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    • Fisheries forefront: What's happening in the Indo-Pacific 

      Anon. (1978)
      Type: Journal Article
      This articles highlights some of the fishery development in the Asia Pacific region, namely Australia, Japan, Thailand, India, Philippines and the South Pacific regions.

    • Fisheries impact on the South China Sea large marine ecosystem: a preliminary analysis using spatially-explicit methodology 

      Christensen, V.; Garces, L.R; Silvestre, G.; Pauly, D. (2003)
      Type: Conference Proceedings
      A multiple regression model is derived, based on biomass estimates in 16 massbalance food web (Ecopath) models, which explains 68 % of the variation in the data at hand, and shows that the abundance of fish with trophic ...

    • Fisheries impacts of the CBFM-2 project: final assessment of the impact of the CBFM project on community managed fisheries in Bangladesh 

      Halls, A.S.; Mustafa, M.G. (2006)
      Type: Report
      Following the recommendations of earlier investigations reported by Halls and Mustafa (2006), this study reports a final assessment to address the question: “Does CBFM bring sustainable benefits to fisher communities? Or ...

    • Fisheries in Southeast Asia: challenges and opportunities 

      Garces, L.R.; Pido, M.D.; Pomeroy, R.S. (2008)
      Type: Conference Paper
      This chapter highlights the important role of fisheries in providing livelihoods, trade and food security in the Southeast Asian region. It addresses the problem of decreasing fisheries and marine biodiversity and discusses ...

    • Fisheries in the Ayeyarwady Basin 

      Baran, E.; Win Ko Ko; Zi Za Wah; Khin Myat Nwe; Ghataure, G.; Khin Maung Soe (2018)
      Type: Report
      The Ayeyarwady State of the Basin Assessment (SOBA) is one of the major knowledge outputs of the Ayeyarwady Integrated River Basin Management (AIRBM) Project prepared by Hydro-Informatics Centre (HIC). SOBA aims to inform ...

    • Fisheries in transition: Food and nutrition security implications for the global South 

      Belton, B.; Thilsted, S.H. (2014)
      Type: Journal Article
      Fisheries and fish supply are undergoing a fundamental structural transition, as indicated by a ten country analysis. Aquaculture now provides around half the fish for direct human consumption and is set to grow further, ...

    • Fisheries in Zambia: an undervalued contributor to poverty reduction 

      Musumali, M.M.; Heck, S.; Husken, S.M.C.; Wishart, M. (2009)
      Type: Brief
      This brief examines the fisheries sector in Zambia. Fisheries sector has made a small contribution (1.24%) to the country's national GDP. However, It is estimated that more than 20 percent of animal protein intake for ...

    • Fisheries literature services: an overview 

      Maclean, J.L. (1982)
      Type: Journal Article
      Information availability on fisheries and aquaculture has lagged behind that of other disciplines, reflecting the minor role of fisheries in national economies, par¬ticularly of the developed countries from which information ...

    • Fisheries management and governance challenges in a climate change 

      Dulvy, N.K.; Reynolds, J.D.; Pilling, G.M.; Pinnegar, J.K.; Phillips, J.S.; Allison, E.H.; Badjeck, M.C. (2011)
      Type: Book Chapter
      This chapter outlines the causes and consequences of climate change and summarise future projections for ocean temperature rise, coral bleaching events and ocean acidification, and the associated uncertainties. This review ...

    • Fisheries management based on gear selectivity of a tropical reservoir, Lake Nasser, Egypt 

      El-Far, A.M.; Walid, E.; El-Haweet, A.E.; Nasr-Allah, A.M.; Karisa, H.C.; Ahmed Mohamed Nasr-Allah: 0000-0001-6299-8556; Harrison Charo Karisa: 0000-0001-5323-794X (2020)
      Type: Journal Article
      Lake Nasser, a large man-made tropical reservoir, located in the southern part of Egypt. The lakes’ fisheries have undergone steady decrease during the last 10 years obscuring its potential for sustainability. Fisheries ...

    • Fisheries management in Malawi: a patchwork of traditional, modern, and post-modern regimes unfolds 

      Russell, A.J.M.; Dobson, T.; Wilson, J.G.M. (2008)
      Type: Book Chapter
      This cases study provides an overview of how the roles of different stakeholders and institutions in fisheries management have evolved during the past century in Malawi.

    • Fisheries management of San Salvador Island, Philippines: a shared responsibility 

      Katon, B.M.; Pomeroy, R.S.; Garces, L.R.; Salamanca, A.M. (1999)
      Type: Journal Article
      The authors discuss how the fisher community and the government shared responsibility over time for regenerating and conserving fishery resources in San Salvador Island, Philippines, and rose above the obstacles associated ...

    • Fisheries management: what chance on coral reefs? 

      Russ, G.R. (1996)
      Type: Journal Article
      Failures of fishery management to control fishing effort globally and how this affects the coral reef fisheries are discussed. The use of marine reserves in coral reef fisheries management is also emphasized.

    • Fisheries monitoring: management models, compliance and technical solutions 

      Williams, M.J.; Corral, V.P. (1999)
      Type: Book Chapter
      Monitoring must be considered within the broader context of fisheries management, which in turn is a part of a mosaic of multiple ocean and natural resource uses, including environmental conservation. Monitoring has a role ...

    • Fisheries of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands 

      Mustafa, A.M. (1983)
      Type: Journal Article
      A brief description of the fisheries of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands is presented. This stretch of 585 islands, islets and rocks in the northeast Indian Ocean has sovereign rights to a sea area of nearly 600,000 sq/km. ...

    • Fisheries of the Farasan Islands (Red Sea) 

      Gladstone, W. (2002)
      Type: Journal Article
      The fisheries of the Farasan Islands (Saudi Arabia, Red Sea) are described. The fishery resources are exploited by artisanal, investor and industrial sectors. The artisanal fishery consists mostly of line fishing around ...

    • Fisheries of the rivers of Southeast Asia 

      Welcomme, R.L.; Baird, I.G.; Dudgeon, D.; Halls, A.; Lamberts, D.; Mustafa, M.G. (2015)
      Type: Book Chapter
      Southeast Asian lowland rivers are among the longest and most productive rivers for wild-capture inland fisheries in the world. They have many elements in common: they mostly arise on the Tibetan Plateau and have steep and ...

    • The fisheries of Timor-Leste: A 4-year time series analysis covering the COVID-19 pandemic 

      Veillat, S.; Tilley, A.; Dos Reis Lopes, J.; Cagua, F.; Longobardi, L.; Kolding, J.; Alexander Tilley: 0000-0002-6363-0945 (2022)
      Type: Report
      The time series of data used encompasses the COVID-19 pandemic, and our findings suggest that SSF in Timor-Leste were fairly resilient to the impact. Although they experienced a decline in the market value of the catch, ...

    • Fisheries policies for a new era 

      Hall, S.J.; Hilborn, R.; Andrew, N.; Allison, E.H. (2013)
      Type: Brief
      There is a growing recognition that the fisheries policies of the past have been driven primarily by environmental and economic research agendas. This may have been due to the influence of the more powerful actors in the ...

    • Fisheries policies, support services and the institutional environment for trade 

      The WorldFish Center (2008)
      Type: Brief
      This lessons-learned brief is based on the results of a three-year project (2001 – 2004) carried out in Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. Funded through the ...