Main fishing gear in Thailand was otter board trawls. More than 70% of the total Thai fishing vessels had been using this fishing gear, as well as push net which was restricted targeting for demersal resources. Due to the 2.5 cm fine mesh size, juvenile economic species had been caught...
Poor selective gears like bottom trawlers are known to induce joint productions ie catch of several categories of fish by targeting one category in particular. Joint productions can be inter-species or intra-species. They can be retained to be sold or discarded most of the time with high mortality rates when...
Trawl cables are wire ropes which corrode under the influence of
seawater depending on fishing habits.
Information about the problem was obtained from the preceeding
work by Robert D. Malloch, and from contacts with the fishermen.
Statistical data about fishing boats and fishing habits on the Pacific
Northwest Coast are...
In 2003, an industry-financed, government-administered buyback of trawl
fishing permits and vessels took place on the US West Coast, resulting in
the retirement of about one-third of the limited-entry trawl fleet. The lack
of cost data in this fishery precludes an analysis of how the buyback has
affected profitability, but...
This paper analyzes the suitability of strong and weak sustainability assessment in the context of fisheries management. This topic is a main stream issue in the field of Ecological Economics, but its application to fisheries is rather ambiguous, although fisheries have been the focus of many pioneering studies related to...
Ben Tre, located on the Tien Delta Triangle--with a coastline of 65 km and the 20,000 km2
Exclusive Economic Zone--is one of the Mekong Delta’s 13 provinces. Given both its vast
access to coastline and the EEZ, fisheries is one of the Ben Tre’s key economic sectors. This
study specifies...
In the mid-90s the Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organisation
(CSIRO) funded a social science (economics) research trip to the Gulf of
Carpentaria. The objective of the trip was to observe and model
commercial fishing patterns in the NPF, and develop an all encompassing
model for describing fleet dynamics in the...