ABSTRACT
This chapter narrates the patchy epistemologies of Fishers in their everyday livelihood practices. Through relevant illustrations, it provides an in-depth understanding of Fishers’ knowledge system in predicting environmental change and extreme weather events in their eco-social worlds. The discussion in this chapter showcases the embedded nature of Fishers’ epistemology that is symbiotic to their rhythmic relationships with Fish and Oceans. Climate forecasting happens through a mutually entangled interaction between Fishers and Fish. They are beings situated in Nature’s rhythmic dance. Every story, metaphor, or proverb shared is part of patchy epistemologies and may not have the necessary logic of causality, to validate or correlate them with the principles of sciences. Moreover, the contexts of these stories vary from one coast, culture, or eco-social world to another, hinting at the situatedness of their lived experiences and knowledge in a multi-species entangled world. In continuation to the previous chapter, this chapter also looks at the impact of capitalism’s advancement on the Fisheries and Ocean frontier.
