The purposes of this paper were to firstly assess trends in North Sea pH data and to determine whether there is any long-term relationship between the pH data and the abundance of calcifying plankton.

Penaeids play an important role in the subsistence fishery conducted by residents of Suva in Laucala Bay, Fiji. Penaeus canaliculatus is the most abundant of the 6 species that occur. A brief account is given of the fishery ...

Malaysia escaped most of the tsunami damage because it was shielded by Sumatra and received only secondary waves. The northern states of Perlis, Kedah Perak and Selangor on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and the ...

Data collection for poverty assessments in Africa is time consuming, expensive and can be subject to numerous constraints. In this paper we present a procedure to collect data from poor households involved in small-scale ...

Overall history of the Network of Tropical Aquaculture Scientists (NTAS) from 1987 to 1996 was summarized, hightlighting some of its successes and failures. The views expressed are author's personal views.

Coastlines and their mangrove forests change over time under the influence of human and natural drivers. To design appropriate mangrove reforestation interventions, we use the Vietnamese province of Soc Trang, at the Bassac ...

This article assesses recent efforts in a multiethnic town in the Guatemalan highlands to address wastewater pollution, which threatens public health and tourism, the basis of the town's economy. Reporting on an ongoing ...

Lakes Malawi, Malombe and Chilwa produce almost all the fish consumed in Malawi. The ecologies of these lakes are very different. These differences present significant challenges in implementing policies and management ...

Modern databases can be successfully used to develop computer-based identification systems. In a first case study, fish larvae were identified with an average of three easily obtained characters. In a second case study, ...

Details are given of the analysis of length frequency data collected during a sampling study conducted between October 1985 and August 1986 in the Tablas Strait-Tayabas Bay region of the Central Philippines regarding the ...