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Is community-based fisheries management realising multiple objectives? Examining evidence from the literature
Type: Journal Article
Community-based and co-management approaches are key strategies for small-scale fisheries management. The expansion of these approaches is particularly apparent in the Pacific, where communities rely heavily on small-scale ...
Community-based fisheries management approach adopted in Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
The Community Based Fisheries Management (CBFM) Project, funded by the Ford Foundation (1994-1999) and the UK Government's Department for International Development (2002- 2006), aimed to promote the sustainable use of, and ...
When fishery rhymes with poverty: a first step beyond the old paradigm on poverty in small-scale fisheries
Type: Journal Article
In this paper, we first look retrospectively at the perceptions embraced by academics, international agencies and practitioners of the relation between fisheries and poverty in developing countries and we try to identify ...
Tinker, tailor or transform: Gender equality amidst social-ecological change
Type: Journal Article
Global visions of environmental change consider gender equality to be a foundation of sustainable social-ecological systems. Similarly, social-ecological systems frameworks position gender equality as both a precursor to, ...
Ecoviability for ecosystem-based fisheries management
Type: Journal Article
Reconciling food security, economic development and biodiversity conservation is a key challenge, especially in the face of the demographic transition characterizing many countries in the world. Fisheries and marine ...
Simulating fisheries for the assessment of optimum harvesting strategies
Type: Journal Article
Some results of a line of research explored by the author in recent years, and concerning the small-scale fisheries of Mexico are discussed. Clarity of goals for fisheries management is stressed as a departure point before ...
A framework to assess national level vulnerability from the perspective of food security: The case of coral reef fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Measuring the vulnerability of human populations to environmental change is increasingly being used to develop appropriate adaptation policies and management plans for different economic sectors. We developed a national-level ...
Small-scale fishery of Pichavaram mangrove swamp, Southeast India
Type: Journal Article
A description of the small-scale fishery of Pichavaram mangrove, southeast India is given, with emphasis on catch composition, catch per effort and deployment of various gear types.
Fishlore in the Central Philippines and its role in development
Type: Journal Article
Development of the Philippine fishery industry is discussed with respect to the role played by traditional beliefs ofthe Visayan fisherfolk.
When is a fisher (not) a fisher? Factors that influence the decision to report fishing as an occupation in rural Cambodia
Type: Journal Article
In the developing world, the majority of people who fish in inland areas do so primarily for subsistence needs. This suggests that survey or census questionnaires which collect information concerning the occupations of ...