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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 ...
Video technology applied to the management of Bahrain's marine resources
Type: Journal Article
Video technology has been used as a tool in research for many years. However, its widespread use as a fisheries management tool has been limited due to its relatively high cost. This is changing as video technology becomes ...
Determination of fisheries benefits from floodplain riverine systems in Bangladesh: a mathematical programming approach
Type: Journal Article
This paper presents a non-linear programming model developed to determine the total benefits obtainable from the various floodplain riverine fisheries of Bangladesh. With the help of the model, performance-response of each ...
Mafia marine resources in peril
Type: Journal Article
The rich marine resource of the Mafia District, Tanzania, especially its coral reefs and mangroves, are in danger of collapse. The proposed marine park faces chronic problems of dynamite fishing and coral mining. The Mafia ...
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 ...
Impact evaluation of community-based coastal resource management projects in the Philippines
Type: Journal Article
The benefits of decentralizing the management of coastal resources to local governments and resource users have long been recognized, but the best systems for coastal resources management depend on many factors. A number ...
Marine resources in Costa Rica
Type: Journal Article
Blessed with beautiful beaches, mangroves and coral reefs, fisheries in Costa Rica developed without a hasie resources management plan until the mid 1980s when protected areas were developed and integrated into the National ...
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 ...
Fishermen's knowledge as background information in tropical fish ecology: a quantitative comparison with fish sampling results
Type: Journal Article
An investigation of fishermen€™s knowledge of fish occurrence patterns on various spatio-temporal scales has been realized in the Fatala Estuary (Guinea, West Africa), accompanied by a one-year survey with standardized ...
Assessing and managing the marine fish resources of Sierra Leone, West Africa
Type: Journal Article
A joint Sierra Leone/1CLARM project funded by the Commission of the European Communities is presented, whose task is to assemble the available survey and fisheries data on the marine fish resources of Sierra Leone, analyze ...