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Biodiversity of estuarine fish faunas in West Africa
Type: Journal Article
In West Africa (between Ivory Coast and Sénégal), estuarine environments vary from lagoons to high discharge rivers to inverse hypersaline estuaries. This results in a high diversity of estuarine fish species, with an ...
Using impact assessment methods to determine the effects of a marine reserve on abundances and sizes of valuable tropical invertebrates.
Type: Journal Article
Procedures for impact assessment, including "beyond-BACI" (before-after control-impact) and proportional differences (ratios between impact and control treatments) were used to test population replenishment of marine ...
Reefbase Pacific flyer
Type: Brochure
The ReefBase Pacific project is a component of the Coral Reef Initiative for the South Pacific (CRISP) (www.crisponline.net), executed by the WorldFish Center (www.worldfishcenter.org) and funded by the Agence Française ...
Cambodia's aquarian reforms : the emerging challenges for policy and research
Type: Working Paper
The main objective of the document is to make a modest attempt to highlight the challenges which are emerging with the current phase of Cambodia's aquarian reforms -- the most important component of which is the current ...
Sea cucumber identification cards: an analysis of their utility in the Pacific
Type: Journal Article
Fisheries management personnel and other stakeholders need a means of ensuring consistency when identifying the various species exploited within a fishery. We conducted a questionnaire-based survey to evaluate the usefulness ...
SLODS: slow dissolving standards for water flow measurements
Type: Journal Article
In this study, we report the development of slow dissolving standard (SLODS™), designed to estimate water flow over a lunar period (30 days). To demonstrate the usefulness and validity of this technique, we describe ...
Applying Resource Management Domain (RMD) concept to land and water use and management in the coastal zone: case study of Bac Lieu province, Vietnam
Type: Book Chapter
Because of changing hydrological conditions due to infrastructure development to prevent salinity intrusion into the coastal zone, local authorities in Bac Lieu Province, Vietnam, faced complex natural resource management ...
Community-based marine protected areas in the Bohol (Mindanao) Sea, Philippines
Type: Journal Article
This paper discusses the status, direction and management issues in the marine protected areas (MPAs) of the Bohol (Mindanao) Sea, Philippines. The MPAs in the study area have increased through the years. Many of them were ...
Taxonomy of the heavily exploited Indo-Pacific sandfish complex (Echinodermata: Holothuriidae)
Type: Journal Article
Two commercially valuable holothurians, the sandfish and golden sandfish, vary in colour and have a confused taxonomy, lending uncertainty to species identifications. A recent molecular study showed that the putative variety ...
Length-weight relationships of demersal fishes from the upper continental slope off Colombia
Type: Journal Article
Parameters of the length–weight relationship of the form W=aLb are presented for 45 demersal fish species caught on the upper continental slope of the Caribbean Sea off Colombia. The b values varied between 2.13 and 4.97, ...