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The marine artisanal fishery in Ivory Coast: fishing potential

open access: yes, 1983
The marine artisanal fishery in Ivory Coast covers all the continental shelf, with high activities around Abidjan and San-Pedro. Four types of fishing tackles are recorded: purse seines, beach seines, gillnets and lines.
Bouberi, D., Hie Dare, J.P., Konan, J.
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Management Participants Perceive That Structural Barriers, Not Information Needs, Most Impede Adaptation in U.S. Fisheries Management

open access: yesFish and Fisheries, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fisheries are facing increasingly frequent and severe climate change‐related stressors such as marine heatwaves, harmful algal blooms, and species distribution shifts. Many fisheries management bodies have been working to increase the capacity of their regulatory systems to adapt to these new conditions, but progress has been slow and ...
Abigail S. Golden   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Small-scale Fishermen and Risk Preferences

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Using an experimental approach, we investigate the risk preferences of artisanal fishermen in Tanzania waters of Lake Victoria. The experiment concerns pairwise comparisons of hypothetical fishing trips that vary in expected mean and spread of the net ...
Eggert, Hakan, Lokina, Razack B.
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Catch Efficiency in the Chilean Pelagic Fishery: Does size matter ? [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines the determinants of technical efficiency for a sample of 204 industrial vessels operating in the Southern-Central pelagic fishery of Chile during the 1985-95 period.
Sebastian Vergara   +2 more
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Post‐Release Survival of the Pelagic Stingray (Pteroplatytrygon violacea, Bonaparte, 1832) in French Longline Fisheries in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea

open access: yesFisheries Management and Ecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bycatch remains a critical challenge in global fisheries, even when using selective gears such as longlines. In the French longline fishery targeting Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) in the Gulf of Lion, the common pelagic stingray (Pteroplatytrygon violacea) is the primary bycatch species.
Antoine Landreau   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Artisanal Fishers’ Use of Sustainable Fisheries Management Practices in the Jebba Lake Basin, Nigeria

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Extension, 2013
The study attempts to characterise artisanal fishers’ use of sustainable fisheries management practices in the Jebba Lake Basin, Nigeria. Stratified sampling technique was used to select 402 respondents.
G O Nwabeze, A P Erie
doaj   +4 more sources

TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE IN ARTISAN FISHING

open access: yes, 2011
O artigo apresenta e discute saberes pautados pela tradição – compreendidos como saberes construídos ao longo das gerações, transmitidos a partir da oralidade e das experiências do cotidiano - frutos de um conhecimento não-científico que tem por base a observação e as orientações das gerações mais experientes.
openaire   +1 more source

FISHING SKILL IN DEVELOPING COUNTRY FISHERIES: THE KEDAH, MALAYSIA TRAWL FISHERY

open access: yes
Fishing skill is perceived to play a crucial role in catching fish. The question arises for fishery managers as to whether or not there are observable and measurable attributes of the skipper or vessel that can be monitored and regulated to account for ...
Omar, Ishak Haji   +5 more
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Lack of Compliance in Gillnet Fisheries Regulations Increases Risk to a Vulnerable Species

open access: yesFisheries Management and Ecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents an analysis of regulatory compliance in a Brazilian gillnet fishery, based on Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) tracking data. Satellite transmissions records, interpreted as proxies for gillnet haulings events, were analyzed and classified using a neural network to assess the level of compliance of the gillnet fleet.
Rodrigo Claudino dos Santos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Last Tango? Artisanal fishing in Tanga, Tanzania

open access: yes, 1999
The Tanga region along the north-eastern coast of Tanzania is characterized by fringing and patch coral reefs, seagrass beds, mangrove forests, esturaries and embayments.
Beckley, L.E.
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