The highly productive fisheries of Kerala, India, are suffering from overexploitation. Use of unsuitable fishing gears that result in a high level of wasteful bycatch and destruction of egg bearing and juvenile fish should ...

This final report details all the activities and outcomes of the WorldFish components of the project (6 January 2017 to 30 November). The unique combination of protecting and improving management of areas of coast while ...

This poster shows that coral reefs are a vital source of food and income for coastal communities and protect the coast from storm. Hence it is important that they are to be protected.

This volume reports the proceedings of a scientific meeting to identify ways in which international collaborative efforts in coral reef research and management can be coordinated to greatest effect. A secondary objective ...

Small-scale fisheries and aquaculture value chains are important for the livelihoods of coastal communities worldwide.

The infographic provides a snapshot of findings from the Illuminating Hidden Harvests report. The findings from the report, led by FAO, Duke University, and WorldFish, highlight the environmental, economic, nutritional, ...

During the 1930s, people in the Lake Chilwa Basin in Malawi had to cope with both the drying up of Lake Chilwa and the global economic depression. We chose to describe this confluence on Chisi Island as the 'double crisis,' ...

The potential productivity of coral reefs is discussed, considering problems involved in the different types of the reefsituations. The overall result is that coral reef fish on a world-wide basis are under-exploited.

In analyzing the structure of small scale fisheries in West Sumatra waters the need was found for diversification of current fishing gear. Trials were conducted using a coral reef longline as an alternative gear; using ...

This is a commentary on a recent study by Fluet-Chouinard et al. that assesses fish catches by counting how many fish are eaten.