Coastal Resource Management (CRM) are activities that achieve sustainable use and management of valuable resources in coastal areas. This study presents the perceived impact resource interventions implemented by Bureau Fisheries Aquatic Resources (BFAR) under FishCORAL Project Municipality Milagros, Masbate. The respondents members fisherfolk organizations, Bantay Dagat (BD), community members....

INTRODUCTION Fishing is an occupation associated with uneven diet, strain, drunkenness, tobacco use, and deleterious habits. The physical state of laborers on a large scale will also be influenced by conditions at their work site. Oral mucosal lesions can occur as a result of infections, local shock or infuriation, systemic diseases, and uncontrolled usage of tobacco, betel quid, and alcohol. T...

It has become increasingly apparent that widely varying behaviors of organisms (e.g., ontogenetic depth preference, selective tidal stream transport, position maintenance) can significantly influence dispersal and connectivity between nearby populations. However, more common day-to-day behaviors, such as foraging, are often assumed to have little effect on dispersal at larger scales (tens to th...

This study aims to examine the poverty among fisherfolk in Panipahan Village, Pasir Limau Kapas Sub-district. The research method used is qualitative with data collection techniques through interviews and observations. findings indicate that cultural experienced by Village attributed a set of norms lifestyle patterns have become ingrained their mindset worldview. tend perceive income from fishi...

Declining fish catch, conversion of mangroves into fish ponds and overexploitation of coastal resources were rampant among the coastal areas of Philippines. Hence, the national government initiated the implementation of Philippine National Aquasilviculture Program aimed to achieve food security, promote sustainable development of fisheries resources, and reduce poverty incidence among fisherfol...

The UN Declaration on Peasants’ Rights (UNDROP) underscores the need for a coherent interpretation and application of existing international human rights to specific context small-scale fisheries (SSF), including marine continental capture fishing, aquaculture, related preparatory works cultural practices. It complements Food Agriculture Organization (FAO)’s Voluntary Guidelines Securing Sustai...

T work represents the second volume emerging from a collaboration among about two dozen anthropologists and economists that began in 1997. Our goal in this volume is to shed light on the historical emergence of prosocial norms and their relationship to economic growth. By contrast with other primates, how is it that human societies manage to solve problems collectively and entice individuals to...

The Berkeley Nobel Laureate George Akerlof once remarked of his fellow economists that if you showed them something that worked in practice, they would not be satisfied unless it was also shown to work in theory. This insight explains much about the dismal science, including why, as late as 1980, the M I T economist Lester Thurow could magisterially write: “If you look at the countries that are...

Flying foxes are vital in ecological and economic systems but also exceptionally vulnerable to extinction (Fujita & Tuttle, 1991; Vincenot et al., 2017), with hunting for bushmeat one of the most critical threats (Mildenstein 2016). The Sulawesi Fruit Bat, Acerodon celebensis, a flying fox endemic Indonesia's island Sulawesi, is listed as Vulnerable on IUCN RedList, may soon move Endangered if ...