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Keeping food on the table: Human responses and changing coastal fisheries in Solomon Islands
(2015)Type: Journal ArticleGlobally the majority of commercial fisheries have experienced dramatic declines in stock and catch. Likewise, projections for many subsistence fisheries in the tropics indicate a dramatic decline is looming in the coming ... -
Key issues in coastal fisheries South and Southeast Asia, outcomes of a regional initiative
(2006)Type: Journal ArticleAsia is an important region in terms of fish trade supplying nearly 60% of global fish production. The region’s coastal fisheries play a critical role in ensuring food security and providing livelihoods, particularly for ... -
Kinetic energy and selection in trammel nets
(1990)Type: Journal ArticleEquations are described that may be used for the calculation of the kinetic energy that a fish carries out during their capture in trammel nets in order to determine the selectivity of the gear. (From an unpublished doctoral ... -
Kuwait's finfish catch three times more shrimp than its trawlers
(1986)Type: Journal ArticleAssessments made of shrimp catches in Kuwait and available stocks indicate that finfish eat a large majority of theshrimp available. Management measures to be taken in order to reduce this predation problem are considered. -
Labor intensive vs. capital intensive: "conflict within the fishing industry"
(1985)Type: Journal ArticleConflicts in the fishing industry of Canada regarding which type of fishing fleet to use in rural communities are discussed: labor-intensive or capital-intensive. -
Lake Nasser fisheries: Literature review and situation analysis
(2015)Type: ReportThis study sought to improve the baseline knowledge of the fisheries of Lake Nasser and to make recommendations for the improved management of the fisheries, including stock assessment. This review draws heavily from the ... -
Lake Nasser fisheries: Recommendations for management, including monitoring and stock assessment
(2015)Type: ReportThis study sought to improve the baseline knowledge of the fisheries of Lake Nasser and to make recommendations for the improved management of the fisheries, including stock assessment. The study included the review of key ... -
Lanternfish heaven: the future of world fisheries?
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleThe differences between fishes in their size, behavior and food make them more or less vulnerable to fishing pressure. Large predators, long-lived fish, most trawl species and pelagic schooling fishes will possibly become ... -
Law of the Sea: problems of conflict and management of fisheries in Southeast Asia
(1980)Type: Conference ProceedingsThis workshop deals with some of the problems in connection with the Extended Economic Zone in the Southeast Asia area. Two of the major problems, resource allocation and implementation of fishery management plans, are ... -
Laying the foundation for fisheries research in Myanmar
Type: BlogThis article describes the support rolled out by WorldFish and partners in Myanmar to support local research capacity around fisheries and aquaculture. -
Learning and adaptation: the role of fisheries comanagement in building resilient social-ecological systems
(2010)Type: Book ChapterThis chapter focuses on how robust self-organizations can be formed within fisheries co-management systems. Over the last 30 years, co-management has been increasingly advocated as a blueprint solution for small-scale ... -
Legal issues pertaining to community based fisheries management
(2007)Type: Conference PaperThe Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA) provided legal support to the CBFM-2 project and in particular to the 130 Community Based Organisations established under the project. The project was implemented ... -
Length-based methods in fisheries research
(1987)Type: Conference ProceedingsThis 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 ... -
Length-converted catch curves: a powerful tool for fisheries research in the Tropics (III: conclusion)
(1984)Type: Journal ArticleA 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. -
Length-converted catch curves: a powerful tool for fisheries research in the Tropics (part 1)
(1983)Type: Journal ArticleA 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 ... -
Length-converted catch curves: a powerful tool for fisheries research in the Tropics (part 2)
(1983)Type: Journal ArticleA 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. -
Length-weight relationship of fishes and cephalopods from the Balearic Islands (Western Mediterranean)
(1997)Type: Journal ArticleLength-weight relationship (LWR) parameters of 72 species of fishes and 15 species of cephalopods caught in the Balearic Islands demersal fishery are reported. This is the first compilation of LWR for these groups in the ... -
Length-weight relationship of fishes from coral reefs along the coastline of Jordan (Gulf of Aqaba)
(2003)Type: Journal ArticleThe parameters a and b of the length-weight relationship of the form W = a.Lb were estimated for 15 fish species caught along the coastline of Jordan in the Gulf of Aqaba. The sampling was carried out between July 1999 and ... -
Length-weight relationship of fishes from coral reefs and lagoons of New Caledonia: an update
(1998)Type: Journal ArticleLength-weight relationships of 316 reef and lagoon fish from New Caledonia (SW Pacific Ocean) belonging to 68 families are computed. A total of 43,750 individuals was used for this purpose. Fish were sampled by different ... -
Length-weight relationship of fishes from Yemen waters (Gulf of Aden and Red Sea)
(1999)Type: Journal ArticleThe data for this study were gathered between 1993 and 1996 on board commercial trawlers from Somalia, China and Yemen and also from the research vessel Ibn Magid belonging to the Marine Science and Resources Research ...
