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On traditional knowledge, fish and databases: a call for contributions
Type: Journal Article
European Union supports project to strengthen fisheries and biodiversity management in African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries
Type: Journal Article
Proper resource management implies a better understanding of ecosystems and the conservation of biodiversity. Scientists from developing countries often have limited information on their aquatic resources because of many ...
Anecdotes and the shifting baseline syndrome of fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Authors's view on using anecdotes in fishery science is presented.
A Low-level Geographic Information System for coastal zone management, with applications to Brunei Darussalam: Part I: The concept and its design elements
Type: Journal Article
This contribution is the first part of a four-part series documenting the development of B:RUN, a software program which reads data for common spreadsheets and presents them as low-resolution maps of slates and processes. ...
On Malthusian overfishing
Type: Journal Article
A brief examination is made of Malthus' works during the 1800s regarding population growth, considering applications to fisheries resources and their management.
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 ...
The Peruvian anchoveta, Charles Darwin and us
Type: Journal Article
The last decade has seen and rightly so a boom of Darwiniana, culminating in 1991, in a fascinating new biography by A. Desmond and J. Moore.' Indeed, "spicing up" one's writing with references to Charles Darwin seems one ...
The South China Sea: analyzing fisheries catch data in an ecosystem context
Type: Journal Article
The South China Sea is an important fishing area with an annual harvest of some 5 million tonnes, or 10% of the catches jointly taken by the developing nations of the world. Details are given of a model of the area describing ...
Fish production, catches and the carrying capacity of the world oceans
Type: Journal Article
A brief review of the status of the world fisheries is presented with emphasis on the differences between catches (= landings + bycatch), biological production of fish, and predation (= production - catches). The ECOPATH ...
Primary production required to sustain global fisheries
Type: Journal Article
The mean of reported annual world fisheries catches for 1988-1991 (94.3 million t) was split into 39 species groups, to which fractional trophic levels, ranging from 1.0 (edible algae) to 4.2 (tunas), were assigned, based ...