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Length-converted catch curves: a powerful tool for fisheries research in the Tropics (III: conclusion)
Type: Journal Article
A method is described for the determination of the selection curve of fishing gear from the shape of the ascending arm of a length-converted catch curve and growth parameters.
Customary law and the evolution of coastal zone management
Type: Journal Article
Although fisheries production in the Indo-Pacific has markedly increased, employment opportunities have diminished, social inequalities have been exacerbated and peasant fishing households have been further impoverished. ...
Economic aspects of processing and marketing
Type: Book Chapter
This paper examines the pricing efficiency and related economic aspects of fish processing and marketing in two communities of San Miguel Bay, Philippines. Salting, dried fish processing and marketing and fresh fish marketing ...
Integrated fish farming in West Java: social and economic considerations
Type: Journal Article
Fish farming has traditionally been combined with other agricultural production in West Java. Activities associated with fish culture include raising ducks, chickens, horses, water buffaloes, rice, aquatic plants, and even ...
Costs and returns of stationary gears
Type: Book Chapter
Costs and returns of three major stationary gears of Cabusao, San Miguel Bay, Philippines, are analysed. The gears discussed include fish corrals, liftnets and filter nets. Systems for allocation of fishing rights are ...
The trochus resource in New Caledonia
Type: Journal Article
New Caledonia, which is surrounded by one of the largest lagoons in the world, is a good reservoir of the Pacific species of trochus (Trochus niloticus). The shell of this large marine gastropod yields one of the thickest, ...
Bibliographic coverage of the growing fisheries literature in ASFA
Type: Journal Article
Difficulties in indexing and abstracting fisheries literature globally are discussed. ASFA helps to be a global central database of fisheries literature.
Bibliography on Indo-Pacific red tides
Type: Book
This bibliography includes some 243 references to red tides in the central Indo-Pacific region. Author, geographic, subject and taxonomic indexes are also provided.
The research process and communication of results: lessons learned from a multidisciplinary analysis of a tropical small-scale fishery
Type: Report
Along with an increase of their relative share of the total world catch, most tropical countries have experienced in the last decades an expansion of their fisheries research activities. These activities, whether based ...
Tilapia marketing tests in Kuwait
Type: Conference Paper
In 1982, live tilapia (Oreochromis ) were introduced into the Kuwait markets for the first time as part of a project to determine their aquaculture potential in Kuwait. Further market tests were held in 1983, 1984 and 1985. ...