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Bioeconomic analysis of management options for tropical fisheries using a bicriteria programming model
Type: Journal Article
A possible approach to the management of the multispecies multigear fishery in a developing country was explored. The small pelagics fishery in central Philippines was analyzed in three stages. A dynamic pool model represented ...
Small scale fisheries in the time of cholera
Type: Journal Article
An ancient, small and dangerous visitor has returned to the Southwest Coast of Latin America, after hundreds of years, it is the Vibrio cholerae bacterium which causes the deadly cholera disease, showing its devastating ...
Village fisheries management and community-owned marine protected areas in Samoa
Type: Journal Article
As in many tropical countries, subsistence fishers in Samoa live in discrete communities which have a high level of marine knowledge and some degree of control of adjacent waters. These factors provide an ideal basis for ...
Fish consumption pattern in major freshwater fisheries provinces of Cambodia
Type: Journal Article
Production and consumption of fish were estimated for a one year period during 1995-96 using a sample of 5 117 households. The sample was taken from a study area covering 83 sample communes in 51 fishing districts belonging ...
Simulating fisheries for the assessment of optimum harvesting strategies
Type: Journal Article
Some results of a line of research explored by the author in recent years, and concerning the small-scale fisheries of Mexico are discussed. Clarity of goals for fisheries management is stressed as a departure point before ...
Fisheries management of San Salvador Island, Philippines: a shared responsibility
Type: Journal Article
The authors discuss how the fisher community and the government shared responsibility over time for regenerating and conserving fishery resources in San Salvador Island, Philippines, and rose above the obstacles associated ...
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. ...
Determination of fisheries benefits from floodplain riverine systems in Bangladesh: a mathematical programming approach
Type: Journal Article
This paper presents a non-linear programming model developed to determine the total benefits obtainable from the various floodplain riverine fisheries of Bangladesh. With the help of the model, performance-response of each ...
An account of fisheries development in the Republic of Djibouti with notes on the growth and mortality of three species of groupers
Type: Journal Article
A brief description of fisheries development in Djibouti is given, with emphasis on the major constraints that have to date limited the increase of fishing effort. Estimates of L sub( infinity ) obtained through Wetherall ...
The relationship between catch and effort and its effect on predicted yields of sardine fisheries in Lake Kariba
Type: Journal Article
There is an unusual relationship between catch per unit effort and effort in the Lake Kariba sardine (Limnothrissa miodon) fishery. This is apparently a results of ecological changes in the lake following the decline of ...