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The Peruvian anchoveta, Charles Darwin and us
Type: Journal Article
The last decade has seen and rightly so a boom of Darwiniana, culminating in 1991, in a fascinating new biography by A. Desmond and J. Moore.' Indeed, "spicing up" one's writing with references to Charles Darwin seems one ...
Small-scale fisheries of San Miguel Bay, Philippines: options for management and research
Type: Report
This report synthesizes the respective research findings of the biology, economics and sociology modules of a multidisciplinary study of the small-scale fisheries of San Miguel Bay, Philippines and examines various options ...
The South China Sea: analyzing fisheries catch data in an ecosystem context
Type: Journal Article
The South China Sea is an important fishing area with an annual harvest of some 5 million tonnes, or 10% of the catches jointly taken by the developing nations of the world. Details are given of a model of the area describing ...
Length-based methods in fisheries research
Type: Conference Proceedings
This proceedings include the twenty-two papers which were originally presented in in a conference on The Theory and Application of Length-Based Stock Assessment Methods which took place on 11-16 February 1985 at the Istituto ...
Status and management of tropical coastal fisheries in Asia
Type: Conference Proceedings
Proceedings of the Workshop on Sustainable Exploitation of Tropical Coastal Fish Stocks in Asia funded by the Asian Development Bank, 2-5 July 1996, Manila, Philippines. The regional overview and country reports document ...
Length-converted catch curves: a powerful tool for fisheries research in the Tropics (part 1)
Type: Journal Article
A number of methods are available with the help of which total mortality (Z) can be estimated from length-frequency data. Thus it is possible to obtain reasonable estimates of Z from the mean length in a representative ...
Fisheries and aquaculture research capabilities and needs in Africa: studies of Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Mauritania, Morocco, and Senegal
Type: Journal Article
This Technical Report contains the results of 2 missions. One mission deals with the state of fisheries andaquaculture research as well as research needs in 4 countries in Southeastern Africa: Kenya, Malawi,Mozambique an ...
Fish production, catches and the carrying capacity of the world oceans
Type: Journal Article
A brief review of the status of the world fisheries is presented with emphasis on the differences between catches (= landings + bycatch), biological production of fish, and predation (= production - catches). The ECOPATH ...
Resharpening Ockham's razor
Type: Journal Article
Ockham's dictum is discussed in this essay.
Catch and effort in the small-scale fisheries
Type: Book Chapter
The gears used by the small scale fishermen of San Miguel Bay, Philippines, are presented and classified. Numbers around the Bay and catch per effort of the various gears are estimated along with their annual fishing effort. ...