Fisheries in Merauke: linking fishermen to markets

Mobilizing Markets to Reduce Bycatch in Marine Fisheries

Computerized Linking of Capital Markets - A Viable Approach

Interlinking capital markets has always been an interesting issue since it not only provides more investment opportunities but also results in reduction of the risk of market volatility due to increase in the size of market. However, global and local barriers like different currencies, legal issues, settlement risks and costs prevent such interlink age to take place efficiently. In this paper, ...

Utilizing Fishermen Knowledge and Expertise: Keys to Success for Collaborative Fisheries Research

Collaborative fisheries research provides a mecha­ nism for integrating the unique knowledge, experience, and skills of fishermen and scientists. It is a joint intellectual endeavor that begins with the inception of a project and continues until its final stages, with each group having mutual investment in—and ownership of— the project. Collaborative fisheries research promotes communica­ tion ...

Linking Social and Ecological Systems to Sustain Coral Reef Fisheries

The ecosystem goods and services provided by coral reefs are critical to the social and economic welfare of hundreds of millions of people, overwhelmingly in developing countries [1]. Widespread reef degradation is severely eroding these goods and services, but the socioeconomic factors shaping the ways that societies use coral reefs are poorly understood [2]. We examine relationships between h...

Linking Markets with Forage Quality

To better understand the interaction and importance of laboratory testing and the pricing and marketing of forages, a survey of professional animal nutritionists was conducted Fall, 2011. The purpose was to develop a better understanding of the sum total ‘demand’ factors which determine how forage quality should be measured and linked to markets. This survey showed that nutritionists generally ...