WorldFish Repository: Recent submissions
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Mafia marine resources in peril
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleThe rich marine resource of the Mafia District, Tanzania, especially its coral reefs and mangroves, are in danger of collapse. The proposed marine park faces chronic problems of dynamite fishing and coral mining. The Mafia ... -
An ABC guide to coral reef fisheries in southwest Sulawesi, Indonesia
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleThe article serves as anecdotal directory to the major fisheries, techniques and problems faced by the fishers in the coral reef area of Spermonde Archipelago, Southwest Sulawesi, Indonesia. -
Estimating input demand and output supply elasticities in gillnet and seine fishing in Guimaras Strait and adjacent waters
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleThis contribution is a summary of the results of the study conducted by the University of the Philippines in the Visayas team from November 1990 to June 1991. The purpose of this research is to estimate demand and output ... -
USA rethinks fisheries management
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleFisheries in the USA are managed under the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 (MFCMA). By 1991, it was reported that fish stocks had declined considerably since the act came into force. A national ... -
Twenty per cent of the world fisheries catch is discarded
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleIn a landmark study of the annual quantity of incidental organisms discarded during fishing operations, a new estimate of 27 million tonnes worldwide has been determined. -
Status of the world's capture fisheries
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleS.M. Garcia and C. Newton of the FAO Fisheries Department have produced a critical review of the situation and its causes and effects, which was presented to the Conference on Fish-eries Management: Global Aspects, in ... -
Primary production required to sustain global fisheries
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleThe mean of reported annual world fisheries catches for 1988-1991 (94.3 million t) was split into 39 species groups, to which fractional trophic levels, ranging from 1.0 (edible algae) to 4.2 (tunas), were assigned, based ... -
Stock assessment of the anchovy Cetengraulis mysticetus (Pisces: Engraulidae) in the inner part of the Gulf of Nicoya, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleA study of the population dynamics of the anchovy Cetengraulis mysticetus is presented, based on two sets of length-frequency dates from the artisanal fishery of the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica, between 1989/90 and 1992/93. ... -
Economic incentives for water resource management in the Pak Phanang river basin of southern Thailand
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleThe study examines the existing water allocation methods and other policies that provide constraints or incentives for the most efficient use of water resources. Given the production condition of the local people, and the ... -
Collaborative training program in coastal management in the Philippines: a local initiative with a global perspective
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleA collaborative project in developing a broad-based coastal management training program in the Philippines is being undertaken by a group of government and nongovernment agencies. It addresses the lack of expertise in ... -
Atlas demographique des populations de poissons d'eau douce d'Afrique
(1995)Type: ReportGrowth and catch curves plus recruitment and selection patterns of 57 stocks and 47 species of African freshwater fishes are presented. The atlas also includes mortality estimates, information on food and feeding habits, ... -
Artificial reefs in the Philippines
(1995)Type: Conference ProceedingsThis workshop and the resulting proceedings came into being as a result of cumulative concerns by aid agencies, nongovernmental organizations and by government authorities and researchers on the mass installation of artificial ... -
Patterns of publication by the staff of an international fisheries research center
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleThe scientific productivity, measured as number of publication credits per year, of 105 BS, MS and PhD degree holders at the authors' institution - a non profit international fisheries research organization based in Manila ... -
Sierra Leone Industrial Fishery Database System (IFDaS) : user manual
(1995)Type: ManualThis document introduces the user of the Sierra Leone Industrial Fishery Database System (IFDaS) to the features of the database in respect to entering, retrieving, and analyzing of data. It does not require any pre-knowledge ... -
The application of rapid rural appraisal techniques in coastal resources planning: experience in Malampaya Sound, Philippines
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleThe Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) techniques often employed to fast-track the assessments of agricultural and forest resource systems were applied to the coastal resource planning of Malampaya Sound in Palawan Island, western ... -
Ecosystem maturity: towards quantification
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleAn attempt is made to rank 41 steady-state models of aquatic ecosystems on the basis of their maturity. Maturity is quantified using several of Odum's attributes of ecosystem maturity. It is shown that it is possible to ... -
Resource and ecological assessment of Lagonoy Gulf, Philippines (volume 2: technical monograph)
(1995)Type: ReportThe overall objective of this project is to promote the equitable and sustainable use of coastal resources in the Asian region through the development and implementation of integrated coastal management training tools. The ... -
CGIAR aquatic research priorities revisited: a case for a higher priority for reservoir-lake system research
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleThe case presented in this article clearly indicates that reservoir and lake resource systems, reservoirs in the Asian context lakes plus reservoirs in the African context, have been given a lower priority than deserved. -
Is it deforestation or desertification when we do it to the ocean?
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleAnecdotal evidence from 60 marine species suggests a pattern of resource exhaustion rather than sustainable use. There is a reason to believe that biomass in the Atlantic Western Boundary Current Fishery-Grand Banks, ... -
Answering the needs of users of the Centre de Recherches Oceanographiques de Dakar-Thiaroye Documentation Center
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleThe Centre de Recherches Oceanographiques de Dakar-Thiaroye (CRODT) Documentation Center was created in 1972 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. It currently holds 25,000 docu¬ments. Half are ...
