REPORT to the GOVERNMENT OF BRITISH HONDURAS (BELIZE CITY) on INVESTIGATIONS INTO MARINE FISHERIES, PARTICULARLY SPINY LOBSTER AND SHRIMP RESOURCES
	CONTENTS

Based on the work

of

D. Weber

FAO/TA Marine Fishery Biologist

FAO/UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE) REPORTS ON FISHERIES

This document is Report No.TA 2541 in the series of FAO reports produced under the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Since 1 January 1966, reports produced under the former Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance (EPTA) have appeared in the UNDP(TA) series. The numbering of the reports in the UNDP(TA) series is unbroken and follows consecutively the numbering of the former EPTA series.

Since 1 January 1962, those reports which concerned FAO technical assistance in fisheries have been numbered consecutively in a subseries within the general series.

The present report is the one-hundred-and-forty-seventh report in the fishery subseries: FAO Fish.UNDP(TA) Rep., FE/UNDP(TA) 147.

For bibliographic purposes, this document may be cited as follows:

FAO 1968 Report to the Government of British Honduras (Belize City) on investigations into marine fisheries, particularly spiny lobster and shrimp resources. Based on the work of D. Weber, FAO/TA Marine Fishery Biologist. Rep.FAO/UNDP(TA), (2541):28 p.

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, 1968

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Acknowledgements

1. PROGRAM OF WORK

2. STATUS OF THE FISHING INDUSTRY

Lobster production

Fishing effort
Catch per unit effort
Total catch
Average size of catch

Statistical forms
Molting and spawning

Lobster tagging studies

Tag types
Movement
Growth

Length/weight/maturity relationship

Carapace length/tail weight relationship
Tail length/tail weight relationship
Size at maturity

Shrimp resources

Catch statistics
Incidental catch

Fishery laboratory and research vessel

3. RECOMMENDATIONS

REFERENCES

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