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Training in tropical fisheries science
(1982)Type: Journal ArticleThe educational requirements for fish¬eries scientists are well established: a good grounding in the basic sciences—mathe¬matics, physics, chemistry and biology, and an awareness of the environmental sciences, development ... -
Small-scale fisheries of San Miguel Bay, Philippines: economics of production and marketing
(1982)Type: ReportThis research project was designed to determine the distribution of total catch and revenues among major gear types, so that informed decisions regarding possible gear regulations could be made by the Bureau of Fisheries and ... -
A method to estimate the stock recruitment relationship of shrimps
(1982)Type: Journal ArticleA procedure is proposed by which recruit numbers and parental biomass of shrimps stocks can be derived, given a series of catch per effort data and estimates of a few ancillary variables. In the Gulf of Thailand, shrimp ... -
Implications for equity and management
(1982)Type: Book ChapterThe economic efficiency and distribution of benefits from the fisheries of San Miguel Bay, Philippines are examined in this paper. The total annual value of catch from the Bay in 1980-1981 was estimated to be US6 million. ... -
Small-scale fisheries of San Miguel Bay, Philippines: biology and stock assessment
(1982)Type: ReportThe report analyzes the biological aspects of the fisheries of San Miguel Bay representing the results of data collection and analysis over approximately a 2-year period, 1979-81. -
The fishes and their ecology
(1982)Type: ReportAn annotated list of 188 species of fishes recorded from San Miguel Bay, Philippines is presented. Of these, 48% are euryhaline marine species. The most abundant fishes belong to marine species whose representatives are ... -
Marine fisheries statistics in Southeast Asia: a critical appraisal
(1982)Type: Journal ArticleThe major fishing countries of Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand exploit what is probably the richest and most extensive area of tropical fisheries in the world. The total annual landings ... -
Finding fisheries facts in Southeast Asia
(1982)Type: Journal ArticleTracking down fisheries references and retrieving them are often no simple matter in Southeast Asia. Here we present some of the pitfalls and solutions. The story is fictional, of course, but the events have all been ... -
Trawl fisheries in the Gulf of Thailand
(1982)Type: ReportThe maximum sustainable yield of demersal fishery resources in the Gulf of Thailand to a depth of 50 m is estimated to be 750,000 tonnes. On this basis the Gulf has been overfished since 1973. There were over 4,000 trawlers ... -
The realities of fishery management in the Southeast Asia region
(1982)Type: Book ChapterFishery management, particularly in Southeast Asia, is concerned primarily with people problems rather than resource problems. It cannot be successful unless viewed in the context of rural development. Conventional constraints ... -
Tilapia, Sarotherodon or Oreochromis?
(1982)Type: Journal ArticleThe debate on the scientific nomenclature for tilapias is likely to intensify with the publication this year by the British Museum of Natural History of Dr. Ethelwynn Trewavas' long-awaited mono¬graph "A review of the ... -
Dilemma of the small-scale fishermen
(1982)Type: Journal ArticleResource managers in many countries have not yet fully grasped the consequences of the fisheries dilemma now emerging in Southeast Asia. Official views often hold that abundant underutilized stocks still exist while in ... -
Brunei fisheries and research
(1982)Type: Journal ArticleThe existing fisheries in Brunei are almost entirely artisanal, using traditional gear. Stock assessment is discussed and the potential for aquaculture considered. Some of the problems in the fisheries are related to the ... -
The ICLARM Network of Tropical Fisheries Scientists
(1982)Type: Journal ArticleICLARM is initiating the creation of an international Network of Tropical Fisheries Scientists to enhance communication between fisheries scientists working on aspects of management-oriented research. Basically, this would ... -
Microeconomics of existing aquaculture production systems: basic concepts and definitions
(1982)Type: Book ChapterThe paper focuses on the role of the relative prices in farmers' production behaviour and presents a model for explaining output variations among farmers. In the context of this production mode, the concepts of output ... -
Kenya pioneers intensive tank culture of tilapia
(1982)Type: Journal ArticleAlthough it appears that the first recorded, scientifically oriented culture of tilapia was conducted in Kenya in 1924,of the current 30,000 ponds with a potential annual production of more than 7,000 tons, only 10% are ... -
Rice terraces and fish: integrated farming in the Philippines
(1982)Type: Journal ArticleA brief account of rice fish culture in the Ifugao Province, northern Luzon, Philippines was presented. -
Studying single-species dynamics in a tropical multispecies context
(1982)Type: Book ChapterSome methods available for the study of the population dynamics of tropical fish are reviewed; emphasis is given to questions of growth, mortality and recruitment, and to relatively new approaches, such as aging by means ... -
Catch and effort in the small-scale fisheries
(1982)Type: Book ChapterThe gears used by the small scale fishermen of San Miguel Bay, Philippines, are presented and classified. Numbers around the Bay and catch per effort of the various gears are estimated along with their annual fishing effort. ... -
Theory and management of tropical fisheries
(1982)Type: Conference ProceedingsThe objectives of the workshop were designed to place emphasis on applications. It was perceived that the fisheries are at present so intense and the available information so limited, that a special effort should be made ...
