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No Thumbnail AvailableBook (series)Status of Interactions of Pacific Tuna Fisheries in 1995
Proceeding of the Second FAO Expert Consultation on Interactions of Pacific Tuna Fisheries Shimizu, Japan 23 to 31 January 1995
1996Also available in:
No results found.This publication includes forty papers and two abstracts of papers presented at the Second FAO Expert Consultation on Pacific Tuna Fisheries held in Shimizu, Japan, from 23 to 31 January 1995. The topics of the papers include: · reviews of tuna fisheries interactions and their research including methods for their study, · new methods for studying tuna fisheries interactions and examination of their applicability, · case studies on tuna fisheries interactions, · analyses of tuna fisheri es involved in interactions and their management, and · an overview of FAO’s project that co-organized and co-sponsored the Consultation. A supplement of an indexed bibliography of papers on tuna and billfish tagging, which was printed separately, is also included. The objectives of the Consultation were to: · review and integrate the outcome of the studies on tuna fisheries interactions, · summarize the extent of tuna fisheries interactions and unresolved research problems, and · fo rmulate guidelines for research on tuna fisheries interactions. The understanding of tuna fisheries interactions was enhanced significantly by recent studies. However, the Consultation noted that the number of quantified interactions is still small due primarily to difficulties associated with evaluating such interactions. The papers providing supporting information for the conclusions of the Consultation are presented in this publication. Interactions were found to vary in significance depend ing on the biological characteristics of the species involved, the sizes of fish caught, the local and stock-wide rates of exploitation, and the distance among fisheries. In many of the studies presented, the inadequacy of fisheries data was stressed. In addition, the lack of understanding of movements of the fish being studied was noted in several papers. General qualitative guidelines presented in several discussion papers stressed that specifically-designed studies be undertaken to adequately quantify interactions. Well-designed tagging experiments were thought to provide the most reliable information about interactions. Guidelines for the collection of data, biological and ecosystem research, modelling, and alternative methodologies for studying tuna fisheries interactions are also included. -
ProjectCOPEMED - Artisanal fishery communities in the Mediterranean: two case studies
Pêche artisanale dans la lagune de Nador, Maroc: exploitation et aspects socio-économiquesEvolution of the artisanal fishery in cilento, Italy
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No results found.Artisanal fishery in the Mediterranean region is a very attractive and interesting tradition. Because of its unpredictable operational pattern and its constant adaptation to internal and external phenomena it is difficult to really assess its status over time. The need to improve our knowledge of artisanal fishery and how it is conducted in the Mediterranean has been highlighted on many occasions and, in a way, still remains an ongoing issue. The FAO-COPEMED Project took up the opportu nity to initiate a sub-regional project activity to assess the situation of artisanal fisheries in the eight countries involved in the project (Algeria, France, Italy, Libya, Malta, Morocco, Spain and Tunisia) in order to contribute regionally to an issue which, to our knowledge, is usually treated in a very superficial way and only at national level. The present work illustrates two case studies dealing with small scale fisheries systems in two different and significant areas of the M editerranean sea: the area of Cilento in Italy and Nador Lagoon in Morocco. Even though the offshore industrial or semi-industrial fisheries are the most productive, smallscale coastal fisheries have a much greater social and cultural significance. Mediterranean artisanal fishing is a very variable activity. It encompasses many types of fishing gears and methods. Its resources, shared among various parties, move from one region to another, and the size of the fish catch varies from c ountry to country, as does its economical value. Catches are highly multi-specific and fishing intensities and strategies show very rapid fluctuations in space and over time. The variation of active fishermen and boats by area, sometimes over very short periods of time, is also a significant characteristic of the artisanal fishery sector. -
Book (stand-alone)Small-scale fishery in Southeast Asia: a case study in Southern Thailand 2001
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No results found.Nine out of every ten of the world's 30 million people who make a living directly from fishing live in Asia and some 80 percent of them are small-scale fisherfolk. However, the food and livelihood needs of a growing population are running up against limited fishery resources, which are fast depleting in most coastal regions of Asia. This publication contains the results of a study of small-scale fishery along Thailand's Andaman Sea coast, which accounts for up to 14 percent of the country's tota l fish catch. It uses data from the national marine fishery census together with a field study of socio-economic conditions and fishery practices in six representative coastal villages around the bay of Phan-nga, which spreads across 3000 sq km, including 1900 sq km of mangrove. The study also examines the use and incomes from three types of small-scale fishing gear and uses this information along with socio-geographic data to assess sustainable small-scale fishery management options.
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