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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 ...
River fisheries: ecological bases for management and conservation
Type: Report
Large rivers and their floodplains support a significant proportion of the world’s biodiversity and provide important goods and ecological services to society, including fisheries. Riverine ecosystems and fisheries are ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
The potential role of restocking and stock enhancement in the management of marine invertebrate fisheries in the Philippines
Type: Book Chapter
Throughout Southeast Asia, capture fisheries are no longer yielding their potential harvests - in many cases, the abundance of valuable species has been reduced to 10% of previous levels (Silvestre ef al., in press). The ...
Evaluating the management effectiveness of marine protected areas at seven selected sites in the Philippines
Type: Journal Article
Fisheries is a vital sector in the Philippine economy, providing a significant source of both domestic and export earnings while meeting essential food security and nutritional requirements. However, marine resources in ...