Browsing Resilient small-scale fisheries by Author "The WorldFish Center"

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    • Improving fisheries in Cameroon 

      The WorldFish Center (2005)
      Type: Brochure
      The Republic of Cameroon is a tropical West African country, slightly larger than California (475,000 km2), lying 60 north of the equator and 12° east of Greenwich. Recent estimates place the population slightly above 16 ...

    • Improving livelihoods for coastal communities in the Pacific 

      The WorldFish Center (2005)
      Type: Brochure
      To achieve sustainable use of living marine resources it will be necessary, in many cases, to reduce harvest rates from present levels. This will lead to a reduction of income in the short term. Community support for ...

    • Lessons learnt in CBFM-SSEA Sunamganj district Bangladesh 

      The WorldFish Center (2007)
      Type: Brochure
      In the district of Sunamganj, Bangladesh, the sustainable resource management, which is part and parcel of the Community Based Fisheries Management (CBFM) approach, has led to documented increases in yields as well as ...

    • Pacific: improving livelihoods for coastal communities in the Pacific 

      The WorldFish Center (2005)
      Type: Brochure
      The island nations of the Pacific depend heavily on coral reef and coastal fisheries resources – globally, the highest per capita fish consumption is in the Pacific islands. Coral reefs support a rich variety of animals ...

    • Proceedings of the international workshop on the fisheries of the Zambezi Basin 

      The WorldFish Center (2007)
      Type: Conference Paper
      This report from WorldFish is divided into two sections, with annexes. Section One contains the workshop report, including the workshop results and outputs. Section Two contains summary papers of the workshop presentations ...

    • Small-scale fisheries management and governance 

      The WorldFish Center (2007)
      Type: Working Paper
      This working paper is a draft paper and used for discussion purposes only.

    • Social capital : community based fisheries management 

      The WorldFish Center (2007)
      Type: Brochure
      Globally, community based natural resources management (CBNRM) has emerged as one of the best options for achieving sustainable resource management and economic development in fisheries, as well as forestry and pastoral ...

    • Social development issues and fisheries 

      The WorldFish Center (2007)
      Type: Working Paper
      The vast majority of small-scale fisherfolk are from low-income developing countries. Recent studies of poverty in fishing communities show that cash incomes from fishing are often higher than earnings from agriculture, ...

    • The legal background to community based fisheries management in Bangladesh 

      The WorldFish Center (2007)
      Type: Brochure
      This booklet, produced as an output from the Community Based Fisheries Management Project - 2nd Phase (CBFM-2), aims to summarise the legal knowledge and experiences built up and challenges faced during the five years of ...

    • Tropical river fisheries valuation: establishing economic value to guide policy 

      The WorldFish Center (2008)
      Type: Brief
      Annual fish production from rivers and other inland fisheries is estimated at 5.5 million tons and a gross market value of $6 billion. Capturing the true economic value of fisheries to developing countries is the focus ...

    • Turning the tide : community based fisheries management protecting the poor and the environment 

      The WorldFish Center (2007)
      Type: Brochure
      The Comnmnity Based Fisheries Management (CBFM-2)' project is attempting to turn back the tide of years of environmental degradation in Bangladesh by. the responsibility for looking after inland fisheries resources to these ...