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One of the goals that Ana established for her PhD is to understand a little more about the small-scale fishers from Brazilian northeastern coast, bringing their knowledge closer to the academic science. She intended to do that by combining fishers’ knowledge in marine sciences with published literature, showing that fishers could help fill gaps in scientific information.   She has just achieved this goal by publishing her most recent study , which is described below. Ana knows that filling such gaps with alternative methods is especially relevant in data poor places, where such knowledge could be used to base management plans and public policies. Ana used information she got from fishers and information from the literature to build two marine ecosystem virtual models: one based on scientific information and another one based on conversations with fishers. The models were built in the free software Ecopath with Ecosim, which is nothing more than a computational progra