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Ecosystem approach to small scale tropical marine fisheries: Tanzania
Type: Brochure
Throughout the world, poor fisheries management contributes to resource degradation, poverty, and food insecurity. This European Union project on an Ecosystem Approach to Small-scale Tropical Marine Fisheries is led by ...
An Ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) in Misamis Occidental, Philippines
Type: Brochure
WorldFish, with funding support from the European Commission (EC), is undertaking a project with sites in Indonesia, Philippines, Solomon Islands and Tanzania. Titled Implementing an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF) ...
Community-based marine resource management in Solomon Islands: A facilitators guide. Based on lessons from implementing CBRM with rural coastal communities in Solomon Islands (2005-2013)
Type: Manual
This guide was developed to document the process and activities that WorldFish staff have used and adapted as facilitators working with communities interested in marine resource management in Solomon Islands. It draws on ...
Ecosystem-based management objectives for the North Sea: riding the forage fish rollercoaster
Type: Journal Article
The North Sea provides a useful model for considering forage fish (FF) within ecosystem-based management as it has a complex assemblage of FF species. This paper is designed to encourage further debate and dialogue between ...
Training Workshop Proceedings: Adaptive Co-management of Fisheries
Type: Conference Paper
The Adaptive Collaborative Management of Fisheries Training workshop was held in Sekondi, Western Region of Ghana as part of the project 'Integrated Coastal and Fisheries Governance Initiative' locally referred to as 'H n ...
Fishing dynamics associated with periodically harvested marine closures
Type: Journal Article
Periodically-harvested fisheries closures are emerging as a socially acceptable and locally implementable way to balance concerns about conserving ecosystem function and sustaining livelihoods. Across the Indo-Pacific ...
Determination of moulting events in rock lobsters from pleopod clipping
Type: Journal Article
Rock lobster growth is routinely measured for research to optimise management measures such as size limits and quotas. The process of estimating growth is complicated in crustaceans as growth only occurs when the animal ...
Evaluating the effect of fishery closures: Lessons learnt from the Placie Box
Type: Journal Article
To reduce discarding of plaice Pleuronectes platessa in the North Sea flatfish fisheries, the major nursery areas were closed to large trawlers in 1995. The area closed was named the ‘Plaice Box’ (PB) and beam trawl effort ...
Hen Mpoano, our Coast, our Future. Western Region of Ghana. Building capacity for adapting to a rapidly changing coastal zone: Lessons learned
Type: Report
Our Coast, Our Future: Western Region of Ghana was the first major product of the Hen Mpoano initiative, published in 2010. It made the case that a process is needed which is grounded in the belief that a fresh approach ...
Managing fisheries for human and food security
Type: Journal Article
We evaluate the current status of the global marine fisheries using the frameworks of conflict, food security and vulnerability. Existing trends suggest that there is likely to be greater food insecurity and fisheries ...