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A roadmap for the future for fisheries and conservation
Type: Conference Proceedings
As a part of 1996 World Conservation Congress (WCC), the IUCN - The World Conservation Union convened a Marine and Coastal Workshop on 17-18 October 1996 in Montreal Canada. This conference proceedings entitled "A roadmap ...
Village fisheries management and community-owned marine protected areas in Samoa
Type: Journal Article
As in many tropical countries, subsistence fishers in Samoa live in discrete communities which have a high level of marine knowledge and some degree of control of adjacent waters. These factors provide an ideal basis for ...
Fisheries management of San Salvador Island, Philippines: a shared responsibility
Type: Journal Article
The authors discuss how the fisher community and the government shared responsibility over time for regenerating and conserving fishery resources in San Salvador Island, Philippines, and rose above the obstacles associated ...
Marine reserves: they enhance fisheries, reduce conflicts, and protect resources
Type: Journal Article
Marine fishery reserves, its fishery and non fishery benefits are discussed. Problems with marine fishery reserves are also pointed out.
Status of the world's capture fisheries
Type: Journal Article
S.M. Garcia and C. Newton of the FAO Fisheries Department have produced a critical review of the situation and its causes and effects, which was presented to the Conference on Fish-eries Management: Global Aspects, in ...
The South China Sea: analyzing fisheries catch data in an ecosystem context
Type: Journal Article
The South China Sea is an important fishing area with an annual harvest of some 5 million tonnes, or 10% of the catches jointly taken by the developing nations of the world. Details are given of a model of the area describing ...
The Marine Stewardship Council: new hope for marine fisheries
Type: Journal Article
To help reverse the downward trends for the world's marine fish stocks, the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Aglo-Dutch Unilever have jointly formed the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), an independent, non-profit, ...
The Programme for Integrated Development of Artisanal Fisheries in West Africa
Type: Journal Article
The Programme for Integrated Development of Artisanal Fisheries in West Africa (IDAF) was initiated in 1983 to help some 20 coastal states from Mauritiana to Angola which wished to develop and manage their artisanal fisheries ...
Marine fisheries of Karnataka State, India
Type: Journal Article
This contribution provides an overview of the marine capture fisheries off the coast of Karnataka State, India. It covers the main fisheries and fishing gears, production trends (by main species /groups and gears), assessment ...
Testing the use of a marine protected area to restore and manage invertebrate fisheries at the Arnavon Islands, Solomon Islands: choice of methods and preliminary results
Type: Conference Proceedings
This project aims to determine if the number and size of commercially important invertebrates (e.g. trochus, sea cucumbers and giant clams) increases as the result of the declaration of the Arnavon Islands Marine Conservation ...