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Better management practices manual for smallholders farming tilapia in pond-based systems in Zambia
(2019)Type: ManualBetter Management Practices (BMPs) for small-holder farming tilapia (GIFT) in pond-based systems in Zambia were developed based on learning from farmers’ field schools (FFSs) and demonstration ponds, including empirical ... -
Better management practices manual for smallholders farming tilapia in pond-based systems in Zambia Authors
(2019)Type: ManualTilapia is one of the most popular fish species for farming and is second in terms of volume after carps. WorldFish has been working for decades on fish genetic improvement and dissemination activities across Asia and ... -
Better Management Practices: Small Scale Aquaculture Survey Report
Type: Internal ReportThis report illustrates the findings and recommendations of a survey carried out to verify and observe that Small-scale Aquaculture (SSA) farmers from the project area have adopted better management practices (BMPs) in an ... -
Beverton and Holt equations: spreadsheet functions and uncertainty
(1999)Type: Journal ArticleThis contribution illustrates how modern spreadsheets aid the calculation and visualization of yield models and how the effects of uncertainties may be incorporated using Monte Carlo simulation. It is argued that analogous ... -
Beyond crops: Towards gender equality in forestry, fisheries, aquaculture, and livestock development
(2022)Type: PresentationThe fisheries, aquaculture, forestry, and livestock sectors are critical for sustaining rural livelihoods and achieving global food and nutrition security. Yet each of these sectors embeds important gender and other social ... -
Beyond gender-blind livelihoods: Considerations for coastal livelihood initiatives
(2020)Type: Working PaperSustainable and improved livelihoods are often entry points to enhance human well-being and the management of natural resources (Allison and Ellis 2001; Sulu et al. 2015). Yet research shows that many of these livelihood ... -
Beyond Malthusian overfishing: the importance of structural and non-demographic factors
(1994)Type: Journal ArticleDaniel Pauly’s concept of Malthusian overfishing states that fisheries over-exploitation in tropical developing countries is caused primarily by excess human population. While it is certainly true that growing numbers of ... -
Beyond net deficits: new priorities for an aquacultural geography
(2014)Type: Journal ArticleGeographers first identified aquaculture as an important field of study during the 1990s, pointing to a 'net deficit' in geographical knowledge about the activity. This paper examines how far geographers have come in ... -
Beyond Social-Ecological Traps: Fostering Transformations Towards Sustainability
(2018)Type: Journal ArticleThis special issue with themes "Beyond Social-Ecological Traps: Fostering Transformations Towards Sustainability" have 11 papers. -
Beyond social-ecological traps: fostering transformations towards sustainability
(2021)Type: Journal ArticleThis Special Feature is motivated by the rigorous, and growing, theoretical and empirical body of literature on social- ecological traps. Building on the foundational literature, which describes the context in many of the ... -
Beyond social-ecological traps: Pathways to a sustainable future
Type: BlogIn development and resilience research, the metaphor of a ‘trap’ is commonly employed to convey the rigidity that can be associated with complex systems. In practical meaning, and in their mechanical workings, traps are ... -
Bias in lobster tethering experiments conducted for selecting low-predation release sites
(2008)Type: Journal ArticleJuvenile spiny lobsters <i>Jasus edwardsii</i>, grown in tanks for 1 yr following capture as pueruli, may be released to coastal reefs in Tasmania, Australia, to offset possible stock depletion resulting from the harvest ... -
Bias in the Wetherall estimates of Z/K and L due to population disequilibria
(1991)Type: Journal ArticleThe method of Wetherall (1986, Fishbyte 4(1):12-14) for estimating Z/K and L sub( infinity ) from length-frequency data sampled from a population in equilibrium (constant recruitment and mortality) was examined through ... -
Bibliographic coverage of the growing fisheries literature in ASFA
(1988)Type: Journal ArticleDifficulties in indexing and abstracting fisheries literature globally are discussed. ASFA helps to be a global central database of fisheries literature. -
Bibliographic impact of ICLARM
(1990)Type: ReportA study was made of the availability and impact of the publications and other contributions to the literature of the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM), based in the Philippines. The ... -
Bibliography on Indo-Pacific red tides
(1989)Type: BookThis bibliography includes some 243 references to red tides in the central Indo-Pacific region. Author, geographic, subject and taxonomic indexes are also provided. -
Big benefis from selectively bred fish
(2019)Type: PosterInfographic on the benefits on the power of selective breeding to fish. -
Bigger net mesh size will mean bigger catches in the Ivory coast trawl fishery
(1986)Type: Journal ArticleYield-per-recruit analyses were performed on catch data of the Ivory Coast trawl fishery in order to identify the mesh size and levels of fishing effort most approprate. Results show that at present levels of fishing ... -
Bio-economic evaluation of African Catfish (Clarias gariepinus) interaction with Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in low input system and its effect on water quality
(2010)Type: Journal ArticleThis study aims to determine the best stocking rate of African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) as a predator to control unwanted tilapia recruits in a bilyculture system and to assess the effects of that on fish growth, water ... -
Biochemical and morphometric approaches to characterize farmed tilapias
(1991)Type: Journal ArticleBiochemical (electrophoresis and mitochondrial DNA) and morphological analysis are important tools for the characterization of strains. Reference is made to studies conducted in the framework of the Genetic Improvement of ...
