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Book (stand-alone)Interactive mechanisms for small-scale fisheries management: Report of the regional consultation 2002
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No results found.This document is a report of the proceedings and compilation of the papers presented at the regional consultation on interactive mechanisms for small-scale fisheries management, which was held in Bangkok, Thailand in November 2001. The meeting identifies constraints and responsibilities in decentralized small-scale fisheries management and offers practical solutions to the social, economic, environmental and legal constraints to local fisheries management. The fisheries sector has grown dramatic ally in Asia over the past three decades and the region is now a main supplier to the global fish market. However, the impressive growth has been accompanied by serious challenges in the form of over-exploitation of coastal resources. Country papers included in the publication examine national experiences in small-scale fisheries management in Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam. Separate papers provide regional perspectives on the issue while ex perience papers report on the working of small-scale fisheries management projects in the region. -
Book (stand-alone)Fisheries of the Pacific Islands: Regional and national information 2011
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No results found.The Pacific Island region consists of fourteen independent countries and eight territories located in the western and central Pacific Ocean. These comprise about 200 high islands and some 2500 low islands and atolls. Coastal fishing is of fundamental importance in the Pacific Islands. Much of the region's nutrition, welfare, culture, employment, and recreation are based on the living resources in the zone between the shoreline and the outer reefs. The continuation of current lifestyles, th e opportunities for future development and food security are all highly dependent on coastal fisheries resources. Although dwarfed in both volume and value by the offshore tuna fisheries, the Pacific Island fisheries that are based on coastal resources provide most of the non-imported fish supplies to the region. Coastal fisheries harvest a very diverse range of finfish, invertebrates and algae. Unlike the tuna fishery, virtually all the coastal catch is undertaken by Pacific Island ers themselves, with very little access by foreign fishing vessels. This publication presents information on coastal and offshore fisheries in the region. The information is broken down into resource categories, the major types of fishing, the important species, the status of those resources, and the fisheries management that occurs. The book also provides supplementary sectoral and governance related information on the fisheries in the 14 independent Pacific Island countries. -
Book (series)The use of students in surveying susbistence fisheries - a Pacific island case study. 2000
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No results found.This study tests the quality of subsistence fishery data returned by students in a field trial of a student census. 112 fourteen to eighteen year old students from one rural school on Upolus East Coast, Samoa, participated in the study. The students were all drawn from the second and third but last classes of the Samoan secondary education system (years 11and 12). Students were given a logbook containing one questionnaire on household specifics (socio-economic data), and seven daily log sheets, into which household seafood consumption, and fishing trip and catch specifics were recorded. Students recorded information for one week in the last full calendar week of August 1999. A household survey and a creel census were carried out in parallel, to serve as validating surveys, against which the data collected by the students were compared. It was found that there was weak overlap between socio-economic data collected by the students and data collected by the validating surveys, with studen ts reporting generally inflated values across the range of items sampled. It appears that this was not due to poor performance of students recording the information, but is likely to be due to the fact that the selected age group in this study does not embody a representative cross-section of the rural community (specifically in terms of household economics). Only 29 % of the logbook sections recording daily fishing activity (catch and trip information) were answered satisfactorily. This was in part attributed to the complexity of the daily log sheets and the length of the exercise. The pool of logbooks which had been completed satisfactorily however, yielded good results which closely matched indicators rendered by the validating surveys.
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