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Profitability of small-scale fisheries in Elmina, Ghana
Type: Journal Article
In order to achieve sustainable fishing livelihoods in coastal communities, data on profitability of small-scale fisheries relative to fish species caught and gear types used by fishermen is required as part of a broader ...
The fisheries of St. Lucia, West Indies
Type: Journal Article
An overview of the fisheries of St. Lucia using currently available information is presented. The fisheries are entirely artisanal, characterized by relatively simple and inexpensive gears and boats. The 2,100 fishers (who ...
Fisheries traditions in Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
The role that sociocultural and religious beliefs play in evolving an implicit mechanism for exploiting and managing the fish stocks of Bangladesh is discussed.
Fisheries of the Farasan Islands (Red Sea)
Type: Journal Article
The fisheries of the Farasan Islands (Saudi Arabia, Red Sea) are described. The fishery resources are exploited by artisanal, investor and industrial sectors. The artisanal fishery consists mostly of line fishing around ...
Navigating change: Second-generation challenges of small-scale fisheries co-management in the Philippines and Vietnam
Type: Journal Article
Early efforts to apply the concept of fisheries co-management in Southeast Asia focused primarily on building the effectiveness of local management institutions and advocating the merits of the approach so that it would ...
A comparison of monofilament gillnet and small hook longline selectivity in a multispecies artisanal fishery in the Algarve, southern Portugal
Type: Journal Article
As part of the ongoing studies concerned with the small-scale fisheries of the South of Portugal, experimental fishing was carried out with monofilament gillnets and small hook longlines within the same area. Sixty-two ...
Primary fisheries management: a minimum requirement for provision of sustainable human benefits in small-scale fisheries
Type: Journal Article
The social and economic importance of small-scale fisheries is frequently under-valued, and they are rarely effectively managed. There is now growing consensus on how these fisheries could be managed for sustainability and ...
Customary law and lore of the sea
Type: Journal Article
Customary sea tenure together with traditional knowledge of marine resources and its application to their management is discussed in this article.
Assessing the impact of fisheries co-management interventions in developing countries: a meta-analysis
Type: Journal Article
Co-management is now established as a mainstream approach to small-scale fisheries management across the developing world. A comprehensive review of 204 potential cases reveals a lack of impact assessments of fisheries ...
Traditional beliefs and fisheries management in Oceania
Type: Journal Article
An examination is made of fisheries management in the islands of Oceania, and problems caused by traditional beliefs and custom