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Genetics and the study of fisheries connectivity in Asian developing countries.
Type: Journal Article
The paper presents a brief summary of the available methods to determine connectivity using genetic markers and two examples where they have been applied in Southeast Asia. Recommendations for the more efficient conduct ...
Blast fishing in southwest Sulawesi, Indonesia
Type: Journal Article
Blast fishing has been a widespread and accepted fishing technique in Indonesia for over 50 years. The largest coral reef fishery in Indonesia is around the Spermonde archipelago in southwest Sulawesi. With the expanding ...
Overfishing in the Gulf of Thailand: policy challenges and bioeconomic analysis
Type: Journal Article
This paper estimates maximum sustainable yield and maximum economic yield from Schaefer and Fox surplus production bioeconomic models to find evidence of biological and economic overfishing, and their consequences in Gulf ...
Fish consumption pattern in major freshwater fisheries provinces of Cambodia
Type: Journal Article
Production and consumption of fish were estimated for a one year period during 1995-96 using a sample of 5 117 households. The sample was taken from a study area covering 83 sample communes in 51 fishing districts belonging ...
A framework to assess national level vulnerability from the perspective of food security: The case of coral reef fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Measuring the vulnerability of human populations to environmental change is increasingly being used to develop appropriate adaptation policies and management plans for different economic sectors. We developed a national-level ...
Finding fisheries facts in Southeast Asia
Type: Journal Article
Tracking down fisheries references and retrieving them are often no simple matter in Southeast Asia. Here we present some of the pitfalls and solutions. The story is fictional, of course, but the events have all been ...
Socioeconomic characteristics of payang seine (lampara) and driftnet fisheries in West Sumatra, Indonesia
Type: Journal Article
A proportionate random sample survey of 10 percent of the driftnet and Payang seine fishers in West Sumatra was carried out in 1998. A total of 45 driftnet and 66 lampara fishers were interviewed to obtain socioeconomic ...
The political economy of marine fisheries development in Indonesia
Type: Journal Article
Despite the importance of the fisheries sector to national welfare in Indonesia, most fishers are small-scale producers who are among the poorest of the poor in Indonesian society. Foremost among the reasons for this poverty ...
Decline of demersal coastal fisheries resources in three developing Asian countries
Type: Journal Article
Worldwide, there is serious concern about the state of fisheries; yet for Asia, which accounts for half of the global fisheries production, information on the state of fisheries in order to guide management is sparse. In ...
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 ...