This document was prepared to be used as a background document to the FAO Guidelines on the Precautionary Approach to Fisheries and Species Introduction (FAO, 1995). It contains a series of scientific papers prepared to provide a comprehensive review and [...]

These guidelines were elaborated by the Technical Consultation on the Precautionary Approach to Capture Fisheries (Including Species Introductions). Starting from Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration (UNCED, 1992), the document proposes a definition of the precautionary approach to fisheries as well [...]

La Consulta Técnica se articuló en cuatro sesiones técnicas que trataron los siguientes temas relacionados con el manejo de la pesca en embalses en América Latina aspectos biológico pesqueros; aspectos del manejo pesquero: grandes embalses  embalses con sistema de manejo intensivo; aspectos económicos y sociales;  aspectos [...]

Presented ot the International Conference on Sustainable contribution of Fisheries to Food Security- Japan - December 1995. 

Recent studies have found that, while Basotho - the people of Lesotho - eat fish if it is available, they lack knowledge about local fishery resources and fishing methods. As a result, the fishery resources of Lesotho's lowland reservoirs are [...]

Se estudió la influencia de las repoblaciones sobre la producción pesquera a partir del análisis de las series históricas de producción y siembra de alevines y de producción de pescado de Cuba en 60 embalses con una historia promedio de [...]

Twenty one species of fish, four species of crustaceans and one mollusc species have been introduced into Zambia. They can be classified into several groups by chronology: introductions during the 1940s and 1950s; the first tilapia introductions (1945–1950); the second [...]

En este trabajo se discuten algunos criterios para la clasificación de los embalses de acuerdo a su tamaño, rendimiento pesquero y grado de explotación. Esto constituye por lo tanto un aporte para la definición de los “pequeños cuerpos de agua” [...]

Stocking of reservoirs is one of the management interventions that can be used to increase fish production. Zimbabwe has around 12 000 man-made reservoirs and many of these have been stocked with fish in the past. Species were selected in [...]

This report provides preliminary information on the biology and ecology of rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, in highland streams of Papua New Guinea. The extent of success of its introduction and its implication on any future introductions of other coldwater fish species [...]