Recovering diversity in salmon populations and cultures of fishing: the subarctic River Teno basin as a confluence and a Living Lab (RecoSal) is a Biodiversa+ funded BiodivProtect project.
The overall objective of RecoSal is to strengthen the evidential knowledge base for collaborative governance and recovery of the diverse Atlantic salmon population complex of the Teno system. The more specific objectives include: 1) to develop a probabilistic model framework for evaluation of the status of salmon populations that incorporates the life cycle dynamics of various sub-populations, enables estimation of various sources of mortality, estimation of stock specific targets and spawner stocks, and investigations on how inclusion of indigenous and local knowledge could help improve the assessment methods; 2) to produce a first-generation participatory planning model for processes of collaborative, sustainable and socially acceptable salmon management in the Teno region and provide advice on its applicability in governance; and 3) to integrate biological and governance models in a transdisciplinary framework and ensure that co-produced knowledge meet the formal decision requirements on Teno salmon management in a useful form for decision-makers, stakeholders, and Indigenous and local communities, i.e., the Living Lab participants.