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Fisheries management in Malawi: a patchwork of traditional, modern, and post-modern regimes unfolds
Type: Book Chapter
This cases study provides an overview of how the roles of different stakeholders and institutions in fisheries management have evolved during the past century in Malawi.
What can be done to restore Pacific turtle populations?: The Bellagio blueprint for action on Pacific sea turtles
Type: Report
The Bellagio Blueprint for Action on Pacific Sea Turtles is an outcome of the Bellagio Conference on the Conversation and Sustainable Management of Sea Turtles organized jointly by the WorldFish Center and U.S. NOAA ...
Tropical river fisheries valuation: background papers to a global synthesis
Type: Working Paper
This report is a compilation of five regional reviews that document the global status of tropical rivers and inland fisheries in three continents: Latin America, Africa and Asia. It explores the role of valuation methods ...
Fisheries policy research in developing countries: issues, priorities and needs
Type: Conference Proceedings
Proceedings of an international consultation held on 2-5 June 1997 in the North Sea Centre, Hirtshals, Denmark. Organized into three sessions, the first session focused on policy issues related to major changes in the ...
Food security and poverty alleviation through improved valuation and governance of river fisheries in Africa
Type: Report
The project aims to sustain and improve the livelihoods of the rural poor who depend on fisheries for their employment, income and food security along the rivers of the Lake Chad and Zambezi basins. Its purpose is to ...
A review of natural resource laws and policies in Indonesia and its prospect for fisheries co-management
Type: Report
In the Sixth Five-Year Plan (1994-1999) the Government of Indonesia is starting to decentralize the management of natural resources to lower level authorities. This devolvement of management is seen in the case of forestry ...
Fisheries co-management and small-scale fisheries: a policy brief
Type: Brief
This policy briefs addresses some of the issues and options available in managing all fisheries, including small-scaleones. The argument is that recent lessons point to potential benefits in some fisheries from management ...
Fisheries policies for a new era
Type: Brief
There is a growing recognition that the fisheries policies of the past have been driven primarily by environmental and economic research agendas. This may have been due to the influence of the more powerful actors in the ...
Innovations in capture fisheries are an imperative for nutrition security in the developing world
Type: Journal Article
This article examines two strands of discourse on wild capture fisheries; one that focuses on resource sustainability and environmental impacts, another related to food and nutrition security and human well-being. Available ...
Redirecting benefits to genuine fishermen: Bangladesh's new fisheries management policy
Type: Journal Article
In 1986 the government of Bangladesh decided to pursue a new fisheries management policy (NFMP) that would allow fishing access only to the genuine fishers with the following main objectives: to free the fishers from ...