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Margarita Lizárraga Medal Award 2008-2009
Nominations are now invited for the Margarita Lizárraga Award for the biennium 2008-2009. The Award pays tribute to Ms Margarita Lizárraga, a Mexican national and an officer in the Fisheries Department at the time [more...]
nems_imageAfrican Water Resource Database (AWRD) available on DVD and CD-ROM
The African Water Resource Database (AWRD) -- a set of data and custom-designed tools, combined in a geographic information system (GIS) analytical framework aimed at facilitating responsible inland aquatic resource [more...]
Fisheries management: status and challenges -- by Ichiro Nomura, Assistant Director-General, ...
With fish providing at least 20% of animal protein intake for at least 1.5 billion people worldwide, it is critical that fisheries management is both efficient and effective. The idea of inexhaustable fisheries must [more...]