Miscellaneous themes: Recent submissions
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An assessment of the Ponape Dory Project
(1975)Type: ReportThe Ponape Dory Project has been in existence for almost three years. It was begun in August 1972 with a Federal Office of Economic Opportunity grant of US $150,000. The initial grant was for a two-year period during which ... -
Oil, fish and the sun and the wind
(1981)Type: Journal ArticleThe energy sources of importance in the fishing industry are discussed in detail. An account is given of fish catching,fish growing and fish saving and the role energy plays in each. Wind, sun and biogas are all considered ... -
Management of multispecies stocks: a review of the theory
(1978)Type: Journal ArticleThe multitude of species contributing to the catch of the demersal fisheries of Southeast Asia, combined with an acute lack of knowledge on the biology of these species and the scarcity of good statistical data on the ... -
ICLARM's Resource Development and Management Program: the Tropical Stock Assessment Research Project
(1980)Type: Journal ArticleThe project was conceived to identify and overcome the major constraints preventing the development of stock assessment techniques appropriate to tropical stocks. These constraints are listed and the project's programme of ... -
Tropical stock assessment packages for programmable calculators and microcomputers
(1981)Type: Journal ArticleFishery biology, particularly the applied aspect of stock assessment, became a truly quantitative science in the mid-1950s, when the Beverton & Holt and Schaefer "workhorse" models for stock assessment were produced. The ... -
Management of Philippine marine parks
(1981)Type: Journal ArticleThe author gives an overview of the situation and legislation on the management of the Philippines marine parks -
Village integrated energy systems
(1981)Type: Journal ArticleThe primary factors that have caused the predicament of small-scale fishermen in India are discussed and recommendations are given. -
A selection of simple methods for the assessment of tropical fish stocks
(1980)Type: ReportThis selection of methods is based on lecture notes used at a FAO/DANIDA training course held in Mombasa, Kenya, in May-June 1980. The methods presented are: regression and correlation, estimation of growth parameters from ... -
A method to estimate the stock recruitment relationship of shrimps
(1982)Type: Journal ArticleA procedure is proposed by which recruit numbers and parental biomass of shrimps stocks can be derived, given a series of catch per effort data and estimates of a few ancillary variables. In the Gulf of Thailand, shrimp ... -
Some simple methods for the assessment of tropical fish stocks
(1983)Type: ReportThis selection of methods is based on lecture notes used at a FAO/DANIDA training course held in Mombasa, Kenya, in May-June 1980. The methods presented are: regression and correlation, estimation of growth parameters from ... -
Economic aspects of processing and marketing
(1982)Type: Book ChapterThis paper examines the pricing efficiency and related economic aspects of fish processing and marketing in two communities of San Miguel Bay, Philippines. Salting, dried fish processing and marketing and fresh fish marketing ... -
A Japanese fishing joint venture: worker experience and national development in the Solomon Islands
(1983)Type: ReportDevelopment of marine resources, especially tuna, is the key to national development for many newly-independent states of the South Pacific. They have industrialized fishing through joint ventures-collaborations between ... -
Application of length-based stock assessments to Kuwait's fish stocks
(1983)Type: Journal ArticleThis article examines the suitability of length-based methods for providing regular assessments of the stocks of the more important commercial fish species in Kuwait. To date, comparisons of age-based and length-based methods ... -
Aquatic weeds: both harmful and beneficial
(1983)Type: Journal ArticleThis article takes a brief look at both the harmful and beneficial effects of aquatic weeds. -
Silliman University marine laboratory: a commitment to marine research
(1983)Type: Journal ArticleAn historical account of the establishment of the Silliman University Marine Laboratory is given in this article. -
Uniform tuna catch statistics in the Central and Western Pacific
(1982)Type: Journal ArticleIn 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 ... -
Studying single-species dynamics in a tropical multispecies context
(1982)Type: Book ChapterSome methods available for the study of the population dynamics of tropical fish are reviewed; emphasis is given to questions of growth, mortality and recruitment, and to relatively new approaches, such as aging by means ... -
Ocean sciences in relation to living resources
(1982)Type: Journal ArticleA major new international research program of importance to fisheries is likely to be adopted later this year. Ocean Sciences in Relation to Living Resources, sponsored by FAO and IOC, a proposal concerning the relationship ... -
Systems of sharing and patterns of ownership
(1982)Type: Book ChapterSharing systems and patterns of ownerships of several common small scale gears are analysed and compared with those of the small and medium trawlers operating in San Miguel Bay, Philippines. Significant differences between ... -
Costs and earnings of mini trawlers
(1982)Type: Book ChapterMini trawlers are the smallest trawlers operating in San Miguel Bay, Philippines. This paper examines the costs and earnings of this type of gear and offers explanations for the high pure profits earned. Variations in catch ...
