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Evaluation of seagrass planting and monitoring techniques: implications for assessing restoration success and habitat equivalency
Type: Journal Article
Restoration has become an integral part of coastal management as a result of seagrass habitat loss. We studied restoration of the seagrass (Halodule wrightii) near Tampa Bay, Florida. Experimental plots were established ...
Illuminating Hidden Harvest news update - edition #1 April 2019
Type: Newsletter
The IHH newsletter provides an update on progress to date, latest news and upcoming events.
Community management yields positive impacts for coastal fisheries resources and biodiversity conservation
Type: Journal Article
Combining no-take marine reserves with exclusive access by communities to unreserved waters could provide the required incentives for community management to achieve positive impacts. However, few protected areas have been ...
Democratic Yemen fisheries: cuttlefish and sea cucumber
Type: Journal Article
Cuttlefish form the largest fishery in the coastal waters of the Yemen; Sepia pharonis is the commercial variety fished. Details are given of the fishing season, overfishing, foreign collaboration and regulation measures. ...
USAID_Enhanced Coastal Fisheries in Bangladesh (ECOFISH-Bangladesh)_Quarterly Report April to June 2019
Type: Donor Report
Enhanced Coastal Fisheries in Bangladesh (ECOFISH-Bangladesh) is a five-year initiative funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented jointly by WorldFish and the Department of ...
Socioeconomic and bioeconomic performance of Philippine fisheries in the recent decades
Type: Book Chapter
The fishing industry in the Philippines was tantamount to a marine capture fishery in the 1950s to 1960s. Aquaculture and inland fishery production were not significant. Only during the 1970s did aquaculture and inland ...
Two steps forward, two steps back: The role of innovation in transforming towards community-based marine resource management in Solomon Islands
Type: Journal Article
In many coastal nations, community-based arrangements for marine resource management (CBRM) are promoted by government, advocated for by non-government actors, and are seen by both as one of the most promising options to ...
Beyond gender-blind livelihoods: Considerations for coastal livelihood initiatives
Type: Working Paper
Sustainable and improved livelihoods are often entry points to enhance human well-being and the management of natural resources (Allison and Ellis 2001; Sulu et al. 2015). Yet research shows that many of these livelihood ...
An evaluation of resource overlaps among fishing gears in the coastal fisheries using multivariate techniques
Type: Journal Article
Southeast Asian fisheries such as in San Miguel Bay, Philippines operate in a multi-gear and mixed-species situation. Marine capture fisheries in the Philippines are conventionally sub-divided into municipal (small-scale) ...
Illuminating hidden harvests: The contribution of small-scale fisheries to sustainable development
Type: Brief
FAO, WorldFish and Duke University are working in partnership with experts globally to revisit and build on the Hidden Harvest study in 2012. Encompassing the pre-harvesting, harvesting and post-harvesting sectors of inland ...