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Review of the literature is an essential starting point for any endeavour in GIS, remote sensing, or mapping. Yet, reviews are often incomplete for lack of access to the material, and consequently projects experience durations that are longer and costs that are higher than need be because the accumulated knowledge has not been tapped and taken advantage of. This page sets out to mitigate that problem. It is a gateway to the literature that represents much of the accumulated global experience on using GIS, remote sensing and mapping to solve problems and issues in aquaculture and inland fisheries. Spatial issues addressed most frequently for aquaculture and inland fisheries are listed in two tables in issues section along with the number of literature records currently contained in GISFish databases. Four recent studies available for download in issues section provide background information on GISFish databases.
 
  
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TitleAn agro-ecosystems approach to aquaculture and inland fisheries: fish out of the water?
AuthorMartin van Brakel and Sophie Nguyen-Khoa
Date12 December 2008
Content Language(s)English
Abstract / DescriptionModern fisheries management is strongly based on ecosystem theory, but ecosystem based management concepts in fisheries have proven difficult to operationalize. Yet, inland fisheries and aquaculture management cannot be effective without taking its ecosystem linkages into account. Ecosystem management involves direct manipulation of the habitat and population as well as human activity in order to optimize sustainable returns to humans. The application of an agro-ecosystems approach can operationalize the concept of ecosystem-based management of fisheries and aquaculture, and help its development and implementation across appropriate geographical and socio-economic scales. This agro-ecosystem approach focuses on GIS based spatial analysis with the IDRISI Andes© software package and offers an appropriate method to demarcate system boundaries. We derive such system ‘boundaries’ from time series of environmental data in order to characterize aquaculture and inland fisheries on the basis of their ecosystem linkages. We argue that natural resource management problems do not neatly conform to administrative or political boundaries but instead are contained by socio-economic and ecological boundaries. We conclude that ecosystem management concepts in fisheries and aquaculture should consider ecosystems as distinct social-ecological resource governance units, of which aquaculture and inland fisheries are inseparable components.

Abstract presented at the Fourth International Symposium on GIS/Spatial Analysis in Fishery and Aquatic Sciences in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 25–29 August 2008.

PublisherFishery-Aquatic GIS Research Group
Publication LocationJapan
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Keywords GIS
Spatial Tool GIS
Country Global
Species Common Name
Species Scientific Name
Organism Division (FAO ISSCAAP) Not specified
Culture System Not specified
Water System Not specified
Main Environment Inland
Main Issue Addressed Management of aquaculture together with fisheries
  
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