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The eggs of marine crabs - an unexploited resource
Type: Journal Article
Marine crabs belonging to the family Portunidae form bycatch of shrimp trawlers in India. They are sold at low prices and consumers discard eggs and consume the meat. The paper details the nutritional value of eggs of ...
Interactions between coastal and marine ecosystems and human population systems: perspectives on how consumption mediates this interaction
Type: Journal Article
Better knowledge about the relationships among population, coastal environments, and consumption is absolutely essential if we are to arrive at adequate policies and management systems. Vibrant economic activity in the ...
Mangrove Rehabilitation in the West coast of Aceh - Issues and Perspectives
Type: Journal Article
The condition of mangroves pre- and post- tsunami and the socioeconomic role of mangrove forests in the livelihoods of coastal communities along the west coast of Aceh province, Indonesia are examined. The findings indicate ...
Disaggregated projections on supply, demand,and trade for developing asia: preliminary results from the Asiafish model
Type: Conference Proceedings
The AsiaFish model is a quantitative tool for making disaggregated projections and impact analysis for fish supply, demand, and trade. It has recently been applied to nine major fish producers in Asia (Bangladesh, China, ...
The half-lives of biological activity of some pesticides in water
Type: Journal Article
In the absence of analytical methods, the half-lives of biological activity of pesticides can be estimated by bioassays. To determine the half-lives of biological acivity of pesticides to fish, static bioassays were conducted ...
Effect of water hyacinth and chlorella on water polluted by heavy metals and the biochemical and pathophysiological response of exposed fish
Type: Conference Paper
This study aimed to investigate the capacity of selected aquatic plant (water hyacinth and Chlorella) to remove some metal pollution from the water and the effect of such reaction on the serum bichemistry and histopathology ...
A viability analysis for a bio-economic model
Type: Journal Article
This paper presents a simple dynamic model dealing with the management of a marine renewable resource. But instead of studying the ecological and economic interactions in terms of equilibrium or optimal control, we pay ...
Spatial patterns of epilithic algal and detrital resources on a windward coral reef
Type: Journal Article
Algae and detritus co-occur on reef substrata, but their relative importance to consumers, in terms of biomass and nutrient content, is poorly understood. Epilithic algae, sediment and detritus were sampled among four ...
Ecological and modelling approach to flood-fish relationships in the Mekong River Basin
Type: Conference Proceedings
In tropical floodplain systems and rivers, how to address the relationships between environmental modification due to development (dams construction, extracting water, etc...) and natural fish production? Environmental ...
Towards the index of all known species: The Catalogue of Life, its rationale, design and use
Type: Journal Article
The Catalogue of Life, created by Species 2000 and the Integrated Taxonomic Information System, has the ambitious aim of creating a uniform and validated index of the world’s known species for use as a practical tool in ...