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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 ...
Estimating input demand and output supply elasticities in gillnet and seine fishing in Guimaras Strait and adjacent waters
Type: Journal Article
This contribution is a summary of the results of the study conducted by the University of the Philippines in the Visayas team from November 1990 to June 1991. The purpose of this research is to estimate demand and output ...
Anecdotes and the shifting baseline syndrome of fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Authors's view on using anecdotes in fishery science is presented.
FISHSIM: a generalized fishery simulation model
Type: Journal Article
This paper describes a general bioeconomic model, FISHSIM, which uses traditional equations and submodel to represent the biological parameters of a fish stock, and simple financial equations to represent profitability of ...
Anticipated impacts of recent political changes on fisheries management in South Africa
Type: Journal Article
South Africa's marine resources are essentially fully exploited and in some cases over exploited. The Government of National Unity has embarked on the ambitious Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) to: meet the ...
Coral reef resources of East Africa, Kenya, Tanzania and the Seychelles
Type: Journal Article
Coral reefs are widespread along the east African coast and Seychelle islands. Their roles in island building and coastal protection are often underestimated, they are also important fishery habitats and major tourist ...
Mafia marine resources in peril
Type: Journal Article
The rich marine resource of the Mafia District, Tanzania, especially its coral reefs and mangroves, are in danger of collapse. The proposed marine park faces chronic problems of dynamite fishing and coral mining. The Mafia ...
The fisheries of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States
Type: Journal Article
A brief review of the main features of the Caribbean fisheries is presented covering the States of Antigua/Barbuda, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts/Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Participatory management of a reservoir fishery in northeastern Brazil
Type: Journal Article
Consensus, compromise and cooperation. That was how more than 100 fishers reached agreement on how they would manage their own fishery in a small reservoir in northeastern Brazil. The long hard road that led to the agreement, ...
Status of the world's capture fisheries
Type: Journal Article
S.M. Garcia and C. Newton of the FAO Fisheries Department have produced a critical review of the situation and its causes and effects, which was presented to the Conference on Fish-eries Management: Global Aspects, in ...