This Handbook is for practitioners working in the social protection or fisheries sectors searching for innovative ways to promote sustainable fisheries and reduce human vulnerability. Amid a global decline...
This chapter is organized as follows: section two provides an overview of the assessment process for the agricultural sector. Section three offers guidance on how to develop the sector overview and pre-disaster...
PROFISH is a partnership programming and funding between the main donors in the fisheries sector, international financial institutions, developed countries, private organizations and international agencies...
Total world fisheries production has increased steadily from 19 million tons in 1950, to 100 million tons in 1989, to 140 million tons in 2004 (excluding aquatic plants). Marine capture fisheries (excluding...
The strategic partnership for a sustainable fisheries investment fund in Sub-Saharan Africa is a World Bank/Global Environment Facility (GEF) initiative approved in November of 2005. It involves a partnership...
The strategic partnership for a sustainable fisheries investment fund in Sub-Saharan Africa is a World Bank/Global Environment Facility (GEF) initiative approved in November of 2005. It involves a partnership...
The purpose of this policy briefs is to ensure effective dissemination of information collected and generated as a result of the World Bank-funded study of good management practice in sustainable fisheries...
As a generalization, over the last half century the focus of fisheries management has been on the biological state of fishery resources. In theory it is now widely accepted that fisheries management needs...
For much of the last half century fisheries managers have grappled with what is needed to achieve effective fisheries governance. It is argued that the factor that determines the success or otherwise of...
A rights-based approach appears to be an important factor in successful fisheries management since it increases the commitment of fishers to the system and allows the resource rent question to be addressed...
Fisheries in the world are reaching a turning point. Many of the traditional most highly valued stocks are fully or overexploited in a biological sense; in economic terms most fisheries employ excessive...
Hydropower and irrigation projects involving reservoirs can displace thousands of people from their traditional lands and deprive them of their livelihoods. Solutions that are technically feasible, sustainable...
Pelagic fishery resources are those found in the upper layers of the sea, and account for about 50 percent of the world's marine catch. Most abundant are the small pelagic species, found in highest concentrations...
Excess capacity in fishing and fish processing characterizes many, if not most, fisheries today. Because the capital and labor employed in fisheries are generally use-specific, their exit is often painfully...
The Symposium on Fishery Resources Management held in Lima, Peru, in June 1992 addressed several aspects of fishery management - theory and practice, the experience of different countries, and current...
This paper proposes a strategy for fisheries development, aimed primarily at the World Bank Group but it is also believed to have relevance to all development institutions concerned with fisheries development...
This report embodies the results of two missions on fisheries and aquaculture research capabilities and needs. The first part deals with a study of India and the second with the ASEAN Region, with particular...
This Working Party Report reviews the research areas of interest for the public and private sectors. However, it places emphasis on areas of direct concern to government organizations. It identifies gaps...
This report contains the results of two missions. One mission deals with the state of fisheries and aquaculture research as well as research needs in four countries in southeastern Africa: Kenya, Malawi...
This Working Group Report examines the critical problems affecting small-scale fisheries research. It first deals with an outline and diagnosis of the different small-scale fishery situations. This is...