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South and south-east Asian coastal fisheries: their status and directions for improved management: conference synopsis and recommendations
Type: Conference Paper
As a step to address the problems of coastal fisheries in Asia, the WorldFish Center joined forces with fisheries agencies from eight developing Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, Sri ...
Philippine coastal fisheries situation
Type: Conference Proceedings
The fisheries sector in the Philippines provides a significant contribution to the na-tional economy in terms of income, foreign exchange and employment. In 2000, total fish production was estimated at 2.94 million t, 84% ...
Assessment, management and future directions for coastal fisheries in Asian countries
Type: Conference Proceedings
In Asia, the fisheries sector is important in terms of food security, livelihoods and foreign exchange earnings. However, as in many parts of the world, there are signs that capture fisheries are fully exploited or overfished. ...
Fisheries impact on the South China Sea large marine ecosystem: a preliminary analysis using spatially-explicit methodology
Type: Conference Proceedings
A multiple regression model is derived, based on biomass estimates in 16 massbalance food web (Ecopath) models, which explains 68 % of the variation in the data at hand, and shows that the abundance of fish with trophic ...
A trophic model of the coastal fisheries ecosystem off the west coast of Sabah and Sarawak, Malaysia
Type: Book Chapter
A mass-balance steady-state trophic model of the coastal fisheries ecosystem off the West Coasts of Sabah and Sarawak, Malaysia (10 - 60 m depth) was constructed using the Ecopath software. The ecosystem models were ...