This publication is part of a collection of three profiles covering nine aquatic resources-dependent villages in the provinces of Stung Treng, Takeo and Siem Reap. The profiles are important because in most, if not all, of the aquatic-resources villages of Cambodia, critical data and information...

Groupers and snappers are important fishery resources of the tropics and subtropics, where their high values have caused most of their stocks to be heavily exploited, some even to the point of collapse. Trends towards heavy demand and decreasing natural supply, which are accelerating in several...

Following the recommendations of earlier investigations reported by Halls and Mustafa (2006), this study reports a final assessment to address the question: ôDoes CBFM bring sustainable benefits to fisher communities? Or in other words ôDoes the CBFM workö? It employs most of the methods...

The aim of the Lake Nasser Project is to integrate social, economic, and ecological factors in the formulation of a management policy for sustainable fish production. The workshop was held to review the present state of knowledge, identify constraints, evaluate existing information and state of...

A wide range of institutional arrangements were practiced in the Community Based Fisheries Management project in phase-1 (1994-1999) and phase-2 (2001-2007). The project documents stated that there were three main fisheries management approaches; fisher-led, community-led and women-led, however...

As a step to address the problems of coastal fisheries in Asia, the WorldFish Center joined forces with fisheries agencies from eight developing Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam) and the Asian Development Bank, to implement...