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Strategies and options for increasing and sustaining fisheries and aquaculture production to benefit poorer households in Asia, ADB-RETA 5945: project completion report (appendixes)
Type: Report
The last three decades have witnessed dramatic changes in the structure of supply and demand for fish, especially in Asia. This WorldFish research study sponsored by the Asian Development Bank focussed on nine developing ...
Fish fights over fish rights: non-traditional security issues in fisheries in Southeast Asia
Type: Conference Paper
This paper presents the results of ‘Fish Fights over Fish Rights” project which evaluated conflicts related to overcapacity in the fisheries and those that may pose threats to food, livelihood and environmental security ...
Pacific: improving livelihoods for coastal communities in the Pacific
Type: Brochure
The island nations of the Pacific depend heavily on coral reef and coastal fisheries resources – globally, the highest per capita fish consumption is in the Pacific islands. Coral reefs support a rich variety of animals ...
HIV/AIDS in the fisheries sector in Africa
Type: Brief
This policy brief provides information on the scale of HIV/AIDS in the fisheries sector in Africa, the reasons why prevalence is so high and how this affects fishing communities. Access to health services and antiretroviral ...
Strategies and options for increasing and sustaining fisheries and aquaculture production to benefit poorer households in Asia, ADB-RETA 5945: project completion report (main report)
Type: Report
This document is a project completion report of a three-year project undertook by the WorldFish Center that covering nine Developing Member Countries (DMCs) namely Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri ...
Traditional management systems, poverty and change in the arid zone fisheries of northern Nigeria
Type: Journal Article
This paper, basd on fieldwork results, explores traditional mangement systems (TMS) in the arid zone fisheries of north-eastern Nigeria with particular reference to their impact on rural poverty. The first section provides ...
Testing Guidelines for Designing Data Collection Systems for Co-Managed Fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Since 2002 the WorldFish Centre has been working in collaboration with the Marine Resources Assessment Group (MRAG), Aquae Sulis Ltd (ASL),, the FAO, and the Mekong River Commission (MRC) to develop guidelines for designing ...
BayFish - Tonle Sap: a Bayesian model of the fish production in the Tonle Sap Great Lake, Cambodia.
Type: Conference Paper
Probabilistic Bayesian networks have been used as decision making tools mainly in medicine and economics, but recently they have also been utilized in natural resource management. In this study a Bayesian model is built ...
Increased Income from Seasonally Flooded Rice Fields through Community Based Fish Culture in Bangladesh and Vietnam
Type: Journal Article
In extensive river floodplains and deltaic lowlands, floods lasting several months render the land unavailable for crop (often rice) production during the rainy season. Aside from crop production during the flood-free dry ...
The Chambo restoration strategic plan
Type: Conference Proceedings
The Chambo (Oreochromis karongae, O. squamipinnis and O. lidole) fisheries are essential to the food security of the majority of Malawians and a lifeline for rural and urban economies. The chambo fisheries, however, have ...