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Spreading the news
Type: Book Chapter
The best word to describe Nazmy Abdel Rahman Shafi is 'dynamic'. At 73 he runs, with his partner Mohammed Gouda, a successful fish farm in the Fayoum province of Egypt. Not only were these men the first to begin farming ...
Fisheries of the Farasan Islands (Red Sea)
Type: Journal Article
The fisheries of the Farasan Islands (Saudi Arabia, Red Sea) are described. The fishery resources are exploited by artisanal, investor and industrial sectors. The artisanal fishery consists mostly of line fishing around ...
An organic matter and nitrogen dynamics model for the ecological analysis of integrated aquaculture/agriculture systems: II model evaluation and application
Type: Journal Article
The performance of a model developed to simulate organic matter and nitrogen dynamics in integrated aquaculture/agriculture systems was evaluated using sensitivity analysis and model verification procedures with data from ...
Comparison of African tilapia partial harvesting systems
Type: Journal Article
Three typical African partial harvesting systems and an unfished control were compared for gross yield. Fish grew undisturbed on an input regime based on that used by Malawian smallholding farmers for 122 days. Then, for ...
Women do fish: a case study on gender and the fishing industry in Sierra Leone
Type: Conference Paper
Sierra Leone is one of the few countries with comprehensive legislation on fisheries and a special Fisheries Division established under the Ministry of Trade and Industry. The focus of the legislation and the government ...
Development of sustainable aquaculture project: progress report (1 October 2001 - 31 December 2001)
Type: Report
The Development of Sustainable Aquaculture Project (DSAP) was authorized by USAID under the Cooperative Agreement # 388-A-00-00-00068-00 on 28 June 2000. This report covers activities for the three months of the project, ...
An annotated checklist of elasmobranchs of the South China Sea, with some global statistics on elasmobranch biodiversity, and an offer to taxonomists
Type: Book Chapter
An annotated checklist of the sharks and rays of the South China Sea is described, together with some global statistics on the status and use of elasmobranchs. For each of the 156 recorded species, the checklist contains ...
Evaluation of the integrated municipal council as an institution for co-management in the coastal zone
Type: Report
This study on the Integrated Municipal Council, Philippines (IMC) has the following objectives; (1) to evaluate the IMC as an institution for co-management in the coastal area of the Philippines, (2) to determine the impact ...
Comparative growth of Egyptian tilapias in response to declining water temperature
Type: Journal Article
The current study was conducted to evaluate performance of Egyptian tilapia species and populations under a decreasing temperature regime to identify the components of growth.
On her own feet
Type: Book Chapter
Mrs Jessie Kaunde is proud to be one of the small, but growing, number of women who farm fish on their own. She recognised fish farming as an opportunity to provide herself with a better future back in 1999, when she heard ...