The four papers presented in this publication address major fishery issues in relation to dams as identified by the World Commission on Dams (WCD) and FAO for the purpose of WCD's global review on "Dams and Development". Characteristics of river [...]

FAO, Rapport sur les pêches no 681, Supplément, FIRI/R681 Suppl. (Fr). Le Symposium sur la gestion des pêches intérieures et l'environnement aquatique: effets de la gestion des pêches sur les écosystèmes en eau douce, s'est tenu à Windermere (Royaume-Uni), du 12 au [...]

Fisheries in inland waters have long provided an important source of food for mankind. With the objective to make the use of the resources sustainable and to improve food security and livelihoods, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United [...]

FAO Fisheries Circular. No. 945. Rome, FAO. 1999. 89p. This paper summarizes the results of an effort to characterize inland fishery enhancements on a global scale. The basis for the characterization was an automated literature search in the Aquatic Sciences and [...]

Inland fishery enhancements. Papers presented at the FAO/DFID Expert Consultation on Inland Fishery Enhancements. Dhaka, Bangladesh, 7–11 April 1997. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper. No. 374. Rome, FAO. 1998. 463p. This document brings together the twenty-eight papers presented at the Expert Consultation on [...]

This manual is a compilation of the methodologies required for assessment of the needs for rehabilitation, the habitat requirements of fish and the various techniques for rehabilitating water courses. Value can be added to projects for restoring the aesthetic appeal [...]

European Inland Fisheries Advisory Commission. Guidelines for stocking coregonids. EIFAC Occasional Paper. No. 31.  These guidelines deal with three species: vendace (Coregonus albula), whitefish (C. lavaretus L. s.l.) and peled (C. peled). The transfer of whitefish and vendace has been practised for centuries and considerably [...]

This Symposium emphasized the importance of man-made habitat changes as a major factor which can have an adverse effect on fish stocks. Various impacts were considered, such as lake regulation, land drainage, gravel extraction, and canalisation.The most common impact of [...]

The first edition of this handbook contained a review of the literature concerned with the utilization of fresh-water aquatic plants going as far back as 1917. The objective was to assemble the ideas and experimental results of those authors and [...]