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Centrostephanus rodgersii
Type: Book Chapter
Centrostephanus rodgersii is ecologically important on southeastern Australian rocky reefs, where its grazing activity results in a mosaic of barrens and macroalgal habitats. The creation, persistence and demise of C. ...
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 ...
Trophic model of the coastal fisheries ecosystem of the west coast of peninsular Malaysia
Type: Book Chapter
A preliminary mass-balance trophic model was constructed for the coastal fisheries ecosystem of the West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia (0 - 120 m depth). The ecosystem was partitioned into 15 trophic groups, and biomasses ...
Assessment and management of coral reef fisheries: biological, environmental and socio-economic aspects
Type: Book Chapter
The authors opened discussion by briefly summarising the main points in their paper. Coral reefs occurred predominantly in developing countries and coral reef fisheries were predominantly artesanal. Fishery yields varied ...
An ECOPATH II model of the Lake Chad system
Type: Book Chapter
The trophic ecosystem modelling software, ECOPATH II, was used to analyze the Lake Chad system, Africa, during its "normal" phase, the period between 1969 and 1972. Reasonable estimates of population-related parameters for ...
Integrated smallholder agriculture aquaculture in Asia: optimizing trophic flows
Type: Book Chapter
A nutrient modelling approach was applied to show how the combination of crops, trees, livestock, and fish, that is, integrated agriculture-aquaculture (IAA), helps in optimizing trophic flows in Asian rice-based agroecosystems. ...
A checklist of fishes caught in San Miguel Bay
Type: Book Chapter
A checklist of fishes harvested by the capture fisheries in San Miguel Bay between July 1992 and June 1993 is presented. The list was assembled from fish identifications made during the course of the following activities: ...
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 ...
Gender and the Political Economy of Fish Agri-food Systems in the Global South
Type: Book Chapter
The significance of fish for human nutrition, health, and livelihoods is increasingly recognized by and for people around the world, especially in the Global South. However, fisheries and aquaculture do not equally benefit ...
Have fish catches been declining in the Mekong River Basin?
Type: Book Chapter
This book chapter sets out to test the hypothesis that fisheries production has declined in the Mekong Basin. Despite the lack of clear evidence of a decline in the overall production of the Mekong fish catches in the past, ...