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Book (stand-alone)A short history of industrial fishing in the Pacific islands 2007
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No results found.This short history explores the development of industrial fishing in the 22 countries and territories in the central and western Pacific Ocean. It traces the first substantive industrial fishing which was carried out by the Japanese in the 1920s and 1930s to the development of sashimi freezer longlining by the Japanese and tuna purse-seining by the Americans. Important recent developments in the Pacific islands include the entry of tuna vessels from China into the fishery and the developme nt of domestic longlining in most countries. Besides industrial tuna fishing, which occurs in the waters of all Pacific island countries, the only other significant form of industrial fishing in the Pacific islands region is shrimp trawling in Papua New Guinea. This document concludes with some important lessons learned, namely that government-owned tuna fishing companies are rarely successful and that most industrial-scale opportunities for the foreseeable future are likely to be tun a-related. -
DocumentHistory of the International Poplar Commission (IPC). 1998
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No results found.Paper presented on 17 October 1997 to a satellite meeting of the XI World Forestry Congress on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the International Poplar Commission. The International Poplar Commission (IPC) marks the 50th anniversary of its activities in 1997. This is once more an opportunity to draw up an account of its work, after the last revision made five years ago. -
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Establishment of African Regional Aquaculture Centre
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No results found.Man, while he ‘domesticated’ many animals and plants, left the fish out - the carps and the trouts are relatively very recent attempts. The neglect of fish was perhaps mainly owing to man's unfamiliarity with the watery environment; what is under water is not easily seen as well. Man could commune with his terrestrial cohabitants and make them his pets and beasts of burden. He could watch his land live-stock and easily recognize a sick cow or chicken. Even when an attempt is made to learn how th e fish performed he could not comprehend it easily. The air he breathes is so thin, same as that for the cow and the chicken, whereas the water used for breathing by fish is so heavy and contains so little of oxygen, that man could not feel the “pains” of the fish to extract the life giving gas, which looms as it were as the perennial risk of the denizens of water.
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