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Book (stand-alone)Mangrove guidebook for Southeast Asia 2006
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No results found.Various guidebooks exist for mangroves of Southeast Asia, but all have a limited geographic scope covering only one country. An even more severe limitation of these guidebooks is that they focus almost exclusively on so-called true mangrove species i.e. species that occur in the mangrove habitat only and are not found in other habitats. While this is an approach that is common worldwide, the disadvantage is that many plant species found in the mangrove habitat are not dealt with. Another disadv antage of most existing guidebooks is that they tend to ignore species other than trees and shrubs. This book represents the first attempt at covering all mangrove plant species in Southeast Asia, and aims at providing those involved with the management and conservation of mangroves in Southeast Asia with a guidebook for identifying mangrove plants. At the same time, the book gives a brief introduction to mangroves in general and Southeast Asias mangroves in particular, useful to students and in terested lay persons. Accordingly, the book has been split into two parts: part one deals with the mangrove habitat in Southeast Asia, while part two focuses on the mangrove plants themselves. The core of the book is formed by the skilfully drawn black-and-white drawings of the mangrove plants. These illustrations greatly enhance the usefulness of this book. -
DocumentSurvey of resources in the Indian Ocean and Indonesian area 1971
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No results found.The resources of the tropical ocean derive from a number of separate ecosystems; for the present purpose there are five: the upwelling areas, offshore oceanic areas, coral seas, mangrove swamps, and coastal areas outside upwelling regions; Studies of the oceanic system lead to the conclusion that stocks of the four most valued tunas (yellowfin, bigeye, albacore, and southern bluefin) are fully exploited; other tunas and tuna-like fishes perhaps can be exploited: Spanish mackerel and especially s kipjack, whose estimated production is 100.000 tons; Coral seas are difficult to exploit, but production is likely to be high; there may be tertiary resources of Sardinella or mackerels over the whole coral area; Mangrove swamps are extensive, and their high productivity could be exploited with a variety of fish, shellfish, and crustacean cultures; the swamps need to be investigated for present resources; Upwelling areas and the associated offshore divergences are the most productive; the most p romising area for development is that off Northern Somalia and Southern Arabia, followed by the Malabar Coast and the Indonesian area. A fisheries survey should be mounted to catalogue resources of the three promising areas; surveys of pelagic resources with echo-sounders and purse-seines should be initiated all over the region but particularly in the upwelling areas. -
No Thumbnail AvailableProjectSouth China Sea fisheries development and coordinating programme. Training on assessment of coastal aquaculture potential, Malaysia. Regional 1982
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No results found.The project was planned as a training mission both to assist the Government in developing procedures for assessing coastal aquaculture potential with respect primarily to fishpond culture, and to aid in evaluating the Balik Pulau site in Pinang. The activities and schedule of this project, as specified by the Government, are reproduced in Appendix 1. In addition, at a meeting on 10 November 1981, the Director-General of Fisheries, stated that one of the principal purposes of the programme of the Government was to improve the income of the artisanal fisherman by additionally making him a fish farmer as an integral part of coastal aquaculture development. This goal was fully considered in the study. The coastal fishery of the West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia has been intensive (432 000 tons in 1979), resulting in a declining trend in annual fish landings and also a saturation of fishermen in recent years. Coastal mangrove areas are virtually unused for aquaculture. There are an estima ted 112000 ha in Peninsular Malaysia (Fig. 1) and 540 000 ha in Sabah and Sarawak. In the adjacent Philippines and in Thailand, mangrove swamps are being used extensively for coastal fishpond culture. To determine the potential of aquaculture in mangrove swamps in Malaysia, the Government is negotiating an extensive bilateral pre-feasibility study
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