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Investing in Africa: the WorldFish Center's African strategy in summary
Type: Journal Article
Across much of Africa, freshwater and coastal fisheries provide an important source of food and livelihood for many millions of people. In addition, the aquaculture potential of the continent has only recently begun to be ...
Status of research on inland fisheries in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka
Type: Journal Article
This report presents information gathered during a short trip (November 14 to December 2, 1978) which the author made to observe the recent developments in inland fisheries research in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
Bangladesh fisheries: a challenge to resource managers
Type: Journal Article
Bangladesh's freshwater fishery is described, detailing areas of inland fisheries, production and a fisheries management plan which involves a trial 2 year programme.
Who's working on reservoir fisheries in developing countries?
Type: Journal Article
A brief account is given of a review conducted on the literature on capture fisheries and their development in developing country reservoirs. Areas of research covered are detailed and some addresses given of research ...
Can water productivity metrics guide allocation of freshwater to inland fisheries?
Type: Journal Article
Water productivity (WP) metrics have proven useful in comparing production efficiency of various crops. Recently, it has also been proposed to facilitate more equitable allocation of scarce freshwater resources between ...
Inland capture fisheries
Type: Journal Article
The reported annual yield from inland capture fisheries in 2008 was over 10 million tonnes, although real catches are probably considerably higher than this. Inland fisheries are extremely complex, and in many cases poorly ...
Management of freshwater capture fisheries in Cambodia: issues and approaches
Type: Journal Article
Located in the Lower Mekong Basin, the inland waters of Cambodia support an extensive fishery and provide food security to the country's largely subsistence oriented population. Current fishery production from inland waters ...
A summary of "An overview on reservoir fisheries in tropical Asia" by S.-Y. Yap and J.I. Furtado
Type: Journal Article
This overview on tropical Asian reservoir fisheries was prompted by issues raised in "Tropical reservoir fisheries: a preliminary analysis." Considerably different but building upon the above preliminary study, the present ...
A preliminary study on the feasibility of using fenced brushparks for fish production in Lake Chilwa, Malawi
Type: Journal Article
A study to investigate the feasibility of using fenced brushparks for fish ranching in Lake Chilwa was conducted for five months at the Kachulu Harbor. In a water depth of 1.4 m enclosures constructed from bamboo sticks ...
Fifty years of reservoir fisheries in Mettur Dam, India: some lessons
Type: Journal Article
The paper outlines briefly the history of the fishery in a dam reservoir in India. The reservoir was very productive in its early years, with support from a seed farm, ice plant, cold storage and regulated entry of fishery. ...