The importance of environmental protection and conservation measures has been increasingly recognized during the past two decades. It is now generally accepted that economic development strategies must be compatible with environmental goals. This requires the incorporation of environmental dimensions into [...]

This document summarizes the findings of the CIFA Working Party on Pollution and Fisheries. It gives advice on strategies for aquatic pollution control, including the establishment of environmental quality standards, emphasizing the use of risk assessment methodologies for arriving at [...]

Le présent rapport porte sur l'intensification de la gestion des petits plans d'eau pour la pêche; il se concentre tout particulièrement sur les pays francophones d'Afrique. Le rapport passe en revue différents types de petits plans d'eau et analyse les [...]

This publication reviews the potential for fisheries production from irrigation canals. It deals with the subject under the following major headings: engineering aspects of irrigation systems; factors limiting fish production in canals; weed growth and associated problems in irrigation canals. [...]

This technical paper summarizes data available in Latin America on structures designed to help fish surmount the obstacles which hinder their migrations and which are due to dam construction. It analyses installation designs, modes of operation and efficiency and discusses [...]

This technical paper provides information on provisions, made in the USSR, to facilitate fish migration under conditions of modified river flow resulting from engineering construction (e.g. dams) and water abstraction. The fish-pass and fish protection structures described utilise a knowledge [...]

The purpose of this study is to call attention to satellite remote sensing as a rapid, costeffective means to provide much of the basic information required to plan for the development and management of small water bodies for fisheries and [...]

Inland fisheries in multiple use of resources. This technical paper presents three case studies of inland fisheries in the context of a multiple-use of land and water resources in the humid tropics of Asia. Two of the three river basins are [...]

New Reservoirs in Africa, 1980–2000 Africa has one-third of the world's hydropower potential, but only 5 percent of it is developed. The growth of total reservoir surface area in Africa in each of the remaining decades to the year 2000 will [...]

A series of guidelines is presented which is intended to aid dam design and operating engineers to manipulate the artificial aquatic environments upstream and downstream so as to optimize fish production. The guidelines are based on reviews and in some [...]