The new version of the polyester visible implant alphanumeric tag (VI Alpha tag; Northwest Marine Technology Inc., Shaw Island, Washington, USA) was evaluated in the giant river prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) under ...

Agricultural innovation systems (AIS) are increasingly recognized as complex adaptive systems in which interventions cannot be expected to create predictable, linear impacts. Nevertheless, the logic models and theory of ...

Catch and effort data from the river fisheries of the Peruvian part of Amazonia are presented, and used to fit a Schaefer-type surplus production model. This suggests that present effort is in excess of what is required ...

The sustainable management of international rivers was affirmed as a policy priority in Agenda 21 and figures as a key mandate of the Global Environment Facility. Yet, the institutions needed to translate such sustainability ...

Presentation during the MEL Training Workshop.

This study on the Integrated Municipal Council, Philippines (IMC) has the following objectives; (1) to evaluate the IMC as an institution for co-management in the coastal area of the Philippines, (2) to determine the impact ...

In the vast central and western Pacific Ocean, collection of comprehensive fisheries statistics is complicated by the large number of nations and territories governing the waters of the region and the prominence of highly ...

The increasing harvest of 7 edible seaweeds in Fiji and their importance to the economy of indigenous Fijians are discussed. Traditional methods in the collection, preparation and consumption of seaweeds by the Fijians are ...

The Lower Guinean rainforest of Southern Cameroon, continental Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the People's Republic of the Congo and its associated biodiversity is being destroyed at a rate of 1 million ha per year by poorly ...

In the Philippines, the Lingayen Gulf coastal area is an ideal site for the pilot testing of resource managementinitiatives that can be adopted to other coastal areas of the country. It is the major fishing ground of ...