This document gives an overview of the Database for the Inland Water Fishery Resources of Africa (DIFRA). DIFRA was compiled as a tool to aid planning for inland fisheries. The paper includes a history of its development based on the [...]

Women in the project's working area are not actively involved in boat based fishing operations.  Female participation in fish trading is low and appears to be a rather recent development.  Only 15% of the fish traders are females.  The main [...]

The rapidly rising world population is causing both a pressure on land and water space and the need to greatly increase food output. A realistic and practicable way of supplying more food protein is to increase fish production through the [...]

Approximately 20 percent of Malawi is covered by water and its various rivers and lakes are extremely important elements in the economy and nutrition of the country. This bibliography lists the large and varied scientific literature which now exists on [...]

This report collects and collates scientific informations on the productivity, and exploitation of open-water fisheries resources of Bangladesh and makes recommendation for research needs in this sector for sustainable yields. It also provides baseline information on the Inland Fishing Technology presently [...]

Fisheries make an important contribution to the national economy of the USSR. Fish is a traditional food which comprises 20 percent of the total protein consumed by the population, and the government and other political bodies are currently concerned to [...]

Sri Lanka, a continental tropical island of 65,000 km2, is reputed for its ancient irrigation reservoirs, constructed over the last 2000 years. The island, which is devoid of natural lakes has 3 ha of artificially created lentic waters for every [...]

This synopsis consolidates all the available published data on the taxonomy, distribution, biology, growth, migration, population dynamics, fisheries, management and culture of Northern pike; a species which has been exploited and cultured for food since many years in European and [...]

Este trabajo presenta una breve descripción de los cuatro mayores sistemas de ríos con llanura de inundación de América Latina, su fauna íctica y sus pesquerías así como el desarrollo de las cuencas fluviales con respecto a otras industrias (construcción [...]

Present ways of handling Nile perch are chiefly artisanal. Catching and landing by canoes , transfer to fish banda, thereafter distribution to markets and processing sites are all steps in a chain which lacks modern facilities. An exception is the [...]