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Vulnerability of Cambodian water snakes: initial assessment of the impact of hunting at Tonle Sap Lake
Type: Journal Article
This paper documents the emergent snake ‘fishery’ occurring on Tonle Sap Lake where an estimated 6.9 million snakes (mostly homalopsids) are removed annually, representing the world’s largest exploitation of a single snake ...
Aquaculture development 3. Genetic resource management
Type: Report
These Technical Guidelines have been developed to support sections of the FAO’s Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries on aspects of genetic resource management in aquaculture. Guidance is provided on broodstock management ...
Adaptive co-management for social-ecological complexity
Type: Journal Article
Building trust through collaboration, institutional development, and social learning enhances efforts to foster ecosystem management and resolve multi-scale society–environment dilemmas. One emerging approach aimed at ...
Testing resilience thinking in a poverty context: experience from the Niger River basin
Type: Journal Article
Resilience thinking is an important addition to the range of frameworks and approaches that can be used to understand and manage complex social–ecological systems like small-scale fisheries. However, it is yet to lead to ...
A comparison of GIFT and red tilapia for fillet yield and sensory attributes of flesh quality assessed by a panel of untrained consumers
Type: Conference Paper
This evaluation was conducted by a panel of untrained consumers, not in a laboratory environment, but instead, in a cafeteria where WorldFish staff normally have their lunch. The Quantitative Descriptive Analysis (QDA) ...
Spatial structure of demersal fish assemblages in South and Southeast Asia and implications for fisheries management
Type: Journal Article
We provide a review of the assemblage structure of demersal fish resources in four South and Southeast Asian countries. Multivariate techniques (classification and ordination analysis) were used to analyze scientific trawl ...
ReefBase 2.0: a contribution to environmental conservation on a global scale
Type: Journal Article
The 1997 International Year of the Reef sees the release of ReefBase 2.0: a global database on coral reefs and their resources. It provides the most comprehensive and accessible repository of information to date. Containing ...
Exploratory analysis of resource demand and the environmental footprint of future aquaculture development using Life Cycle Assessment
Type: Working Paper
Increases in fish demand in the coming decades are projected to be largely met by growth of aquaculture. However, increased aquaculture production is linked to higher demand for natural resources and energy as well as ...
Blue frontiers: managing the environmental costs of aquaculture [chinese version]
Type: Other
This fact sheet presents the main findings from a global review of aquaculture conducted by the WorldFish Center in collaboration with Conservation International. The report “Blue Frontiers: Managing the environmental costs ...
A new era for restocking, stock enhancement and sea ranching of coastal fisheries resources
Type: Journal Article
The growing number of countries investigating the potential for releasing cultured juveniles to augment coastal fisheries resulted in the First International Symposium on Stock Enhancement and Sea Ranching (ISSESR) in ...