Resilient small-scale fisheries: Recent submissions
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Community based fisheries management : fisheries yields and sustainability
(2007)Type: BriefThe importance of Bangladesh's inland fisheries resources for the livelihoods and food security of the poor and landless is widely acknowledged. The management of these resources, based upon a combination of short-term ... -
Community based fisheries management: the right option
(2007)Type: BriefThe 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 ... -
Fish, fishing and livelihoods : community based organisations as focus for local development
(2007)Type: BrochureThe central tenet to Community Based Fisheries Management (CBFM) is that users dependent on a common resource, in this case fishers and other households depending on wild fish to catch, will harvest that resource in a ... -
The legal background to community based fisheries management in Bangladesh
(2007)Type: BrochureThis booklet, produced as an output from the Community Based Fisheries Management Project - 2nd Phase (CBFM-2), aims to summarise the legal knowledge and experiences built up and challenges faced during the five years of ... -
Social capital : community based fisheries management
(2007)Type: BrochureGlobally, community based natural resources management (CBNRM) has emerged as one of the best options for achieving sustainable resource management and economic development in fisheries, as well as forestry and pastoral ... -
Community based fisheries management : institutional options for empowering fisher communities
(2007)Type: BrochureThe 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 ... -
Water requirements of floodplain rivers and fisheries : existing decision support tools and pathways for development
(2007)Type: ReportThis report comprehensively reviews current environmental flow methodologies and fisheries production models to show that the combination of the DRIFT (Downstream Response to Imposed Flow Transformation) methodology and ... -
Projections of supply and demand for the trade in live reef-fish for food
(2007)Type: Conference PaperThis study adopted an extended version of the AsiaFish model to quantify future changes in supply and demand for live reef-fish as food arising from new technology, management practices and economic growth. It simulated ... -
Marketing systems for fish from Lake Tana, Ethiopia: opportunities for improved marketing and livelihoods
(2007)Type: ReportThis study examined the domestic trade in frozen fish sourced from Lake Tana, Ethiopia and identified uneven demand and supply, high harvesting cost, high price, great distance from market, low fish quality as the main ... -
Small-scale fisheries management and governance
(2007)Type: Working PaperThis working paper is a draft paper and used for discussion purposes only. -
Social development issues and fisheries
(2007)Type: Working PaperThe vast majority of small-scale fisherfolk are from low-income developing countries. Recent studies of poverty in fishing communities show that cash incomes from fishing are often higher than earnings from agriculture, ... -
Community based fisheries management : livelihoods impact
(2007)Type: BriefThe Community Based Fisheries Management Project has been implemented since 1995 by the Department of Fisheries (DoF) with the assistance of the WorldFish Center. It has worked in a range of water bodies across Bangladesh, ... -
Community management as part of the inland capture fisheries strategy in Bangladesh
(2007)Type: Conference PaperBangladesh has had comprehensive experience of community based management for inland capture fisheries from several projects (revenue and externally funded) over the last 10 to 15 years. The lessons were extensively used ... -
CBFM-2 International conference on community based approaches to fisheries management
(2007)Type: Conference PaperThe CBFM international conference held on 6th and 7th March 2007 in Dhaka, Bangladesh brought together policy makers, scientists and development practioners from all over the world to share experiences in co-mangement of ... -
Proceedings of the international workshop on the fisheries of the Zambezi Basin
(2007)Type: Conference PaperThis report from WorldFish is divided into two sections, with annexes. Section One contains the workshop report, including the workshop results and outputs. Section Two contains summary papers of the workshop presentations ... -
Impact of community based management approaches on fishery resource diversity of seven flowing rivers in Bangladesh
(2007)Type: Conference PaperResearch 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 ... -
Utilization of wetland ecosystem through fish-crop diversification for enhanced productivity and economic stability for fish-farm community of Indian sub-continent
(2007)Type: Conference PaperThis paper deals with a number of case studies that were undertaken during the last 8- 10 years in utilizing divergent ‘Tal’ wetland ecosystems (deep, semi-deep, temporary in a range of agro-ecological zones like NAZ, OAZ ... -
When co-management fails: a review of theory and lessons learned from reservoir fisheries in dry-zone of Sri Lanka
(2007)Type: Conference PaperOver recent decades co-management has become an increasingly popular form of governance reform in many developing countries. Viewed as a means of promoting sustainable and equitable management of natural resources, it has ... -
Turning social capital into natural capital: Changing livelihoods of fishers through CBFM
(2007)Type: Conference PaperImpact surveys revealed that CBFM had significantly improved social capital and household income of fishers. Fishers have better access to land and fishing grounds, more diversified livelihood options, greater amount of ... -
Embedding co-management: community-based fisheries resource management regime in Lake Victoria, Tanzania
(2007)Type: Conference PaperThis 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 ...