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Micro-enterprise development in selected fishing communities in the province of Iloilo, Philippines
Type: Conference Paper
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations provided funding in support of the development of micro-enterprises in Banate Bay, Iloilo and Southern Iloilo. This project was implemented by the University of ...
Community based fisheries management : institutional options for empowering fisher communities
Type: Brochure
The Community Based Fisheries Management Project (CBFM-2) is the second phase of an action research project designed to establish whether the sustainable management of publicly owned and private water bodies can be carried ...
Impact of community based management approaches on fishery resource diversity of seven flowing rivers in Bangladesh
Type: Conference Paper
Research showed that fish production, abundance and biodiversity were significantly higher in CBFM project sites compared to control water bodies. Performance indicators also suggested that fisher-managed approach yielded ...
Community based fisheries management CBFM-SSEA fisheries and livelihoods impact
Type: Brochure
Research showed that community based fisheries management has significantly increased annual fish production, lifted household income levels, improved access to credit from a wide range of sources, and enabled livelihood ...
Community based fisheries management: the right option
Type: Brief
The principle behind community managed fisheries is hand over of the management of fisheries resources to community groups and they will manage the resources sustainably and equitably. The benefits of this approach are ...
Embedding co-management: community-based fisheries resource management regime in Lake Victoria, Tanzania
Type: Conference Paper
This paper discusses fisheries management reforms through involving local level institutions (LLFI). It is based on studies which were undertaken on Tanzania’s Lake Victoria fishery where LLFIs were established through the ...
Sunamganj community based resource management project (SCBRMP): an approach to sustainable beel fisheries management
Type: Conference Paper
Sunamganj is a land dominated by floodplains with seasonally flooded tectonic depressions known locally as haors and smaller water bodies known as beels. People’s livelihoods and culture are largely dominated by the haor ...
Community based management of small scale fisheries in Asia: Bridging the gap between fish supply and demand
Type: Conference Paper
Community-based management and co-management are feasible alternative approaches to bridging the gap between supply and demand. They have brought together various stakeholders to achieve improved resource and socioeconomic ...
Fisheries co-management: the Zambian experience
Type: Conference Paper
Since the late 1980’s various forms of fisheries co-management initiatives have been implemented in some of the major fisheries in Zambia. The reasons for instituting co-management arrangements have been varied and have ...
Diagnosis and management of small-scale fisheries in developing countries
Type: Journal Article
Small-scale fisheries (SSF) make important but undervalued contributions to the economies of some of the world’s poorest countries. They also provide much of the animal protein needed by societies in which food security ...