The Northern Prawn Fishery is one of the most valuable fisheries in Australia with a yearly estimated value of production of about $64mil. Nine prawn species are commercially harvested from the Northern Prawn Fishery with 80% of annual average catch represented by the banana prawn (Fenneropenaeus merguiensis) and the tiger...
From over half a million hectares in the turn of 20th century, mangrove areas in the Philippines have diminished to about 117,000 ha in 1993 and even much less in the turn of the 21st century. Much of such
reduction in mangrove areas has been attributed to their conversion to...