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The importance of the fish resource in the Mekong River and examples of best practices
Type: Book Chapter
The Mekong is an exceptional river in many ways. In terms of fish biodiversity, it is the world’s second richest river after the Amazon (www.fishbase. org). With 6 to 18% of the global freshwater fish catch, it is also ...
Fish biodiversity research in the Mekong Basin
Type: Book Chapter
The Mekong River is one of the great rivers of the world and is characterized by high fish biodiversity. A number of organizations are working at observing and protecting aquatic biodiversity in this hotspot of global ...
Aquatic resources and environmental variability in Bac Lieu Province (Southern Vietnam)
Type: Book Chapter
The dynamics of aquatic resources in the canals of Sac Lieu Province, in southern Vietnam, are detailed and synthesized in this study. Nekton and eight environmental parameters were monitored in this province between 2004 ...
Integrated management of aquatic resources: a Bayesian Approach to water control and trade-offs in Southern Vietnam
Type: Book Chapter
The BayFish-Bac Lieu model presented in this chapter is a Bayesian model that aims to identify optimal water control regimes and trade-offs between water uses in order to improve management of water-dependent resources in ...
A digital approach to surveys in developing countries
Type: Book Chapter
In this paper, the authors present a methodology developed for gathering socioeconomic and environmental survey data in the field. The system is divided into two interfaces: i) an Android tablet with survey software for ...
Approaches and tools for sustainable management of fish resources in the Mekong River Basin
Type: Book Chapter
This paper details the approaches and tools developed at ICLARM to contribute to the sustainable management of fish as a food resource in the Mekong River Basin. Multiple partnerships have been established in order to ...
Freshwater resources conservation: an action-oriented overview
Type: Book Chapter
Biodiversity in rivers and wetlands is very seriously at risk as evident from the fact that 63% of freshwater fish species in South Africa, 42% of those in Europe and 27% of those in North America have become extinct, ...
Developing a consultative Bayesian model for integrated management of aquatic resources: an inland coastal zone case study.
Type: Book Chapter
This article presents the methodological aspects of the development of a decision support system (DSS) based on Bayesian networks and aiming at assisting in the management of water-dependent resources (rice, fish, shrimp ...