Publications
Type: Publications
Africa
Year: 2007
This document is the final report of the Regional Stakeholders’ Workshop on Fishing Effort and Capacity on Lake Victoria. The main purpose of the workshop was to share, recognize and include the national stakeholders’ perspectives and concerns that had been [...]
Type: Publications
Central and western Asia
Year: 2007
Annual fish production in the Kyrgyz Republic (or Kyrgyzstan) has fallen significantly since independence in 1991. In 1991, fish production (inland and aquaculture) was estimated at more than 1 361 tonnes. By 2006, it had decreased to 71 tonnes. In [...]
Type: Publications
Russian Federation, Central and western Asia
Year: 2007
At the FAO and the World Bank workshop in April 2008 where all the five Caspian countries participated it was agreed: “that a workshop should be held under the TCP Project with the following objectives: (i) identify, develop and test [...]
Type: Publications
South, southeast and east Asia
Year: 2007
Fisheries play a significant role in Thailand in terms of sustaining food security and contributing to the local and national economies. The consumption of fish in Thailand (per person) is double that of the world average, highlighting the general preference [...]
Type: Publications
Europe
Year: 2007
The symposium objectives were:1) To review the wide range of socio-economic and ecological interactions between fisheries and aquaculture and the roles of various stakeholders with respect to these interactions.2) To identify where future research should focus and propose measures to [...]
Type: Publications
South, southeast and east Asia
Year: 2007
Recognition of the importance of microfinance as a crucial development tool for poverty reduction has increased during the last two decades. The United Nations, in its General Assembly Resolution 52/194, passed on 18 December 1997, noted that in many countries, [...]
Type: Publications
Africa
Year: 2006
In 2003 the pilot project set in train a vast undertaking of rural development and inland fisheries governance which will only come to an end when its full impact becomes apparent after at least 12 years of sustained activities. The [...]
Type: Publications
South, southeast and east Asia
Year: 2006
Fisheries policy in Bangladesh is still trying to get to grips with the major (universal) dilemmas of maximizing benefits from natural resources while, at the same time, ensuring an acceptable degree of equity in distribution of benefits and protecting the [...]
Type: Publications
Central and western Asia
Year: 2006
In 2003 the Government of Georgia requested the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to provide technical assistance for the sustainable development and management of the fishery sector in the country. FAO, through its Technical Cooperation Programme [...]
Type: Publications
Europe, Global
Year: 2006
Fishing methods range from those which require only simple gear such as spears and rakes to the use of ocean-going vessels with enormous trawls or encircling nets. Gill netting, seine netting, electric fishing and angling are probably the most common [...]