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Innovations to strengthen aquatic resource governance on Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake
Type: Report
Cambodia's recent freshwater fishery sector reform, instigated at the top level of government, is one of the country's most significant contemporary policy developments addressing natural resources management and rural ...
Fisheries research using digital tablets in Myanmar
Type: Book Chapter
The present paper introduces a new method for data gathering using digital tablets in the field. The method is part of a fisheries study aimed at identifying migration patterns and breeding sites of key commercial fish ...
Fisheries of the rivers of Southeast Asia
Type: Book Chapter
Southeast Asian lowland rivers are among the longest and most productive rivers for wild-capture inland fisheries in the world. They have many elements in common: they mostly arise on the Tibetan Plateau and have steep and ...
Fish for the future: Fisheries development and food security for Kiribati in an era of global climate change
Type: Report
The Republic of Kiribati is a vast South Pacific island group with one of the largest exclusive economic zones (EEZs) in the world. Kiribati waters support a wealth of marine fisheries activities. These activities occur ...
Strengthening community roles in aquatic resource governance in Uganda
Type: Report
Lake Victoria fisheries face severe environmental stresses. Stocks are declining in a context of increasing population and growing demand for the lake's resources. Rising competition between users is putting conservation ...
Communication strategies for managing coastal fisheries conflicts in Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
Fisheries management involves balancing the competing demands of different users of fishery resources. Conflicts among fisheries stakeholders arise due to differences in power, interests, values, priorities, and manner of ...
Fish resources in Cambodia (2001-2011)
Type: Book Chapter
Cambodian inland fish resources are part of the Mekong system. With 781 known freshwater and brackish fish species, the Mekong Basin has the second highest fish biodiversity in the world after the Amazon Basin in South ...
Community-based resource management approaches adopted in the three tributaries of River Surma, North-East Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
Freshwater fishery resources are declining in Bangladesh due to over exploitation, anthropogenic causes and inadequate management. To improve sustainability of these resources, a community-based resource management initiative ...
The impact of multipurpose dams on the values of nature's contributions to people under a water-energy-food nexus framing
Type: Journal Article
The paper proposes a probabilistic approach to the assessment of the impacts of multipurpose dams. It is framed around the notion of Nature's Contributions to People (NCP) in the setting of the Water-Energy-Food nexus. The ...