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A taste for live fish: Hong Kong's live reef fish market
Type: Journal Article
This paper provides an overview of the live reef fish market in Hong Kong, which accounted for about 15,000 t/yr (US$345 million) of live fish imports in the mid-1990s. The live fish trade has spawned a number of management ...
Community management of Mekong River resources in Laos
Type: Journal Article
The Mekong River is one of Asia's greatest rivers. It is the lifeblood of millions of small-scale farmers and fishers in China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. In the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), ...
Lanternfish heaven: the future of world fisheries?
Type: Journal Article
The 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 ...
Pen-culture-based reservoir fisheries management: reservoir production improvement by released of pen-nursed fingerlings of selected species in Thailand
Type: Journal Article
Northeastern Thailand (Isan) is one of the least developed areas in this economically fast growing country. Traditionally, rice farming is the most important source of income and rice is the staple food. Animal protein ...
Experience of partnershp models for the co-management of Bangladesh fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Failure in the past to ascertain responsible fishing practices and equitable distribution of benefits under traditional leasing systems has motivated the Bangladesh government to work in partnership with non-governmental ...
USA rethinks fisheries management
Type: Journal Article
Fisheries in the USA are managed under the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 (MFCMA). By 1991, it was reported that fish stocks had declined considerably since the act came into force. A national ...
Assessing and managing the marine fish resources of Sierra Leone, West Africa
Type: Journal Article
A joint Sierra Leone/1CLARM project funded by the Commission of the European Communities is presented, whose task is to assemble the available survey and fisheries data on the marine fish resources of Sierra Leone, analyze ...
A process for community-based fisheries co-management
Type: Journal Article
There are many similarities, and some differences, between community-based coastal resource management (CBCRM) and co-management. When CBCRM is considered an integral part of co-management, there is a new category of ...
Co-management of beach seine fisheries in Mozambique: a case study
Type: Journal Article
In Mozambique, compliance with regulations in beach seines fishery is improved when the fishers themselves choose the season the government will declare closed. Beneficial side effects of co-management include a stronger ...
An ABC guide to coral reef fisheries in southwest Sulawesi, Indonesia
Type: Journal Article
The article serves as anecdotal directory to the major fisheries, techniques and problems faced by the fishers in the coral reef area of Spermonde Archipelago, Southwest Sulawesi, Indonesia.