12
here, it is possible to realize that there is no decrease and the subject is still in vogue
(Fig. 1.6). Instead, the so-called accidental mortality in fishing nets and entanglements of marine mammals in cables and ‘ghost nets’ at sea – an issue of extreme
importance in the early twenty-first century – is not getting the necessary attention.
1.2.2 Perspectives in Latin America
Somehow, there was a growing involvement of new researchers, expansion of
expertise areas and consolidation of several research groups in Latin-America. On
the other hand, some countries failed to conduct a proper replacement of human
resources devoted to advanced studies. It may lead them to a collapse of human
resources, especially in international economic crisis times.
Studies with stable isotopes, satellite tagging on migratory species, reviews of
environmental-organic contamination and oxidative stress, bone DNA extraction,
microsatellite locus, molecular eschatology, animal health ratings, use of computed
tomography (CT scans), improvements in imaging quality and sound and complex
population modeling have received more attention, but it is necessary to improve the
overall research efforts. The incorporation of new analytical techniques and modeling was remembered by Oliva (2012), but the challenge, she said, is to move from a
population-based approach to an ecosystem approach. Such perception seems to be
quite adequate; however, there is no stimulating panorama on that aspect yet.
Campagna (1998) already anticipated that we were going through a descriptivenaturalistic start to a technological-instrumental stage, and the future of our science
seemed to be dictated by the technological development. He ruled that we were part
of a settled science in content, but juvenile in its influences, and it delegates the own
trend to computers rather than taking the helm of the situation.
84
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
86 88 90
Strandings
Incidental Capture
92 94 96 98 0
YEARS
2 4 6 8 10 12 14
A
B
S
T
R
A
C
T
S
Fig. 1.6 Abstracts covering studies of strandings and accidental captures in fishing nets, over 32
years, in the Meeting of Specialists on Aquatic Mammals in Latin America (RTs)
P.C. Simões-Lopes
here, it is possible to realize that there is no decrease and the subject is still in vogue
(Fig. 1.6). Instead, the so-called accidental mortality in fishing nets and entanglements of marine mammals in cables and ‘ghost nets’ at sea – an issue of extreme
importance in the early twenty-first century – is not getting the necessary attention.
1.2.2 Perspectives in Latin America
Somehow, there was a growing involvement of new researchers, expansion of
expertise areas and consolidation of several research groups in Latin-America. On
the other hand, some countries failed to conduct a proper replacement of human
resources devoted to advanced studies. It may lead them to a collapse of human
resources, especially in international economic crisis times.
Studies with stable isotopes, satellite tagging on migratory species, reviews of
environmental-organic contamination and oxidative stress, bone DNA extraction,
microsatellite locus, molecular eschatology, animal health ratings, use of computed
tomography (CT scans), improvements in imaging quality and sound and complex
population modeling have received more attention, but it is necessary to improve the
overall research efforts. The incorporation of new analytical techniques and modeling was remembered by Oliva (2012), but the challenge, she said, is to move from a
population-based approach to an ecosystem approach. Such perception seems to be
quite adequate; however, there is no stimulating panorama on that aspect yet.
Campagna (1998) already anticipated that we were going through a descriptivenaturalistic start to a technological-instrumental stage, and the future of our science
seemed to be dictated by the technological development. He ruled that we were part
of a settled science in content, but juvenile in its influences, and it delegates the own
trend to computers rather than taking the helm of the situation.
84
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
86 88 90
Strandings
Incidental Capture
92 94 96 98 0
YEARS
2 4 6 8 10 12 14
A
B
S
T
R
A
C
T
S
Fig. 1.6 Abstracts covering studies of strandings and accidental captures in fishing nets, over 32
years, in the Meeting of Specialists on Aquatic Mammals in Latin America (RTs)
P.C. Simões-Lopes