Resilient small-scale fisheries: Recent submissions
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A taste for live fish: Hong Kong's live reef fish market
(1998)Type: Journal ArticleThis paper provides an overview of the live reef fish market in Hong Kong, which accounted for about 15,000 t/yr (US$345 million) of live fish imports in the mid-1990s. The live fish trade has spawned a number of management ... -
Fisheries co-management and transaction costs
(1998)Type: Journal ArticleFisheries co-management is increasingly seen as a solution to the problems of resource use conflicts and overexploitation. The importance of transactions costs may not have been given adequate attention. The transaction ... -
Marine fisheries, genetic effects and biodiversity
(1998)Type: Journal ArticlePreservation of marine biodiversity deserves serious consideration as almost 65% of the earth's organisms (excluding insects) are marine. There is little knowledge at present on the status of marine biodiversity. However, ... -
Biological reference points for managing kingfish, Scomberomorus commerson, in Oman
(1998)Type: Journal ArticleThe 1987-1995 length composition of quarterly catches of Scomberomorus commerson (Lacepede 1800) was analyzed to determine various biological reference points for management purposes. These include: fishing mortality ... -
Growth, mortality and yield-per-recruit of the poor cod, Trisopterus minutus capelanus, from the Strait of Sicily
(1998)Type: Journal ArticleLength-based methods (LBMs) were used to study the growth of Trisopterus minutus capelanus in the Strait of Sicily (Messina Strait). A total of 16,304 'merluzzetto' or poor cod collected by experimental trawling off the ... -
The marine fisheries of Trinidad and Tobago
(1998)Type: Journal ArticleThe marine fisheries of Trinidad and Tobago are mainly artisanal and involve about 8,000 fishers. The main fishing gear used are the gillnets, the troll, the shrimp trawl, the fishpot and the industrial longline. Landings ... -
A process for community-based fisheries co-management
(1998)Type: Journal ArticleThere are many similarities, and some differences, between community-based coastal resource management (CBCRM) and co-management. When CBCRM is considered an integral part of co-management, there is a new category of ... -
Policy research in fisheries: the Hirtshals consultation
(1998)Type: Conference ProceedingsThe principal theme of this Consultation was: what can fisheries policy research do to: (I) improve sector growth; (2) alleviate poverty; (3) improve food security; and (4) protect the environment in developing countries. -
Village fisheries management and community-owned marine protected areas in Samoa
(1998)Type: Journal ArticleAs in many tropical countries, subsistence fishers in Samoa live in discrete communities which have a high level of marine knowledge and some degree of control of adjacent waters. These factors provide an ideal basis for ... -
Vital statistics of marine fishes of Vanuatu
(1998)Type: Journal ArticleVital statistics are presented for 38 marine species of Vanuatu based on previous studies conducted in the area, with parameters describing growth (6 species, 13 sets of parameters), mortality (estimates of M for 6 species), ... -
Mangrove conservation and coastal management in Southeast Asia: what impact on fishery resources?
(1998)Type: Journal ArticleThis paper focuses on relationships between mangroves and coastal fish resources. A review of the literature highlights the lack of quantified relationships. We show that mangroves can be considered as a particular case ... -
Management of fisheries, coastal resources and the coastal environment in Bangladesh: legal and institutional perspectives
(1999)Type: Working PaperThis working paper is a profile analysis of the legal, institutional, and policy mechanisms of Bangladesh in its management of fisheries and coastal resources. This is one of the major outputs of the project entitled ... -
Brush shelter: a recently introduced fishing method in the Kaptai reservoir fisheries in Bangladesh
(1999)Type: Journal ArticleThis paper describes the brush shelters in Kaptai Lake based on a field survey of four major fishing grounds undertaken in Jan-Dec 1997. -
Sustainable inland fisheries management in Bangladesh
(1999)Type: Conference ProceedingsThis conference volume "Sustainable Inland Fisheries Management in Bangladesh" contains 37 papers presented at the workshop. These paper are divided into five sections namely Introduction, Institutional issues, the CBFM ... -
Fisheries co-management in Asia: phase 1 project report
(1999)Type: ReportIn 1994, the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) in Manila, Philippines and the Institute for Fisheries Management (IFM) at the North Sea Centre in Hirtshals, Denmark, in collaboration ... -
Length-weight relationship of fishes from Yemen waters (Gulf of Aden and Red Sea)
(1999)Type: Journal ArticleThe data for this study were gathered between 1993 and 1996 on board commercial trawlers from Somalia, China and Yemen and also from the research vessel Ibn Magid belonging to the Marine Science and Resources Research ... -
Occurrence and distribution of fish species off Yemen (Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea)
(1999)Type: Journal ArticleThe species list is drawn from an analysis of catches taken by Sumalian and Russian trawlers in the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea between 1985 and 1990. The southern coastline of the Republic of Yemen has been divided ... -
The capture and culture of postlarval coral reef fish: potential for new artisanal fisheries
(1999)Type: Journal ArticleThis article summarises the reasons why the removal of postlarval coral reef fish should be sustainable and identify those conditions that may require restrictions to fishing for postlarvae. The authors also outline why ... -
Use of light-attracted zooplankton for rearing post-settlement coral reef fish
(1999)Type: Book ChapterSettlement stage Lutjanus synagris and Ocyurus were caught in light traps set off fore reefs in the British Virgin Islands and raised in floating mesh cages tethered in water 1-2 m deep. Lights were designed to attract ... -
Beverton and Holt equations: spreadsheet functions and uncertainty
(1999)Type: Journal ArticleThis contribution illustrates how modern spreadsheets aid the calculation and visualization of yield models and how the effects of uncertainties may be incorporated using Monte Carlo simulation. It is argued that analogous ...
