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Management of the fishery resources in Sierra Leone: assessment and recommendations
(1994)Type: ReportThe main objectives of the project were to evaluate the present status of the fishenes in Sierra Leone and to make recommendations of possible management strategies in the light of the priontv proclaimed by the Government ... -
Emergy-based ascendency
(1994)Type: Journal ArticleAscendency is a system indicator used for describing flow characteristics of ecosystems. Experience shows, however, that ascendency is primarily a function of the flow characteristics at the lowest trophic levels. This is ... -
On the behavior of some proposed goal functions for ecosystem development
(1994)Type: Journal ArticleThis contribution addresses the issue of "goal functions", quantifying the state of development of ecosystems. Numerous goal functions have been proposed with the hope that once a proper goal function has been identified ... -
Estimating input demand and output supply elasticities in gillnet and seine fishing in Guimaras Strait and adjacent waters
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleThis contribution is a summary of the results of the study conducted by the University of the Philippines in the Visayas team from November 1990 to June 1991. The purpose of this research is to estimate demand and output ... -
Artificial reefs in the Philippines
(1995)Type: Conference ProceedingsThis workshop and the resulting proceedings came into being as a result of cumulative concerns by aid agencies, nongovernmental organizations and by government authorities and researchers on the mass installation of artificial ... -
Coastal Aquaculture Centre
(1995)Type: BookICLARM established the Coastal Aquaculture Centre (CAC) to redress this problem by developing ways to enhance the productivity of coral reefs, and by transferring the technologies to communities living on coralline coasts ... -
Community-based and co-management institutions for sustainable coastal fisheries management in Southeast Asia
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleFisheries experts now recognize that resource conflicts can be diminished and resources better managed when fishers and other resource stakeholders are more involved in management, and access rights are distributed more ... -
Age and growth of three species of Lake Victoria fish determined by means of otolith daily growth rings
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleThe sagittal otoliths of Lates niloticus, Haplochromis obesus, and Oreochromis niloticus from Lake Victoria were examined for daily growth rings using scanning electron microscopy. In the three species the increments were ... -
Weed control by adult and juvenile tilapia Tilapia rendalli in rainfed ponds
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleTwo studies were conducted in consecutive years over the time period 14 January to 1 July to determine whether labor-savings and fish growth enhancement could be achieved by stocking Tilapia rendalli directly into ponds ... -
Spawning and early larval rearing of Holothuria atra
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleThe Coastal Aquaculture Centre (CAC) of the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) in Solomon Islands has started to assess the potential of enhancing populations of sea cucumbers associated ... -
Aquaculture for African smallholders
(1995)Type: ReportThis volume report is the findings of the ICLARM-BMZ/GTZ Africa Aquaculture Project (1986-1994). This project studied the smallholder farming systems and developed integrated aquaculture technologies in collaboration with ... -
Economic incentives for water resource management in the Pak Phanang river basin of southern Thailand
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleThe study examines the existing water allocation methods and other policies that provide constraints or incentives for the most efficient use of water resources. Given the production condition of the local people, and the ... -
Anecdotes and the shifting baseline syndrome of fisheries
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleAuthors's view on using anecdotes in fishery science is presented. -
Surveying bacterial human pathogens in shrimp culture in Thailand
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleAny presence of bacterial human pathogen in shrimp products may be of public health concern. This note concludes that Salmonella do not appear to constitute a part of the microbial flora where shrimp culture is practiced ... -
Status of the world's capture fisheries
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleS.M. Garcia and C. Newton of the FAO Fisheries Department have produced a critical review of the situation and its causes and effects, which was presented to the Conference on Fish-eries Management: Global Aspects, in ... -
Answering the needs of users of the Centre de Recherches Oceanographiques de Dakar-Thiaroye Documentation Center
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleThe Centre de Recherches Oceanographiques de Dakar-Thiaroye (CRODT) Documentation Center was created in 1972 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. It currently holds 25,000 docu¬ments. Half are ... -
Patterns of publication by the staff of an international fisheries research center
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleThe scientific productivity, measured as number of publication credits per year, of 105 BS, MS and PhD degree holders at the authors' institution - a non profit international fisheries research organization based in Manila ... -
Impacts of harmful algae on seafarming in the Asia-Pacific areas
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleSeafarming to produce human food has recently intensified, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. Disastrous impacts of harmful phytoplankton blooms, however, have been experenced during the past 20 years. In extreme ... -
Sierra Leone Industrial Fishery Database System (IFDaS) : user manual
(1995)Type: ManualThis document introduces the user of the Sierra Leone Industrial Fishery Database System (IFDaS) to the features of the database in respect to entering, retrieving, and analyzing of data. It does not require any pre-knowledge ... -
Length-weight relationships of fishes from tributaries of the Volta River, Ghana Part 1: Analysis of pooled data sets
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleThe parameters a and b of length-weight relationships of the form W = a L super(b) were estimated for 45 fish species sampled in the Oti, Pru and Black Volta rivers, Ghana. Also, the slope and intercepts of regressional ...
