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Overview of the national fisheries situation with emphasis on the demersal fisheries off the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia
Type: Book Chapter
The marine fisheries sector in Malaysia contributes significantly to the national economy in terms of income, foreign exchange and employment. In 1999, marine fisheries contributed 1.245 million t (90% of total fish ...
Community-based and co-management institutions for sustainable coastal fisheries management in Southeast Asia
Type: Journal Article
Fisheries experts now recognize that resource conflicts can be diminished and resources better managed when fishers and other resource stakeholders are more involved in management, and access rights are distributed more ...
Inland community fisheries in southern Laos
Type: Journal Article
Since 1993, a series of aquatic resource co-management workshops have been on-going, established by the Lao government and fisheries agencies for village farmers in the Khong District in southern Laos, aiming for a sustainable ...
Fisheries co-management - an institutional innovation? Lessons from south east Asia and southern Africa
Type: Journal Article
During the last decade the co-management concept has gained increasing acceptance as a potential way forward to improve fisheries management performance. It has, however, at the same time become increasingly evident that ...
Method of consensus building: community based aquatic habitat and floodplain fisheries management in the Mekong Delta
Type: Report
ICLARM's experience in community based resource management in Bangladesh has showed that consensus building among all stakeholder groups in a community who use and benefit from the resources are an essential element of any ...
Status and management of the Java sea fisheries
Type: Book Chapter
The Java Sea is a major fishing ground in Indonesia contributing 31% of the national marine fisheries production. Demersal and small pelagic fishery resources account for most production in the area. During the 1960s and ...
Overfishing in the Gulf of Thailand: policy challenges and bioeconomic analysis
Type: Journal Article
This paper estimates maximum sustainable yield and maximum economic yield from Schaefer and Fox surplus production bioeconomic models to find evidence of biological and economic overfishing, and their consequences in Gulf ...
ADB_Strengthening Coastal and Marine Resource Management in the Coral Triangle of the Pacific: National Fisheries Strategy for Timor-Leste_Final report
Type: Donor Report
A high-priority objective of the Government of Timor-Leste, as articulated in the Timor-Leste Strategic Development Plan (2011 – 2030), is addressing malnutrition and food sovereignty though building national food production ...
Development of fisheries co-management in Cambodia : a case study and its implications
Type: Working Paper
The livelihoods and food security of many Cambodians depend heavily on inland capture fisheries, so the sustainable management of these fisheries is very important. Notwithstanding, the sustainability of Mekong fisheries ...
Navigating change: Second-generation challenges of small-scale fisheries co-management in the Philippines and Vietnam
Type: Journal Article
Early efforts to apply the concept of fisheries co-management in Southeast Asia focused primarily on building the effectiveness of local management institutions and advocating the merits of the approach so that it would ...