This contribution provides an approach for constructing models of large marine ecosystems (LMEs). This contribution results from an attempt to follow up on some of the implications of the LME concept for ecological modeling, ...

A discussion is presented on the topic of fish stock assessment methodologies and fisheries management, considering various research programmes conducted which concern fishery-derived data such as Virtual Population Analysis ...

For the people of Africa. Asia and Latin America the fisheries of inland lakes, rivers and other freshwater ecosystems provide an important source of food and income, and for many these are the principal source of animal ...

The reported annual yield from inland capture fisheries in 2008 was over 10 million tonnes, although real catches are probably considerably higher than this. Inland fisheries are extremely complex, and in many cases poorly ...

WorldFish has renewed its partnership specifically to make aquaculture more productive, profitable and environmentally sustainable in China, tropical Asia and Africa. This brochure documents our previous work in China and ...

The current, highly centralized approach to fisheries management seems to be incapable of coping with escalating resource depletion and environmental degradation. Co-management has been identified as an alternative. This ...

A wide range of institutional arrangements were practiced in the Community Based Fisheries Management project in phase-1 (1994-1999) and phase-2 (2001-2007). The project documents stated that there were three main fisheries ...

Disease outbreaks are encountered in the rapidly developing aquaculture industry and affecting the economy but their controls seem to be difficult. Therefore, the use of immunostimulants may be an effective mean of increasing ...

A survey was made of the status of stocks of groupers and hinds (Family Serranidae) in the northeastern Caribbean, principally in January and February 2003, coinciding with the principal spawning season of most species. ...

The case presented in this article clearly indicates that reservoir and lake resource systems, reservoirs in the Asian context lakes plus reservoirs in the African context, have been given a lower priority than deserved.