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Rebuilding coastal fisheries livelihoods after the Tsunami: key lessons from past experience
Type: Journal Article
Fishing communities around the Indian Ocean were severely affected by the December 2004 tsunamis. Programs for rebuilding coastal fisheries livelihoods need to address the pre-tsunami situation that was characterized by ...
The role of fisheries sector in the coastal fishing communities of Sri Lanka
Type: Book Chapter
Sri Lanka is an island country with a land area of 65 610 km2. With the declaration of the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in 1976, the country gained sovereign rights over an ocean area of 536 000 km2 and EEZ extending from ...
Are fishers poor or vulnerable? Assessing economic vulnerability in small-scale fishing communities
Type: Journal Article
An index of economic vulnerability is developed and used with a more conventional measure of income poverty to explore vulnerability and chronic poverty in isolated rural communities. The method is applied to data from ...
Methodology for economic valuation of food security and vulnerability to poverty for inland fisheries in Africa
Type: Other
Fish play an increasingly important role in national and local economies of many developing countries. Africa’s rivers, wetlands and lakes are especially important for poor rural households for whom they provide employment ...
Infrastructure and tonle sap fisheries : how to balance infrastructure development and fisheries livelihoods? The challenge facing decision-makers in Cambodia
Type: Brief
Cambodia's inland fisheries are the most intensive worldwide and the fourth largest overall after China, India, and Bangladesh. This brief helps decision-makers maximize the benefits of infrastructure development, while ...
Nearshore fish aggregating devices: a means of habitat protection and food security in post disaster Solomon Islands
Type: Journal Article
In the aftermath of the tsunami in 2007, in an effort to assist communities in Western Province in Solomon Islands, the World Wide Fund for Nature, Solomon Islands (WWFSI) received funding from the David and Lucille Packard ...
Fisheries co-management - an institutional innovation? Lessons from south east Asia and southern Africa
Type: Journal Article
During the last decade the co-management concept has gained increasing acceptance as a potential way forward to improve fisheries management performance. It has, however, at the same time become increasingly evident that ...
Dams and fisheries in the Mekong Basin
Type: Journal Article
This paper draws on approaches in ecology, biology and policy analysis to examine the tensions between dams and fisheries in the Lower Mekong Basin. We review the exceptional importance of Mekong fisheries in terms of total ...
Fish fights over fish rights: managing exit from the fisheries and security implications for Southeast Asia: final case study report
Type: Report
Fishery has long been part of the staple diet of the people in Cambodia. As Cambodia moves to wards a free market economy, the commercial pressure on natural resources has dramatically increased. Privatization of the ...
A preliminary assessment of the coastal fishery resources in India: socioeconomic and bioeconomic perspective
Type: Book Chapter
India is endowed with a continental shelf of 0.5 million km2 and an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of about 2 million km2. Almost half (39%) of the Indian population utilizes the marine fisheries resources. India ranked ...