Traditional fishers’ expectationsbefore fishing operationswere
coded andcategorizedfrom1to5.Codesalsoincludeinitialsof
village,dateand fishing operation(time)foreasyrecognition.Inthe
processofcategorization,Number5wasassignedfor fish species
caught exactlyaspertraditional fishers’ expectation,whileNumber
1 wasassignedforthe fish speciesthatwasnotexpectedby
traditional fishersatall.Number2,3and4wereassignedforspecies
slightlyexpected,speciesmediallyexpectedandspeciesexpectedin
theharvestattheshore,respectively.Thequantitiesofeachspecies
(kg) after fishing operationwerealsogiventhesamecode.Thesame
procedurewasrepeatedfor87 fishing operations.Accordingly,two
data files wereprepared;oneconsistedofcodesandspecieslistwith
fishers’ expectations,1–5, whilesecond file consistedofsamecodes
and specieslistwiththeirweightin theharvest(realization).Log
transformation(ln xþ1) for fishers’ expectationandweightofeach
fish species(realization)wascarriedoutinordertoreducethenon-
normalityofthedata.PrincipalComponentAnalysis(PCA)was
carriedoutforlogtransformed fishers’ expectationsand fishers’
realizationsseparately.Parametriccorrelationbetweenthescoresof
first principalcomponent(PC1)for fishers’ expectationandrealiza-
tions wasperformed.Qualitativeanalyses,PCAandparametric
correlationbetween fishers’ expectationsandrealizationwereana-
lysedusingMINITABsoftware(version16).Graphicalillustrations
weremadeusingMSoffice Excel(2007)andExcel3DScatterPlot
(version2.1).