The 2010 Annual Economic Report (AER) on the European Union (EU)
fishing fleet, due for publication in the summer of 2010, will provide the
most comprehensive overview to date on the structure and economic
performance of the EU Member States fishing fleets.
For the first time, the data used to...
A major problem affecting world fisheries today is overcapacity of which
overfishing is both a cause and a consequence. Subsidies are now widely
perceived as an underlying cause of overcapacity, the negative
environmental, social and economic effects of which can be masked by
increasing support from the government. Subsidies that...
In ecosystem-based fishery management, the ecosystem comprises the
natural sub-system and also human components, including user groups,
institutions and the processes of management. Regional Fishery
Management Organizations (RFMOs), particularly those designed to
manage tunas, were not established with an ecosystem view of the pelagic
environment. However, tuna RFMOs have evolved...
The ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) challenges the sustainable
management of resources at an ecosystem level facing human well-being
and environmental health. Here we describe how economic analyses may
fill important knowledge gaps for such a challenge when regarding a
broader multispecies context, e.g. tracking signals of change in ecosystem...
Every fish species is part of a complex ecosystem which competes with
other species for resources. Likewise, the harvesting of fish species often
involves technological interactions which results in catching multiple
species as well as temporal interactions between species as fishermen
allocate their effort across multiple fisheries over the course...
There is increasing concern among fisheries scientists and managers over
the ecosystem effects of fisheries exploitation. This concern has been
motivated by several publications inferring that the structure of marine
ecosystems has been dramatically altered by historical patterns of fishing.
Among the most cited studies is the paper by Pauly...
Aquaculture is one of the most dynamic food-producing subsectors
worldwide. In the Philippines, shrimp monoculture started in the 1980s,
only to collapse less than a decade later due to disease. More recently,
extensive polyculture of fish, shrimp and mud crabs has developed. The
objective of this paper is to analyze...
Aquaculture is an industry regarded as being uniquely placed to reverse
declining supplies from capture fisheries in many developing countries.
There is a growing consensus that this industry offers potential in meeting
key components of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) around the
globe. While drawing analogue from national statistical data and...
This paper examines the impact of community based fish culture in
seasonal floodplains on fish production, consumption, income and food
security of the participating households in Bangladesh. About 30 percent
households of the three project and control floodplains were randomly
selected, from whom data were collected using longitudinal surveys on...
For proper utilization of Tal wetland ecosystem through natural resource
management and for updating production system through the integration of
fish-crop diversity and its proper implications to its farmers level through
modernizing adaptive technologies as well, IT system, a composite
zonewise TOT programmes (use of natural resources, farm demonstrations,
farmers...