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Abstract
Many fishery biologists and policy makers involved in inland fisheries
management and planning are unaware of GIS technology and its potential
for fisheries planning and management. The FAO Inland Water Resources
and Aquaculture Service (FIRI) has been active for the last 19 years in
promoting the use of GIS and remote sensing in fisheries and aquaculture.
Promotional activities have been carried out through training, projects,
field missions, and oral presentations and publications. However, a manual
to use along with GIS software for the fisheries biologists in the field
explaining GIS in a way that is understandable to non-GIS users had not
been produced until now. This manual was written to overcome this knowledge-gap,
it is a “do-it-yourself” manual giving a short introduction
to GIS software and its applications in fishery science.
The overall objective of this manual is to encourage fishery managers
to use this tool (GIS) to foster the sustainable use of natural resources.
The manual is aimed at fisheries biologists, aquatic resource managers
and decision makers in developing countries who have no knowledge about
GIS. The manual was written for use with ESRI’s ArcView 3.x and Spatial
Analyst software.
There are five main sections in the manual:
· GIS concepts and functions and key
tools provided by ArcView 3.x,
· Geographic coordinate system and map
projections,
· Raster data and analysis,
· Regression analysis, and
· Application case studies.
All sections are accompanied by exercises that have been designed to
illustrate key applications of GIS in inland and marine fisheries management.
Also, a custom-designed ArcView grid regression extension is included
to show the integration of GIS with surplus production models.
At the end of the training with this manual, the reader should be able
to: apply learned principles and GIS to their own professional situation,
perform analyses on their own data, be aware of the vast possibilities
that GIS can provide and be able to communicate with GIS expert counterparts.
The manual is useful for a broad range of fishery applications. However,
this manual by no means covers all possibilities of GIS, it merely touches
upon some of the most important features for fisheries management and
planning.
FAO. 2003. Geographic Information Systems in fisheries management
and planning. Technical manual, by G. de Graaf, F.J.B. Marttin,
J. Aguilar-Manjarrez & J. Jenness. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper No.
449. Rome. 162p.
Distribution:
FAO Members and associate members
FAO Fisheries Department
FAO Fisheries officers in FAO Regional and Subregional Offices
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