Summary of Planning Constraints and Priorities in African Fisheries (CIFA/85/Symp.1) Planning for Aquaculture in Africa (CIFA/85/Symp.2) The Fisheries management of Eight African Lakes (CIFA/85/Symp.5) The Effects of the Sahelian Drought on the Fishery of the Central Niger Delta (CIFA/85/Symp.7) Community Participation in Integrated Small-scale [...]

Approximately 20 percent of Malawi is covered by water and its various rivers and lakes are extremely important elements in the economy and nutrition of the country. This bibliography lists the large and varied scientific literature which now exists on [...]

Rivers drain all but the most arid areas of the earth through channels that are regu- lated by physical laws that impose on them certain forms. The ideal form is rarely encountered in practice and represents an end point to [...]

This bibliography was prepared following the recommendation made by the member countries of the Commission for Inland Fisheries of Latin America (COPESCAL) at its Third Session (Mexico, DF, 30 November - 6 December 1983) to facilitate the access of research [...]

Este informe recapitula los argumentos para la conservación de los recursos genéticos de los peces y las diversas estrategias para llevarla a cabo tanto en aguas continentales como en el mar. Recapitula la importancia de la diversidad genética, especialmente en [...]

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 [...]

This is a report on African reservoir fisheries in two parts. The first part provides an overview of the perceptions of experienced reservoir fishery biologists and managers about the problems and potentialities of African reservoir fisheries, particularly about information necessary [...]

Information on the taxonomy, distribution, biology, populations, fisheries, fisheries management and culture of the shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum), is compiled, reviewed, and analyzed in the FAO species synopsis style. New information indicates this species exhibits biological and life-cycle differences over [...]

Information on the taxonomy, distribution, biology, populations, fisheries, and fisheries management of the European eel  (Anguilla anguilla), is compiled, reviewed, and analyzed in the FAO species synopsis style. 

Rivers may be conveniently divided into fast-flowing, upland reaches and slow-flowing reaches on the lowlands. Rapids reaches tend to divide into pools and riffles, which alternate along the river channel. The lowland reaches are normally flanked by floodplains, which often [...]