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Extension services support to small-scale fisheries, Indonesia
(1983)Type: Journal ArticleIn the mid-1970s the Indonesian government realized a need for furthering effective in-service training of government fishery development field staff. An improved system of extension service was agreed upon and technical ... -
Fisheries and aquacultural economics study programs at the Universiti Petanian Malaysia
(1982)Type: Journal ArticleIn 1971, Universiti Pertanian Malaysia (UPM) was established to provide training in agricultural and related sciences. It was the result of a merger between the College of Agriculture, Malaya (which offered diploma courses ... -
Marine fisheries statistics in Southeast Asia: a critical appraisal
(1982)Type: Journal ArticleThe major fishing countries of Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand exploit what is probably the richest and most extensive area of tropical fisheries in the world. The total annual landings ... -
Finding fisheries facts in Southeast Asia
(1982)Type: Journal ArticleTracking down fisheries references and retrieving them are often no simple matter in Southeast Asia. Here we present some of the pitfalls and solutions. The story is fictional, of course, but the events have all been ... -
After Sinarapan: the planned small-scale fish cage industry of Lake Buhi
(1982)Type: Journal ArticleThe cage culture of tilapia in Lake Buhi is described. The industry was set up in June 1979 following theexhaustion of the sinarapan fishery of the lake. The successful growth of the industry, together with the problems ... -
South Pacific tuna and billfish program
(1982)Type: Journal ArticleThe Tuna and Billfish Assessment Programme is a 3-year programme designed to provide a better understanding of the stocks of tuna and billfish throughout the central and western Pacific and also to determine the status of ... -
The research process and communication of results: lessons learned from a multidisciplinary analysis of a tropical small-scale fishery
(1983)Type: ReportAlong with an increase of their relative share of the total world catch, most tropical countries have experienced in the last decades an expansion of their fisheries research activities. These activities, whether based ... -
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 ... -
The fishes and their ecology
(1982)Type: ReportAn annotated list of 188 species of fishes recorded from San Miguel Bay, Philippines is presented. Of these, 48% are euryhaline marine species. The most abundant fishes belong to marine species whose representatives are ...
