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...
In the light of the usual allegation against shrimp farming as an employment displacing activity, this paper tries to examine the role of shrimp farming in generation of employment and income for small scale shrimp farmers in West Bengal, India using primary data collected from 208 traditional and scientific shrimp...
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...
The study aimed to assess the contribution of seaweed farming based on sustainable
livelihood framework using an indicator system formulated at the FAO Experts Workshop on Methods and Indicators held at Nha Trang University in Vietnam last November 2008.
The overall aim of this research project is to determine the socioeconomic impact of a live tilapia gathering and distribution centre on rural and peri-urban fish farmers. The study area is established in the fringes between urban and rural areas of Veracruz City, in Mexico. Previously, both the national and...
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...
Small-scale aquaculture is fundamental to the livelihoods of many of the
rural poor in Asia and Africa. There is growing evidence that in many cases
the poorer people have the greater dependence on aquatic resources,
particularly low-value fish and non-fish aquatic resources. However, in
spite of the benefits, the potential...
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Traditional approaches to fisheries management, which have been singular, species-based and non-sectoral, have failed to protect the world’s fisheries resources. This has resulted in the overexploitation of fish stocks, displacement of fishing fleets and dislocation of fishing communities. The first attempts at international regulation of fisheries were simple, but premised...
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the World Fish Center (ICLARM), and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), are collaborating to incorporate fish into IMPACT, a global model of food supply and demand that estimates market-clearing prices for 28 commodities in 36 regions. Results of the projections to 2020...
In 1998, the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary initiated the “Tortugas 2000” planning process that would lead to the eventual designation (2001) of the largest marine reserve in the US: The Dry Tortugas Ecological Reserve (DTER). This resulting research, targeted commercial fishermen operating in the DTER region, determining the total...
New Zealand marine recreational fisher’s attitudes to their fisheries and fisheries management are discussed in the light of the findings from two studies. The first study, a national telephone survey of more than 600 fishers, investigated why fishers seek to go recreational fishing and their attitudes towards the fisheries management....
Over the past 50 years, most efforts to regulate fishing and conserve our oceans and seas only have had limited success in preventing the on-going problems of over-fishing, degradation of the marine environment, and irreversible loss of marine biodiversity. Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) of the oceans is an approach that is...
For decades, the management of the Dutch flatfish fishery has included a variety of measures including individual transferable quotas (ITQ) and the implementation of a co-management system without succeeding in recovering the fishery to sustainable levels partly because of the multispecies aspect of the fishery with the two main commercial...
Since 2006, French quotas are shared out into annual catch entitlements per producer organizations (PO) according a stable allocation key. On this basis, PO’s have imposed catch shares to their own members but allocation and management rules are heterogeneous between PO’s. The objective of the paper is i) to assess...