GLOBAL CHARACTERIZATION OF INLAND FISHERY ENHANCEMENTS
AND ASSOCIATED ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS

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FAO Fisheries Circular No.945
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

by

Inland Water Resources and Aquaculture Service
Fishery Resources Division
FAO Fisheries Department

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, 1999

ISSN 0429-9329

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PREPARATION OF THIS DOCUMENT
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1. SUMMARY
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2. INTRODUCTION
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3. METHODS USED TO CHARACTERIZE INLAND FISHERY ENHANCEMENTS
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3.1 Literature search in the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)
3.2 Processing of downloaded search profiles
3.3 Inland Fishery Enhancements Database (IFED): Asia, Oceania, Africa and Latin America

3.3.1 General layout
3.3.2 Main table
3.3.3 References
3.3.4 Species
3.3.5 Countries
3.3.6 Water bodies
3.3.7 Enhancement type
3.3.8 Enhancement purpose
3.3.9 Study type

3.4 Inland Fishery Enhancements Database (IFED): Europe and North America
3.5 FAO Database on Introductions of Aquatic Species (DIAS)
3.6 FAO Hatchery Production Database

4. GLOBAL OVERVIEW OF ENHANCEMENT PRACTICES
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4.1 Asia and Oceania

4.1.1 Inland fishery enhancements
4.1.2 Introductions
4.1.3 Stocking
4.1.4 Other enhancements
4.1.5 Conclusions

4.2 Africa

4.2.1 Inland fishery enhancements
4.2.2 Introductions
4.2.3 Stocking
4.2.4 Other enhancements
4.2.5 Conclusions

4.3 Latin America

4.3.1 Inland fishery enhancements
4.3.2 Introductions
4.3.3 Stocking
4.3.4 Other enhancements
4.3.5 Conclusions

4.4 North America

4.4.1 Inland fishery enhancements
4.4.2 Introductions
4.4.3 Stocking
4.4.4 Conclusions

4.5 Europe

4.5.1 Inland fishery enhancements
4.5.2 Introductions
4.5.3 Stocking
4.5.4 Conclusions

5. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF INLAND FISHERY ENHANCEMENTS
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5.1 Introduction

5.1.1 Background and goal
5.1.2 Search strategy

5.2 Environmental impacts and concomitant prevention, mitigation and rehabilitation measures

5.2.1 Impacts of introductions
5.2.2 Impacts of stocking
5.2.3 Impacts of genetic modification
5.2.4 Impacts of fertilization
5.2.5 Impacts of engineering the environment
5.2.6 Impacts of elimination of unwanted species
5.2.7 Impacts of constituting an artificial fauna
5.2.8 Impacts of modification of waterbodies
5.2.9 Impacts of cage culture and parallel intensification of effort of capture fisheries
5.2.10 Impacts of aquaculture and management as intensive fish ponds

5.3 Status of environmental studies

5.3.1 General studies (post-intervention)
5.3.2 Tools for environmental assessments
5.3.3 Environmental assessments (pre-intervention)

5.4 Technical, administrative, social and economic aspects of environmental impacts
5.5 Constraints in the assessment of environmental impacts
5.6 Recommendations for further desk studies

6. EVALUATION OF THE APPLIED SEARCH METHOD
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6.1 Asia, Oceania, Africa and Latin America
6.2 North America and Europe

7. CONCLUSIONS
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8. RECOMMENDATIONS
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9. REFERENCES
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ANNEX 1: SEARCH PROFILES
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ANNEX 2: METHOD FOR TRANSFER OF DOWNLOADED REFERENCES INTO MS EXCEL SPREADSHEETS
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