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A traditional floodplain fishery of the lower Amazon River, Brasil
(1998)Type: Journal ArticleThis paper describes fishing activities of households in four communities located in a floodplain lake system of the lower Amazon river. An average of 42 households were interviewed about their fishing activity on a monthly ... -
A trophic ecosystem model of Lake George, Uganda
(1993)Type: Book ChapterA trophic model of Lake George, Uganda, Central Africa was constructed using published quantitative and qualitative information on the various biotic components of the lake and the ECOPATH II approach and software. It is ... -
A trophic model of the coastal fisheries ecosystem off the west coast of Sabah and Sarawak, Malaysia
(2003)Type: Book ChapterA mass-balance steady-state trophic model of the coastal fisheries ecosystem off the West Coasts of Sabah and Sarawak, Malaysia (10 - 60 m depth) was constructed using the Ecopath software. The ecosystem models were ... -
A typology of fisheries management tools: using experience to catalyse greater success
(2016)Type: Journal ArticleFisheries provide nutrition and livelihoods for coastal populations, but many fisheries are fully or over-exploited and we lack an approach for analysing which factors affect management tool performance. We conducted a ... -
A viability analysis for a bio-economic model
(2001)Type: Journal ArticleThis paper presents a simple dynamic model dealing with the management of a marine renewable resource. But instead of studying the ecological and economic interactions in terms of equilibrium or optimal control, we pay ... -
A workshop on length-based methods in fisheries analysis in the Solomon Islands
(1989)Type: Journal ArticleA brief account is given of a workshop organized by the South Pacific Research Coordination Unit of the ForumFisheries Agency in order to examine the use of length frequency data as a tool in fish population assessment in ... -
AAS 2013 Annual report
(2014)Type: ReportThe CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) takes an innovative approach to improving the lives of poor and vulnerable rural households. It aims to directly benefit some 6 million people (in Asia's ... -
AAS practice brief: Evaluating natural resource management programs
(2013)Type: BriefNatural resource management research (NRMR) has a key role in improving food security and reducing poverty and malnutrition in environmentally sustainable ways, especially in rural communities in the developing world. ... -
AAS program update April
(2014)Type: NewsletterLatest newsletter on the progress of AAS activities and programs. -
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Abbassa Tilapia breeding program
(2022)Type: PresentationWorldFish Genetics Workshop 2022 - ppt presentation about the Tilapia breeding program in Abbassa. -
About more than just the size of the boat: Big Numbers Project
(2008)Type: BriefThe Big Numbers Project is a joint activity of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, World Bank and the WorldFish Center in collaboration with national partners. It is funded through PROFISH, ... -
Abstracts [of] the Third International Symposium on Tilapia in Aquaculture, 11-16 November 1991
(1991)Type: ReportISTA III is co-organized by ICLARM (International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management), Manila, Philippines and CRO (Centre de Recherches Oceanographiques), Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. This volume contains the ... -
Abundance and size frequency distributions of invertebrates, and the nature of habitats, prior to declaration of the marine conservation area
(1996)Type: ReportWith the assistance of The Nature Conservancy, local fishermen implemented a total closure on fishing of commercially important invertebrates for three years around much of the coastline of two islands within an MCA of 83 ... -
Acadjas: the brush park fisheries of Benin, West Africa
(1981)Type: Journal ArticleFishing installations consisting of branches of trees, bushes or other soft vegetation stuck into the muddy bottoms of lagoons, lakes or rivers, are common throughout the world. Collectively, these may be termed "brush ... -
Accelerating climate resilience of aquatic food systems
(2021)Type: BriefClimate change impacts on aquatic food systems place vulnerable communities with limited adaptive capacities at most risk. Policy and investment interventions require a positive bias in favor of the most vulnerable. Building ... -
Accelerating pond aquaculture development and resilience beyond COVID: Ensuring food and jobs in Ghana
(2022)Type: Journal ArticleOver the past decade, the aquaculture sector in Ghana has experienced tremendous growth—driven mainly by large-scale cage aquaculture. Pond aquaculture, traditionally extensive and with limited external inputs, has been ... -
Access to common property resource and poverty reduction: inland open-water fisheries in Bangladesh
(2007)Type: Conference PaperIn Bangladesh, experiences from good practices for a Common Property Resources (CPR) identified that it is necessary to choose CPR members from the resource users with clearly defined rights to use the resource with defined ... -
Access to marine ecosystem services: Examining entanglement and legitimacy in customary institutions
(2020)Type: Journal ArticleEcosystem services have become a dominant paradigm for understanding how people derive well-being from ecosystems. However, the framework has been critiqued for over-emphasizing the availability of services as a proxy for ...
