In Senegal, fisheries management has long been tried and positive results have been achieved only in fishing villages where the community has taken the initiatives. However, it is necessary for the administration and a research organization to play certain roles in fisheries management for such management to be effective. From...
Farmer-to-farmer extension approach was introduced for small-scale freshwater aquaculture development in the seven provinces of the southern Benin in the course of a technical cooperation project of Japan. Firstly, some relatively active and capable fish farmers were selected and trained together with extension officers of the government to be "core...
Small pelagic fishery is one of the socio-economically important fisheries in Morocco. In 2010, it accounts for more than 80% of the total landing weight, corresponding to approximately 0.17 billion €. Considering this fishery’s large contributions to employment, trade, transportation and processing industry, sustainable development of this fishing sector is...
This study investigates the sustainability of shrimp stock in the trawl fishery in the Tonkin Gulf, Vietnam. It is a small scale and multi species fishery. The Verhulst-Schaefer and Gompertz-Fox surplus production models are applied. There are two shrimp spawning seasons in a year in the Gulf. Therefore, in this...
The Patagonian marine ecosystem is one of the most productive
ecosystems in the world, with important commercial shared/straddling
stocks. One of the highest mobility resources is the Argentine shortfin
squid (Illex argentinus). Its distribution is limited to the area of influence of
the warm-cold waters of sub-Antarctic origin, particularly of...
This video was produced by the Japan International Cooperation Agency to show the fisheries co-management activities recently adopted in Senegal. The structure of the video is as follows: causes of decline of fisheries resources, change of strategy from top-down to bottom-up fisheries management, building consensus among the fishermen with the...
In most of the coastal countries, the fisheries enable to satisfy multiple socio-economic needs such as food safety, public receipts, employment and so on. It is especially true in many coastal developing countries where fisheries constitute a considerable source of food and incomes. However, the strong pressure on the fisheries...
This paper aims to generate insights on the organizational forms within
seafood supply chain and how they can influence the fishing industrys
flexibility and performance. To accomplish this objective, the vertical
organizational structure and strategies developed along the supply chain of
the fishing industry of Yucatan are analyzed as a...