Type: Publications

South, southeast and east Asia

Year: 2007

Recognition of the importance of microfinance as a crucial development tool for poverty reduction has increased during the last two decades. The United Nations, in its General Assembly Resolution 52/194, passed on 18 December 1997, noted that in many countries, [...]

Type: Publications

Africa

Year: 2006

In 2003 the pilot project set in train a vast undertaking of rural development and inland fisheries governance which will only come to an end when its full impact becomes apparent after at least 12 years of sustained activities. The [...]

Type: Publications

South, southeast and east Asia

Year: 2006

Fisheries policy in Bangladesh is still trying to get to grips with the major (universal) dilemmas of maximizing benefits from natural resources while, at the same time, ensuring an acceptable degree of equity in distribution of benefits and protecting the [...]

Type: Publications

Central and western Asia

Year: 2006

In 2003 the Government of Georgia requested the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to provide technical assistance for the sustainable development and management of the fishery sector in the country. FAO, through its Technical Cooperation Programme [...]

Type: Publications

Europe, Global

Year: 2006

Fishing methods range from those which require only simple gear such as spears and rakes to the use of ocean-going vessels with enormous trawls or encircling nets. Gill netting, seine netting, electric fishing and angling are probably the most common [...]

Type: Publications

Europe

Year: 2006

This publication is the report of the 2006 session of the Joint European Inland Fisheries Advisory Commission (EIFAC) and International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) Working Group on Eels which was held in Rome from 23 to [...]

Type: Publications

South, southeast and east Asia, Global

Year: 2005

This paper was prepared to serve as background for a workshop on mainstreaming fisheries comanagement, held in Cambodia in August 2005. The paper examines the policy and legislative frameworks for co-management in thirteen countries in Asia and the Pacific, and [...]

Type: Publications

South, southeast and east Asia

Year: 2005

Interactive online document: Aquatic resources derived from rice fields and associated environments often contribute a large share of the animal protein and other nutrients intake of poor households, particularly in Southeast Asia. Unfortunately, although this dietary contribution is self-evident for [...]

Type: Publications

Global

Year: 2005

This volume includes 29 peer-reviewed papers presented at the Fifth Conference on Fish Telemetry held in Europe (Ustica, Italy, 9-13 June 2003). The papers cover a wide range of topics on the application of aquatic telemetry in the field of [...]

Type: Publications

South, southeast and east Asia

Year: 2005

Inland fisheries contribute only about ten percent to global fish production. Asia is the leading producer of inland fish, accounting for over 80 percent of the total production. Until recently, the inland fisheries sector had taken back stage in fisheries [...]