A brief description of the fisheries of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands is presented. This stretch of 585 islands, islets and rocks in the northeast Indian Ocean has sovereign rights to a sea area of nearly 600,000 sq/km. ...

Authors's view on using anecdotes in fishery science is presented.

This article presents a different type of bushmeat – aquatic bushmeat. The authors describe traditional fisheries in rivers of rainforest ecosystems. The case of the Campo-Ma'an Area of Southern Cameroon is analysed to ...

Summary of 2020 accomplishments

The Zhoushan fishing area contains the Zhoushan archipelagos, whose population is nearly 1 million, including over 300,000 fishermen. A detailed account is given of the environment and its resources; there are more than ...

This report covers implementation activities in seven countries namely Burundi, Cote D'Ivoire, Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, Benin and Zambia. The Aquaculture Compact during the second quarter of 2019 continued planned activities ...

A brief description of modern aims and targets for fisheries management that have been used recently is given. This covers MSY, F_max, F_msy,F_0.1, spawning stock maintenance, buffer stock ...

This study assesses the impacts of fishing bans in Bangladesh on the livelihoods of hilsa fisher communities and opportunities for improvement. This study found that although the bans have resulted in higher total hilsa ...

Banchte Shekha is an NGO based in Jessore, south-west Bangladesh that has supported the development and empowerment of poor people, particularly women. In the CBFM-2 project they found it was possible to involve women in ...

Marine fisheries production in India has increased from 0.5 million t in 1950 to 2.47 million t in 1997. The gross value of fisheries landings in India was US$2.37 billion in 1997. The contribution of fisheries to the Gross ...