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Community-based and co-management institutions for sustainable coastal fisheries management in Southeast Asia
Type: Journal Article
Fisheries 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 ...
Anecdotes and the shifting baseline syndrome of fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Authors's view on using anecdotes in fishery science is presented.
Anticipated impacts of recent political changes on fisheries management in South Africa
Type: Journal Article
South Africa's marine resources are essentially fully exploited and in some cases over exploited. The Government of National Unity has embarked on the ambitious Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) to: meet the ...
The fisheries of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States
Type: Journal Article
A brief review of the main features of the Caribbean fisheries is presented covering the States of Antigua/Barbuda, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts/Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Status of the world's capture fisheries
Type: Journal Article
S.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 ...
Patterns of publication by the staff of an international fisheries research center
Type: Journal Article
The 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 ...
Fish production, catches and the carrying capacity of the world oceans
Type: Journal Article
A brief review of the status of the world fisheries is presented with emphasis on the differences between catches (= landings + bycatch), biological production of fish, and predation (= production - catches). The ECOPATH ...
The Programme for Integrated Development of Artisanal Fisheries in West Africa
Type: Journal Article
The Programme for Integrated Development of Artisanal Fisheries in West Africa (IDAF) was initiated in 1983 to help some 20 coastal states from Mauritiana to Angola which wished to develop and manage their artisanal fisheries ...
Twenty per cent of the world fisheries catch is discarded
Type: Journal Article
In a landmark study of the annual quantity of incidental organisms discarded during fishing operations, a new estimate of 27 million tonnes worldwide has been determined.
Lanternfish heaven: the future of world fisheries?
Type: Journal Article
The differences between fishes in their size, behavior and food make them more or less vulnerable to fishing pressure. Large predators, long-lived fish, most trawl species and pelagic schooling fishes will possibly become ...