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Spreading community-based resource management: Testing the "lite-touch" approach in Solomon Islands
Type: Journal Article
In Solomon Islands, community-based resource management (CBRM) is the main strategy for managing coastal fisheries. Although hundreds of communities have implemented CBRM already, the majority of Solomon Islands communities ...
Management of tropical coastal fisheries in Asia: an overview of key challenges and opportunities
Type: Conference Proceedings
Coastal fisheries are an important component of the fisheries sector and rural economy of tropical developing countries in Asia - generating food, employment and foreign exchange. In 1994, marine landings of these countries ...
Critical reflections from fostering adaptive community-based, co-management in Solomon Islands' small-scale fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Adaptive co-management approaches have been at the core of attempts to apply resilience principles to small-scale fisheries. Although recommendations of what should be done to promote resilience are commonplace, insights ...
Fisher profiles and perceptions of sea turtle-fishery interactions: case study of East Coast Peninsular Malaysia
Type: Working Paper
The paper focuses on coastal fisheries, particularly examining sea turtle-fishery interactions and determining the socioeconomic profile and perception of local fishers about sea turtle issues along the East Coast of ...
Participatory diagnosis of coastal fisheries for North Tarawa and Butaritari island communities in the Republic of Kiribati
Type: Report
In support of the Kiribati National Fisheries Policy 2013-2025, the ACIAR project "Improving Community-Based Fisheries Management in Pacific Island Countries" aims to develop and nurture the structures, processes and ...
Rapid assessment of community needs and fisheries status in tsunami-affected communities in Aceh Province, Indonesia
Type: Journal Article
This paper describes the application of the methodology called Rapid Appraisal of Fisheries Management System (RAFMS) to assess quickly the situation in tsunami-affected coastal fisheries in Aceh Province, Indonesia. As a ...
A new era for restocking, stock enhancement and sea ranching of coastal fisheries resources
Type: Journal Article
The growing number of countries investigating the potential for releasing cultured juveniles to augment coastal fisheries resulted in the First International Symposium on Stock Enhancement and Sea Ranching (ISSESR) in ...
Co-management of living coastal resources in ASEAN: theory, practice, and implications for Vietnam
Type: Report
A training course focusing upon the policy implications of the participation of resource users in fisheries management regimes was held at the headquarters of the Ministry of Fisheries of Viet Nam (57 Ngoc Ba Dinh, Ha Noi) ...
Enhanced Coastal Fisheries in Bangladesh II
Type: Brief
ECOFISH II, is a 5-year project funded by the United States Agency for International
Development (USAID). WorldFish Bangladesh is implementing the project in collaboration
with the Department of Fisheries (DoF) in Bangladesh. ...
Iluminando las cosechas ocultas: La contribución global de las pesquerías de pequeña escala para el desarrollo sostenible
Type: Brief
En el 2012, el Banco Mundial, la FAO y WorldFish publicaron un estudio llamado “La Cosecha Oculta: la Contribución Global de la Pesca de Captura.” Para apoyar la implementación de las Directrices PPEs, y en respuesta a los ...