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Livelihood diversification in coastal and inland fishing communities: misconceptions, evidence and implications for fisheries management
Type: Working Paper
The paper starts with a review of the concept of diversification, encompassing its associated dimensions, typology and influencing factors. Linkages between diversification and poverty are also briefly outlined in this ...
A handbook for rapid appraisal of fisheries management systems: (version 1)
Type: Book
The Rapid Appraisal of Fisheries Management Systems (RAFMS) is a semistructured research tool designed to quickly document and evaluate the existing local-level fisheries management systems in a given fishing community. ...
Institutional issues and perspectives in the management of fisheries and coastal resources in southeast Asia
Type: Report
In developing countries, institutional weaknesses and constraints are pervasive in the fisheries and coastal resources management sector. Legal, policy and institutional frameworks are not crafted to suit the unique features ...
Management of freshwater capture fisheries in Cambodia: issues and approaches
Type: Journal Article
Located in the Lower Mekong Basin, the inland waters of Cambodia support an extensive fishery and provide food security to the country's largely subsistence oriented population. Current fishery production from inland waters ...
Seasonal trawling bans can be very successful in heavily overfished areas: the "Cyprus effect"
Type: Journal Article
Seasonal trawling bans or closed seasons are among the most conventional management measures. They are more easily enforceable and, if implemented at the appropriate time of the year, usually produce good results. The ...
Restoring small-scale fisheries for tropical sea cucumbers
Type: Journal Article
Overfishing threatens to extinguish local fisheries for valuable tropical sea cucumbers by reducing population densities to the point where reproductive success trails behind natural mortality (known as depensation or the ...
The marine fisheries of Trinidad and Tobago
Type: Journal Article
The marine fisheries of Trinidad and Tobago are mainly artisanal and involve about 8,000 fishers. The main fishing gear used are the gillnets, the troll, the shrimp trawl, the fishpot and the industrial longline. Landings ...
Indicators of fishing pressure in the deepsea snapper fishery of the Kingdom of Tonga
Type: Journal Article
An examination was made of data on the length and species composition of the commercial deepsea snapper fishery of the Kingdom of Tonga in order to determine possible use of such information in the determination ofstatus ...
ACIAR_Improving fishery management in support of better governance of Myanmar’s inland and delta fisheries_Annual report 2017 - 2018
Type: Donor Report
The ACIAR project entitled ‘Improving fishery management in support of better governance of Myanmar’s inland and delta fisheries’ was approved by ACIAR 16th December 2016 and signed by WorldFish on the 22nd December 2016. ...
Putting fisheries management back in places: points of view
Type: Journal Article
Except, miraculously, for Jules Verne's, scientific predictions always turn out to be wrong. However, the 3rd Millennium is coming, fisheries resources are going, and it is impossible to resist the urge to take the plunge ...