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Management of tropical coastal fisheries in Asia: an overview of key challenges and opportunities
Type: Conference Proceedings
Coastal fisheries are an important component of the fisheries sector and rural economy of tropical developing countries in Asia - generating food, employment and foreign exchange. In 1994, marine landings of these countries ...
Bioeconomic modeling and the management of capture and culture fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Bioeconomic models are quantitative models characterized by the fact that they integrated the natural and the human sides of the fisheries equation, linking biological and economic elements. Given the principally biological ...
Theory and management of tropical fisheries
Type: Conference Proceedings
The objectives of the workshop were designed to place emphasis on applications. It was perceived that the fisheries are at present so intense and the available information so limited, that a special effort should be made ...
Fisheries and the millennium development goals : solutions for Africa
Type: Brief
Africa, and in particular sub-Saharan Africa, stands out as facing tremendous difficulties in achieving even modest progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Today, over 46% of Africans live in absolute ...
Market access and trade liberalisation in fisheries
Type: Report
Fish and fish products provide important trade and livelihoods opportunities in many coastal developing countries. Nearly 40 percent of fish output is traded internationally with an export value of US$ 58.2 billion, making ...
Contribution of inland fisheries to diet and growth of children in sub-Saharan Africa: A food systems approach
Type: Presentation
This presentation highlights some of the preliminary findings from the Illuminating Hidden Harvests study, relating to the contribution of inland fisheries to diet and growth of children in sub-Saharan Africa using a food ...
USA rethinks fisheries management
Type: Journal Article
Fisheries in the USA are managed under the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 (MFCMA). By 1991, it was reported that fish stocks had declined considerably since the act came into force. A national ...
Fisheries co-management policy brief: findings from a worldwide study
Type: Brief
Fisheries in developing countries are under intense pressure from increasing human populations, overexploitation of resources and conflicts over access to degraded resources. Who should take the responsibility for managing ...
Improved fisheries productivity and management in tropical reservoirs
Type: Working Paper
The objective of the project was to contribute to the current research on reservoirs enhancement fisheries in tropical countries through the implementation of a series of action-research activities implemented in two small ...
Guide to fisheries policy research in Cambodia : the institutional and legal context
Type: Working Paper
Cambodia is in the process of developing skills and competence to prioritize and address research issues for the different levels of fisheries policy and management. This involves the acquisition of knowledge in institutional ...