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When should restocking and stock enhancement be used to manage sea cucumber fisheries?
Type: Report
Access to technology for producing and releasing juveniles is not a sufficient rationale to proceed with restocking (restoring stocks to the point where they can sustain regular harvests) or stock enhancement (increasing ...
Management of restocking and stock enhancement programs: the need for different approaches
Type: Book
Availability of technology for producing and releasing juveniles in the wild is not all that is required to proceed with programs for restocking (restoring stocks to the point where they can sustain regular harvests) and ...
What can be done to restore Pacific turtle populations?: The Bellagio blueprint for action on Pacific sea turtles
Type: Report
The Bellagio Blueprint for Action on Pacific Sea Turtles is an outcome of the Bellagio Conference on the Conversation and Sustainable Management of Sea Turtles organized jointly by the WorldFish Center and U.S. NOAA ...
Biodiversity, management and utilization of West African fishes
Type: Book
Since 1997, the WorldFish Center (formerly known as ICLARM) currently headquartered in Malaysia, the CSIR-Water Research Institut (WRI) at Accra in Ghana, and the Univerity of Hamburg’s Institut und Zoologisches Museum in ...
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 ...
Value of river fisheries
Type: Conference Proceedings
This paper examines the importance of accurately valuing the fisheries of large rivers (and in all ecosystems) and how such information can be used to maintain, improve and develop inland fisheries and ecosystem services, ...
Fish fights over fish rights: Philippine case study on conflict over use of municipal water: synthesis of three case studies in the Visayan Sea
Type: Report
To enable an understanding of the dynamics of fishing overcapacity, conflicts and security issues in the Philippines, a case study is drawn of the fisheries conflicts arising from zoning regulations. A semi-structured ...
Padal fishing - a unique fishing method in the Ashtamudi Estuary of Kerala (south India)
Type: Journal Article
Bush park fishing / padal fishing is an indigenous fishing method widely employed in the Ashtamudi estuary of Kerala (south India). An artificial reef made from twigs and leaves of trees is planted in the shallow areas of ...
Population parameters and exploitation rate of demersal fishes in Brunei Darussalam (1989-1990)
Type: Journal Article
In this paper, we document the results of retrospective analysis of length frequency data collected during a trawl survey in Brunei Darussalam from July 1989 to June 1990. The study forms part of concerted efforts under ...
Criteria for release strategies and evaluating the restocking of sea cucumbers
Type: Report
Conservative management should be the key to sustainable sea cucumber fisheries, and the release of hatchery-produced juveniles could speed the recovery of depleted stocks. Advances in methods for culturing sea cucumbers ...