Type: Publications

Europe, Global

Year: 2002

The Symposium on Inland Fisheries Management and the Aquatic Environment: The effects of fisheries management on freshwater ecosystems was held in Windermere, United Kingdom, from 12 to 15 June 2002, in concomitance with the Twenty-second Session of the European Inland [...]

Type: Publications

Global

Year: 2002

Fisheries in inland waters have long provided an important source of food for mankind. With the objective to make the use of the resources sustainable and to improve food security and livelihoods, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United [...]

Type: Publications

South, southeast and east Asia

Year: 2002

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 [...]

Type: Publications

Global

Year: 2002

Many fish species undertake more or less extended migrations as part of their basic behaviour. Amongst the best known examples in Europe are salmon (Salmo salar) and sturgeon (Acipenser sturio), which often swim several thousands of kilometres when returning from the sea [...]

Type: Publications

South, southeast and east Asia

Year: 2001

The Asia Diagnostic Guide to Aquatic Animal Diseases or 'Asia Diagnostic Guide' is a comprehensive, up-datable diagnostic guide for the pathogens and diseases listed in the NACA/FAO/OIE Quarterly Aquatic Animal Disease Reporting System including a number of other diseases which [...]

Type: Publications

South, southeast and east Asia

Year: 2000

Gillnet fishing makes up a substantial part of the inland fisheries in Cambodia, which are important to food security and to the national economy. The Tonle Sap ecosystem is one of the most productive in the world. Although little studied, [...]

Type: Publications

Global

Year: 2000

Thirteen major chapters deal with the following: aquatic macrophytes as fish habitat (spawning, nesting, nursery and feeding habitat, and the significance of structural complexity and density of aquatic macrophytes for fish); fish and other vertebrates of fishery significance that feed [...]

Type: Publications

South and central America

Year: 1999

Los grandes bagres migratorios son objetos de pesca artesanal en casi toda la cuenca amazónica y de pesca industrial en el estuario del Amazonas. La pesca industrial, utiliza embarcaciones de hasta 50 toneladas de capacidad de bodega, desembarca las capturas [...]

Type: Publications

South and central America

Year: 1999

Se presenta la pesquería de grandes bagres en la Amazonía Peruana y su manejo.

Type: Publications

Africa

Year: 1999

1) This report presents results of the joint AfDB/FAO/FISHCODE Mission to Lake Tanganyika, which was carried out between March and July 2000, and involved technical consultations at FAO Headquarters in Rome as well as extensive field visits to the Lake [...]