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ASFA Magazine Issue #5 December 2020
(2021)Type: NewsletterIn this issue, we celebrate ASFA’s upcoming 50th Anniversary. ASFA was first published as a monthly printed journal of fisheries and aquaculture abstracts in 1971 and in this issue, we look back over ASFA’s past, as well ... -
Assessing forest canopy closure in a geospatial medium to address management concerns for tropical islands: Southeast Asia
(2010)Type: Journal ArticleThe present study outlines an approach to classify forest density and to estimate canopy closure of the forest of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago. The vector layers generated for the study area using satellite data was ... -
Assessment of capabilities, needs of communities, opportunities and limitations of weather forecasting for coastal regions of Bangladesh
(2013)Type: ReportThis report is intended to provide a range of background material in relation to Bangladesh and weather event forecasting, forecast information dissemination, and the implications of weather events and forecasting for ... -
Assessment of forest fragmentation and species diversity in North Andaman Islands (India): a geospatial approach
(2009)Type: Journal ArticleThe present study was carried out in the context of conservation biology research, focusing on the species diversity in the fragmented landscapes of island ecosystem. The study analyzed the levels of forest fragmentation ... -
Assessment of the impact of aquatic resources research by ICLARM: scope and methodologies
(1999)Type: Journal ArticleThe importance of quantifying the economic returns to investments in aquatic resources research together with the social, environmental and institutional impacts of such investments is widely recognized among ICLARM's ... -
Atlas demographique des populations de poissons d'eau douce d'Afrique
(1995)Type: ReportGrowth and catch curves plus recruitment and selection patterns of 57 stocks and 47 species of African freshwater fishes are presented. The atlas also includes mortality estimates, information on food and feeding habits, ... -
Automatic data processing for licensing and information management of foreign vessel access fisheries
(1984)Type: Journal ArticleAn system is described for the processing of data regarding the licensing and management of foreign fishing. -
Baguio Resolution on Coastal Resources Management
(1990)Type: Conference ProceedingsThe publication presents the "Baguio Resolution on Managing ASEAN's Coastal Resources for Sustainable Development" which was agreed during an international conference held in the Philippines in March 1990 where policymakers ... -
BANA Introduction Animation Video
Type: VideoThe five-year WorldFish-led, USAID-funded, Feed the Future Bangladesh Aquaculture and Nutrition Activity aims at the sustainable and inclusive growth of the aquaculture sector in Bangladesh through a market systems approach. ... -
Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) Economic Corridor: Challenges and prospects
(2018)Type: Journal ArticleThe Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), ostensibly a connectivity and developmental program, was launched by the Chinese President Xi Jinping with the primary objective of connecting the common people in Asia through trade, ... -
Baseline studies of biodiversity: the fish resources of Western Indonesia
(1996)Type: Working PaperThis book presents and analyzes data on fish resources collected in Western Indonesia during bottom trawl surveys conducted from 1974 to 1981 by a variety of research vessels. The data identify fish communities that ... -
Baseline study: nutritional status, food security and fish consumption among people living with HIV/AIDS in Zambia
(2010)Type: ReportUnder the regional programme Fisheries and HIV/AIDS in Africa, the University of Zambia, in collaboration with the WorldFish Center, has undertaken a baseline survey of the nutritional status and fish consumption of people ... -
Beam trawlermen take feet off gas in response to oil price hikes
(2012)Type: Journal ArticleAverage towing speed by Dutch beam trawlermen has fallen substantially between 2002 and 2009. Changes in towing speed are related to changes in oil price. The price of their valuable main target species (sole, Solea vulgaris) ... -
Being Sadharana: talking about the just business person in Sri Lanka
(2010)Type: Book ChapterThe ethics of business is a very old problem, debated extensively by philosophers, writers and social scientists, and it underpins current concepts of social justice within a market economic system. In rural societies, ... -
Benefits of MPA
(2021)Type: PosterPoster prepared for raising awareness on Marine Protected Area. -
Beyond social-ecological traps: fostering transformations towards sustainability
(2021)Type: Journal ArticleThis Special Feature is motivated by the rigorous, and growing, theoretical and empirical body of literature on social- ecological traps. Building on the foundational literature, which describes the context in many of the ... -
Beyond social-ecological traps: Pathways to a sustainable future
Type: BlogIn development and resilience research, the metaphor of a ‘trap’ is commonly employed to convey the rigidity that can be associated with complex systems. In practical meaning, and in their mechanical workings, traps are ... -
Bias in lobster tethering experiments conducted for selecting low-predation release sites
(2008)Type: Journal ArticleJuvenile spiny lobsters <i>Jasus edwardsii</i>, grown in tanks for 1 yr following capture as pueruli, may be released to coastal reefs in Tasmania, Australia, to offset possible stock depletion resulting from the harvest ... -
Bias in the Wetherall estimates of Z/K and L due to population disequilibria
(1991)Type: Journal ArticleThe method of Wetherall (1986, Fishbyte 4(1):12-14) for estimating Z/K and L sub( infinity ) from length-frequency data sampled from a population in equilibrium (constant recruitment and mortality) was examined through ... -
Bibliographic impact of ICLARM
(1990)Type: ReportA study was made of the availability and impact of the publications and other contributions to the literature of the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM), based in the Philippines. The ...
