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Fisheries in Southeast Asia: challenges and opportunities
Type: Conference Paper
This chapter highlights the important role of fisheries in providing livelihoods, trade and food security in the Southeast Asian region. It addresses the problem of decreasing fisheries and marine biodiversity and discusses ...
From women in fisheries to gender and fisheries
Type: Conference Paper
This paper traces the sequence of events leading to the involvement of the Asian Fisheries Society and ICLARM The World Fish Center, in the Women in Fisheries program and to the move towards Gender and Fisheries initiatives. ...
Cluster based management approaches for wetlands: CNRS's experience in the CBFM-2 project
Type: Conference Paper
This paper describes cluster-based management systems, formation processes, legal status, scope of works, and community responses to the approaches in five sites managed by CNRS under the Community based Fisheries Management ...
Utilization of wetland ecosystem through fish-crop diversification for enhanced productivity and economic stability for fish-farm community of Indian sub-continent
Type: Conference Paper
This paper deals with a number of case studies that were undertaken during the last 8- 10 years in utilizing divergent ‘Tal’ wetland ecosystems (deep, semi-deep, temporary in a range of agro-ecological zones like NAZ, OAZ ...
Institutions in the Mekong Delta of Cambodia: findings from a situation analysis
Type: Conference Paper
This paper focuses on property rights and collective action in the Mekong region of Cambodia. Institutional arrangements in water management for community-based aquaculture in two villages in the Mekong area of Cambodia ...
Perspectives on women in fisheries in north America
Type: Conference Paper
Women in the fisheries in the United States have varied roles. They range from the most traditional - that of a fisherman's wife and support-partner in his business - to that of scientists and researchers in fisheries-related ...
Responding to globalization trends in fisheries: assets of professional Taiwanese women
Type: Conference Paper
Globalization is an inevitable trend in Taiwan. The investment in human resources has increased over the last three decades, yielding a large pool of professionals, including women. Women became competitive professionals ...
South and south-east Asian coastal fisheries: their status and directions for improved management: conference synopsis and recommendations
Type: Conference Paper
As a step to address the problems of coastal fisheries in Asia, the WorldFish Center joined forces with fisheries agencies from eight developing Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, Sri ...
Status and development trends of aquaculture in the near east
Type: Conference Paper
Aquaculture has a short history in the Near East Region. The overall aquaculture production in 1997 was below 200 000 mt, a figure that represents less than 0.5 percent of global aquaculture production. Eight of the 17 ...
Lessons from the breeding program on common carp in Hungary
Type: Conference Paper
Common carp is one of the most important cultured freshwater fish species in the world. Its production in freshwater areas is the second largest in Europe after rainbow trout. Common carp production in Europe was 146,845 ...