With the decline in fishery production and progress of the aging of fishermen, facilities that enable safe fishing activities for the elderly and systematic production have been called for in the fishing industry in recent years. While high-quality fukuro funori (Gloiopeltis furcata) produced in the coastal waters off Kamiiso Town,...
An integrated coastal management plan has become an increasingly important tool to accommodate coastal resource utilization that is multisectoral in nature. The idea of adopting this strategy comes from the fact that coastal resources consist of various valuable assets that should be utilized in a sustainable fashion. This paper emphasizes...
Considering the operational needs on fisheries management, this research was aimed for understanding the adjustment processes of small-scaled fishing gear dynamic by measuring and analysing the seasonal fishing gear dynamic including seasonal fishing pattern and fishing gear interaction. To understand the fishermen's adaptation of their fishing effort from any changes...
The community based for the fisheries resources management project (CO-FISH-Project) in Bengkalis is a coastal development project to improve the living standard of coastal community in this region. Over all project activities including resources and ecology assessments, social economy assessment, establishment of suitable fisheries resources management, community based fisheries resources...
Women in fishing communities must work very hard on fishing and marketing activities together with housekeeping and child-care. However, their social and economic status is vulnerable. Women are often excluded from any process of decision-making as regards fisheries management and community development. They are not usually allowed to join the...
Food processors are interested not only to increase the safety of their products but also to reduce losses associated with a foodborne illness problem. Irradiating food products provides one means of addressing the food borne illness issue by significantly reducing the presence of food borne bacteria and diseases. The objective...
Bangladesh, basically a floodplain consisting of extremely low and flat land, is endowed with enormous inland fishery resources that contribute a significant part of freshwater fish production. Yet only 8% of the catchment of the rivers that create this floodplain is in Bangladesh. The fisheries sector accounts for 10% of...
Since proposing “Sustainable development” defined by World Commission on Environment and Development, many organizations (governments, industries and NGOs) have sought and tried sustainable way of shrimp aquaculture. As the mangrove was destroyed on a large scale, they have tackled to mangrove reforestation around the same time. Destruction of the coast...
This paper presents a introduction of the developed system by that fisherman share various information. This system is characterized by the application of data mining methods and the introduction of IC tags. We compute the predict price formula by data mining of product value. The predict price of each port...
China is a large developing country with 1.28 billion of population, per capita’s income is continually increasing; the population is also increasing, so that the demand for human eatable consumption of fishery products is increasing significantly. During 1995 to 2001, the average annually increasing rate of per capita’s GDP was...
The Dominican Republic shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. The country has a total area of 48,442 km², a narrow insular shelf of 9,484 km² and an EEZ of approximately 238,000 km². Around 10,000 fishers with a fleet of 3,750 boats, operate from the 1,575 km of coastline to...
As the fishery product demand is rising now, the fishery activities are also increasing. However, some of them are done in irresponsible way, like using the fishing gears that able to destroy the environment. This paper is aimed to review sasi laut, as an indigenous knowledge conducted in some villages...
Spatial bio-economic models are becoming increasingly important in the attempt to offer ever more dependable advice to fisheries managers. The main reason for this is the escalating interest in marine protected areas and more precisely fishing exclusion zones. As such the key issue of fishing effort dynamics needs to be...
This paper examines the roles of non-Government Organizations (NGOs) in improving the status of open water fisheries resources in Bangladesh. NGOs are traditionally involved mostly in micro-credit operations as they are highly experienced and skilled in this area, but they have not been working for improving the natural resources management...
The fisheries sector is an important contributor to the Indonesian economy in terms of protein supply, employment and income generation. Average per capita of fish consumption was 18,00 kg in 1990 and 22,84 kg in 2002. In the last 13 years, the dietary life of Indonesian people mainly consist of...
An intensive case study was undertaken at the farm fisheries from during wet months under NAZ of Indian subtropics for characterization and integrated utilization of Tal wetland ecosystem through pisciculture [Live (magur - Clarias batrachus & singi - Heteropneustes fossilis) and sweet water fishes (rohu - Labeo rohita & Katla...
Traditionally, fish has been considered as an item for direct or indirect human use (food, fertilizer, fishmeal and so on). Recently increasing number of studies on anadromous salmon in North America and Japan, however, suggest that fish could also support biodiversity. Marine-derived nutrients (MDN) are important contributors to maintain or...
The paper documents the discrepancy between prices of permanent quotas traded directly between fishing firms and implicit price of quotas as reflected in the price of fishing firms that are publicly traded. An overview of earlier attempts to explain the discrepancy is given. It is suggested that priceformation in market...
The nations of the world confront complex challenges in managing fisheries resources in the 21st century. While attention focuses on the need for new institutional ideas, designing and implementing effect governance may be imperiled by inadequate investment in the human capital needed to lead, innovate, and manage. Economics, which integrates...
The sandfish catch in the coastal waters off Akita Prefecture has fluctuated largely over the last 40 years. It began to decrease in the middle 1970s, and in 1991 it heavily depleted by 70 tons, which corresponds to less than 1% of the catch in the 1960s. The Fisheries Cooperative...
The strategic direction of fisheries management in New Zealand is changing from merely ensuring sustainability to enabling New Zealanders to maximize the value they obtain from the sustainable use of fisheries resources and protection of the aquatic environment. Allocating rights and responsibilities is crucial to achieving this goal of maximizing...
In the Philippines as elsewhere in Asia, working children in the fisheries sector is pervasive yet tends to be invisible. Their exclusion in the fisheries development equation is perpetrated by public ignorance and apathy. Aimed at increasing public awareness and understanding of this phenomenon, this study on the girl- and...
Fishermen of Akita prefecture of Japan did the prohibition of sandfish fishery for three years independently. After cancel of a ban the coastal fishermen and the offshore fishermen carried out amount management of sandfish cooperated since 1995. This is first example of cooperative amount management, by coastal fishermen and offshore...
This paper outlines the process and impact of a phased introduction of cost recovery on the Victorian wild and aquaculture sectors and the framework for tracking and delivering data outputs to a co-management fisheries management structure. In order to determine whether efficient and effective development and use of fisheries resources...
Foreign investment in the sub-sector of fisheries in Indonesia was begun in the early 1970s. Most part of the money was invested for fish capture by providing fishing boat and its equipments. Few if any were invested for fish processing industries and marketing. The result was small-scale fishing unit which...
It is generally recognised that market-based instruments have a strong role to play in improving the efficiency of fisheries management. This belief was strongly reinforced at the 2002 IIFET Conference, where the use of ITQ systems was extensively discussed. While ITQ systems are commonly referred to as “rights-based management” (RBM),...
Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing activities are a threat for both the marine environment and society. By undermining effective management systems, IUU fishing activities not only generate harmful effects on economic and social welfare, but also reduce the incentives to comply with rules. The issue of IUU fishing has...
In the Philippines, the current licensing policy for commercial fishing does not significantly contribute to the general goals of fisheries management. It is a failure as a monitoring tool as evidenced by the absence of a comprehensive information system on fish catches, effort and area of operation. Fisheries licensing does...
Approximately 90 per cent of total catches in northern Sulawesi are pelagic fishes. About two-third of them are large pelagic fish, such as tunas (Katsuwonus, Thunnus, Euthynnus). However the National Assessment Stock Commission reported that availability of the large pelagic fishes in Sulawesi and Maluku Sea is just about one-third...
The small to medium-scale tuna longline industry targets the fresh chilled sashimi markets. This fishery is seen as the major avenue for the development of the domestic tuna industry in the Pacific Islands. The capital and technology requirements for the longline industry are relatively less compared to the purse seine...
The scope for fishing firms operating in an output controlled fishery, with tradable rights, and facing world prices, to augment profit is limited inter alia to a search for alternative input configurations that lower harvesting costs. This paper provides evidence of technical change in the New Zealand rock lobster fishery....
In the last three decades coastal fishery has created employment, provided a supply of good quality animal protein for Thai people. The fishery resources of Thailand are treated as common property, anyone can take benefit from these resources. They are, therefore, heavily exploited by fishers who employ various types of...
The new world trading order has introduced major liberalization initiatives for developing country fish producers. It has on the other hand raised non-tariff barriers, such as food safety standards. Non-tariff barriers will profoundly shape the sharing of benefits and costs of rising global fish trade. The potential impacts of these...
The structure of global supply and demand for fish has changed dramatically over the past few decades. Traditional marine fisheries increased and reached its peak in the 1990s, while aquaculture has expanded rapidly since the 1970s, making it one of the fastest growing sectors in all of agriculture. Fish has...
People’s participation in development efforts is to create sense of awareness and involvement, increase level of aspiration, and mobilize local resources for productive purposes. The process whereby people learn to take charge on their own lives and solve their own problems is the essence of development (Burkey, 1993). Many programs...
Resource management under Individual Transferable Quota System (ITQ’s) is similar to that of Total Allowable Catch system. It, however, is said that the former is more difficult than the latter. In this paper, by analysing the case of the New Zealand’s ITQ’s during Fiscal Year 1991 and 2001, the current...
In recent years, considerable attention has been given to the effects of removing trade restrictions on natural resource utilization and on poverty, especially in developing countries. Our paper adds to the growing body of conceptual work to show conditions under which a developing country that, in isolation, is unable to...
The project titled “Aquaculture Development in Northern Uplands” (VIE/98/009/01/NEX) stressed on strengthening an extension network and improvement of seed production and delivery system among the target groups at the remote area. Moreover, it gave a high priority to gender education and women's involvement in all activities. The project was implemented...
Participatory Fisheries Management (PFM) was introduced in fisheries management in Malawi in 1993 with Lake Malombe as a pilot site. After almost 10 years of implementation, the program has registered some positive achievements however some problems have surfaced that need to be addressed. Although the Fisheries Act was revised in...
The Japanese tuna fisheries was transformed into an importing industry after the middle of the 1990s because of competition from Chinese Taipei. The Japanese distant water tuna longline fisheries carried out a "20% reduction in the number of fishing vessels (Gensen) without mutual compensation" in 1998 in order to implement...
Swimming blue crab fishery is a mainstay of small-scale fishers in Sikao District. Two fishing gears are mainly employed, i.e., crab gill net (CGN) and crab trap (CT). The socio-economic conditions of the fishers are varied to fishing ground, type of fishing gear and marketing. The average total cost of...
Japan imported 35.44 million tons of fishery products in 2000, about 5 times more than in 1975, when imports overtook exports. This increase over the past 25 years is due to the following factors. On the demand side: 1) Increased imports of fodder driven by growth in domestic fish culture;...
As fisheries resources in the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea and the Japan Sea have the tendency to decrease, the purpose of this study is to identify the problems of the co-management by comparing the Total Allowable Catch (TAC) system between Japan and the Republic of Korea (Korea) in...
The Spanish market is the most important market for hake and hake has been for many years the demersal fish most captured in Spain. To the traditional product differentiation due to size, gear and presentation form (fresh, frozen and frozen fillets), a new differentiation can be performed regarding the hake...
Nigerian aquaculture industry is fairly well developed and ranks second in Africa. It has low production levels compared with the country's aquaculture production potentials. Aquaculture production in 2001 was 47,000 tonnes contributing 9.92% of total fisheries production. If aquaculture production is to play its expected role in economic development of...
The fisheries sub-sector in Nigeria accounts for about 40% of animal protein in the diet and it contributed 4.74% of the agricultural share of the nation's GDP in 2003. Recently, demand for fish products has doubled as other sources of animal protein have become expensive due to pressure by the...
A bioeconomic model allowing different degrees of harvesting closures for two sub-stocks consisting of mature and immature fish is presented. Hence the model opens for partial closures of fisheries on both sub-stocks. Migration between the two sub-stocks is defined as recruitment of the young to the mature sub-stock, and egg...
The rapid increase in global aquaculture production since the early nineties has increased the demand for fishmeal as an ingredient in aquafeed. This increase has been hypothesized as the source of disruption in the fishmeal market by researchers such as Delgado et al. In this paper we evaluate whether or...
Governments have a responsibility to protect their aquatic aquaculture environment from exotic disease incursion. A primary tool on discovering introduced disease is the use compulsory destruction applied by the veterinary arm of government. While the country's aquatic environment gains a public good benefit from this step, the impacted business is...
The paper argues that efficiency in regulating fishery resources is inversely proportional to number of management levels involved, distance of each level from the industry intended to be regulated, while gear and species play an important role. Among possible examples buy back programs are proposed, but other examples can be...