World Bank lending for fishery projects between 1976-81 is discussed, considering past problems with Band-supported projects, recent trends and future strategy and also sector management.

The National Sea Grant College Program is a matching fund program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the U.S. Department of Commerce. It provides a partnership of government, universities and ...

The recent growth of Tilapia culture in Taiwan is discussed, describing the species involved. The major cultured tilapias are now all-male hybrids and red tilapias.

The potential productivity of coral reefs is discussed, considering problems involved in the different types of the reefsituations. The overall result is that coral reef fish on a world-wide basis are under-exploited.

A history account of the establishment of the NOAA is given in this article.

Artisanal fisheries are extremely diverse when considered on a worldwide basis, although less so within particular countries. As a general case, artisanal fisheries are those in which fishermen operate from vessels of ...

This manual is a selection, from the entire field of fish population dynamics, of methods that are applicable totropical fish and fisheries and can be implemented with the help of programmable calculators. The methods ...

Determines and measures the constraints to the adoption of more intensive fertilizer application rates among Philippine milkfish farmers. Hypothesized 56 explanatory variables, categorized into socioeconomic, institutional, ...

The authors argue that tropical aquaculture could make a significant contribution to the world fish supply, but is hindered by the absence of an adequate research base. They outline the history of aquacultural research, ...

To encourage the development of deep-sea fishing in Vanuatu, the Office de la Recherche Scien-tifique et Technique d'Outre Mer (ORSTOM) is studying growth in some of the major species: Erelis carbunculus, E. coruscans, ...