack of knowledge about the majority of fish species harvested in Amazonian small-scale fisheries, in association with impacts from hydroelectric power plants, may lead to biodiversity loss and a decrease in the protein food supply for riverine Amazonians. This study uses existing datasets on fisheries and riverine developmental projects to infer effects associated with fish losses where actual data and outcomes are not available. The targeted fish species’ status may be regarded as either threatened or there being no knowledge of their conservation requirements, biology or ecology. Among the 90 Amazonian fish species that are the most important for the diet of the riverine fishers, 78% are not assessed or their biological information is unknown, according to the IUCN Red List. Consequently, the effects created by the thoroughly disregarded trade-off between energy generation and food security in the planning of Amazonian land use have been worsened by the lack of biological and ecological information on fish species.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1590/1519-6984.186572

Cites

80 of 80 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Amazonian people have one of the highest fish consumption rates in the world.

    “Therefore, it is not surprising that Amazonian people have one of the highest fish consumption rates in the world [10,11,12].”

    From Health Risk Assessment of Mercury Exposure from Fish Consumption in Munduruku Indigenous Communities in the Brazilian Amazon (2021) · cites this paper as [12]

    The Introduction reports that fish make up a major portion of Amazonian diets and gives average consumption as 169 kg per person per year. It does not compare that rate with rates elsewhere or establish that it is among the world's highest. (LLM, conf=0.84)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

2 of the 82 references couldn’t be matched to a known paper.

Research works printed but not linked: 8

  1. BEGOSSI, A. and FIGUEIREDO, L., 1995. Ethnoichthyology of southern coastal fishermen: cases from Búzios Island and Sepetiba Bay (Brazil). Bulletin of Marine Science, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 710-717.
  2. DUGAN, P.J., BARAN, E., THARME, R., PREIN, M., AHMED, R., AMERASINGHE, P., BUENO, P., BROWN, C., DEY, M., JAYASINGHE, G., NIASSE, M., NIELAND, A., SMAKHTIN, V., TINH, N., VISWANATHAN, K. and WELCOMME, R., 2002. The contribution of aquatic ecosystems and fisheries to food security and livelihoods: a research agenda. In: CGIAR. Challenge Program on Water and Food: background papers to the full proposal. Colombo: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. pp. 85-113. Background Paper, no.
  3. FEARNSIDE, P.M., 2015. Highway construction as a force in destruction of the Amazon forest. In: R. VAN DER REE, D.J. SMITH and C. GRILO, eds. Handbook of road ecology. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons Publishers. pp. 414-424. http://dx.doi. org/10.1002/9781118568170.ch51. · DOI
  4. INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE -IUCN, 2014 [viewed 10 July 2015]. IUCN red list [online]. Cambridge: IUCN UK Office. Available from: http:// www.iucnredlist.org/
  5. MOLLE, F., MOLLINGA, P.P. and WESTER, P., 2010. Hydraulic bureaucracies: flows of water, flows of power. Water Alternatives, vol. 2, pp. 328-349.
  6. MORAN, E.F., 1996. The adaptive system of the Amazonian caboclo. Man in the Amazon. 1974; 136: 139-159. Regulated Rivers: Research and Management, vol. 12, pp. 81-98.
  7. PETESSE, M.L. and PETRERE JUNIOR, M., 2012. As barragens e os peixes: o impacto das grandes hidrelétricas nas espécies dos rios represados. Ciência Hoje, vol. 49, pp. 30-35.
  8. SOLARTE, L.G., CASTAÑO, M.L.M., ARENA, A.H. and CHIOSSONE, T., 2008. Global corruption report 2008: corruption in the water sector. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Begossi, A., Salivonchyk, S. V., Hallwass, G., Hanazaki, N., Lopes, P. F. M., Silvano, R. A. M., Dumaresq, D., & Pittock, J.
Affiliations
  • Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) (BR)
  • National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (BY)
  • Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará (BR)
  • Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (BR)
  • Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (BR)
  • Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (BR)
  • Australian National University (AU)
Venue
Brazilian Journal of Biology
Published
2019-04
Volume
79
Issue
2
Pages
345-357
ISSN
  • 1519-6984 (ISSN-L)
  • 1678-4375
OpenAlex
W2898490918
Cited by
94
References
82
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 3
FWCI
5.69
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Brazilian Journal of Biology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Americanae (AECID Library) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Americanae (AECID Library) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • Americanae (AECID Library) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
  • Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (14/24994-8)
  • Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (-8 and)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
Keywords
fish consumption, hydropower impacts, food security, threatened fish species, IUCN Red List, land use planning
MeSH terms
Animals, Brazil, Diet, Fisheries, Fishes, Food Supply, Humans, Power Plants, Seafood, Biodiversity, Rivers

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review