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The India MPA Workshop Proceedings. Social Dimensions of Marine Protected Areas Implementation in India: do Fishing Communities Benefit? 21-22 January 2009, IMAGE Auditorium, Chennai, India [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In the current context of natural resource management, marine protected areas (MPAs) are being widely propagated as an important tool for the conservation of marine and fisheries resources.

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Understanding sustainable seafood consumption behavior: an examination of the Ocean Wise (OW) initiative in British Columbia

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2016
Sustainable seafood labeling programs have been developed as one of several efforts to address the current dire trends in fish stocks. The Ocean Wise (OW) program, started at the Vancouver Aquarium (Canada), works with restaurateurs and suppliers to ...
Katherine M. Dolmage   +2 more
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The coastal environmental profile of Brunei Darussalam: resource assessment and management issues [PDF]

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Coastal zone management, Resource development, Coastal zone, Environmental profile, Brunei Darussalam, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Anonymous   +2 more
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Linking public perceptions of socioeconmic change and marine resource management in rural Maine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Rural coastal regions across the United States are coping with dramatic social and environmental changes. Historically, these areas relied heavily on fishing and marine commerce and these economic activities defined the character of coastal communities.
Safford, Thomas
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Robust Management, Risk and the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Biodiversity has not been a prominent consideration in conventional fishery management, even though biological concerns and the concept of "sustainability" are long-established in fisheries. This is because traditionally, the focus of management has been
Anthony Charles
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Marine fisheries monitoring programmes in South Africa

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Science, 2009
South Africa was an early leader in multidisciplinary studies of marine resources, particularly with the Benguela Ecology Programme in the 1980s and 1990s and catch records are available for some species dating back more than a century.
L. Hutchings   +13 more
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Co-managing shared waters: a coastal governance experience of Western Visayas Region, Philippines [PDF]

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Coastal ecosystems in the Philippines are under stress from the combined effects of human overexploitation and habitat destruction. In recent years, the concept of an integrated approach to coastal resource management has been adopted to address this ...
Espectato, L.N.
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Principles for Best Practice For Community-Based Resource Management (CBRM) In Solomon Islands [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This report is found on pgs173-208 of the FAO publication "Socio-economic indicators in integrated coastal zone and community-based fisheries management. Case studies from the Caribbean". During the fiscal year 2002/03, the CRFM Secretariat requested FAO'
Terrence Phillips
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