 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UN, 1982 (known as UNCLOS)), which includes a call for a maximum sustainable yield (MSY) approach to managing fisheries;  United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UN, 1992a (known as UNCED)), including Chapter 17 of Agenda 21 which highlights a precautionary approach;  United Nations Straddling Fish Stocks Agreement of 1995 (...

Waqf is one of the financial instruments in Islamic economics besides Zakat. Currently, management waqf funds has intensified by Government and institutions because its enormous potential Indonesia. One them Productive Seafood program implemented Global Waqf-ACT. However, studies on productive waqf, especially those that discuss agricultural sector improving fishers' economy, are still minimal....

Coastal fisheries are an important. component of the fisheries sector and rural economy of tropical developing countries in Asia generating food, employment and foreign exchange. In 1994, marine landings of these countries were about 13.3 million t (roughly 16% of world marine landings), most originating from coastal areas. The coastal fishery resources consist dominantly of species with relati...

Amidst overexploited fisheries and further climate related declines projected in tropical fisheries, marine dependent small-scale fishers in Southeast Asia face an uncertain future. Yet, small-scale fishers are seldom explicitly considered in regional fisheries management and their contribution to national fish supply tends to be greatly under-estimated compared to industrial fisheries. Lack of...

INTRODUCTION The Brazilian Amazon covers an area of approximately 5 million square kilometres, 60% of the country. Its 17 million inhabitants make up a population density of 3.35 inhabitants per square kilometre. In Amazonia, fishing is of fundamental economic, social and cultural importance for the region., producing gross revenues of around US$ 200 million (Petrere, Barthem & Magnawita 1992) ...

Current fisheries management is, unfortunately, reactive rather than proactive to changes in fishery characteristics. Furthermore, anglers do not act independently on waterbodies, and thus, fisheries are complex socio-ecological systems. Proactive management of these complex systems necessitates an approach--adaptive fisheries management--that allows learning to occur simultaneously with manage...

Background Hunger and malnutrition are the world’s most devastating problems and are inextricably linked to poverty. In 2010-12, almost 870 million people were chronically undernourished. The challenges governments and international development communities need to address, given a global population that is projected to exceed 9 billion by 2050, much of it in developing countries prone to hunger...

1State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, Collaborative Innovation Center for Genetics and Development,School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China; 2Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 3Center for RNA Systems Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, ...

This article uses a longitudinal survey (1999–2005) of commercial stakeholder organizations (CSOs) to assess the development, strengths and weaknesses of New Zealand’s fisheries co-management over its first six years. After presenting the current characteristics and activities of CSOs, the institutional analysis and development (IAD) Framework is used to examine the regime. Results show a patte...