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In such data-limited regions, fishers' local ecological knowledge (FLEK) is a valuable tool for reconstructing historical baselines. Using FLEK from 21 surveys, we quantified historical and current elasmobranch diversity around Curaçao. Participatory mapping identified spatial distributional changes of 14 elasmobranch species, comparing the time of the surveys with fishers' career beginnings. Temporal trends were analysed alongside shifts in fishing efforts, socioeconomic contexts and perceptions of fishery management. Between 1957 and 2009, we identified 36 spatial hotspots of elasmobranch richness, which declined to 14 hotspots from 2010 to 2022, with a 4.3-fold greater likelihood of hotspots occurring in the past. Species richness in these areas significantly decreased from 7.44 ± 1.00 (mean ± s.e.) to 3.00 ± 1.18 species, while the number of fishers increased from 2.86 ± 0.23 fishers to 5.14 ± 0.49 per hotspot. 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