Statistics and sector overviews
Publications
New approaches for the improvement of inland capture fishery statistics in the Mekong Basin
2003
Inland capture fisheries provide a valuable contribution to food security in the Mekong Basin. However, official national estimates of this contribution have consistently been lower than estimates derived from more focused and localized fishery surveys. Thus, inland capture fisheries are undervalued by decision makers and development agencies. The poor state of knowledge on inland fisheries arises from the diverse nature of inland fisheries, that fisheries are often small-scale and dispersed over large areas, that...
Building awareness in aspects of fishery statistics, stock assessment and management
2002
FAO/RAP, 2002. Building Awareness in Aspects of Fishery Statistics, Stock Assessment and Management: Proceedings of the “Regional Training Workshop on the Use of Statistics and Other Information for Stock Assessment”. FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand. RAP Publication 2002/27, 96 pp. The document includes a brief account of the fishery statistics programme undertaken by the FAO Fishery Information, Data and Statistics Unit (FIDI). Catch statistics from the FAO database are provided...
Inland capture fishery statistics of Southeast Asia: Current status and information needs
2002
Coates, D. 2002. Inland capture fishery statistics of Southeast Asia: Current status and information needs. Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission, Bangkok, Thailand. RAP Publication No. 2002/11, 114 p. Inland capture fisheries in Southeast Asia are characterised by great diversity in the range of gears used, types of environments in which they are used and the socially and culturally complex societies within which they operate. This presents unique problems for the collection of inland fisheries statistics. This report...