Vietnam’s coastal waters feature high bio-diversity and rich fishery resources. The selected study site, Nha Phu Lagoon is characterized by massive degradation of coastal fishery resources. As a result rural livelihoods in coastal communities are threatened. Since households in these communities not only depend on coastal resources but also have various other forms of income outside the fishery...

Ocean and coastal ecosystems provide critical fisheries, coastal protection, and cultural benefits to communities worldwide, but these services are diminishing due to local and global threats. In response, place-based strategies involve communities and resource users in management have proliferated. Here, we present a transferable community-based approach to assess the social and ecological fac...

The Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act of 2006 (MSRA) requires that each Fishery Management Plan in the United States “establish a mechanism for specifying annual catch limits . . . at a level such that overfishing does not occur in the fishery . . .” (MSRA, 2006). This requirement, which ref lects an increased emphasis on conservation, is new in the sense ...

Sea cucumbers are important resources for coastal livelihoods and ecosystems. At least 60 species are fished from more than 40 countries and most of the harvests are processed then exported to Asian markets. Sea cucumbers generally appear to have slow rates of population turnover and are easily harvested in shallow waters in the tropics. With retail prices of up to USD300–500 per kg (dried), ex...

Introduction 285 MPAs, stock assessments and spatial modelling in marine ecosystems 286 The role of fisheries science in management 287 Fishery-dependent information 288 Life-history information 290 Catch demographic data 291 Fishery-independent surveys 291 Spatial variability and movement patterns 293 Structure of assessment models 293 Fisheries management objectives and obligations 296 Abstra...

Fisheries can cause major impacts on ecosystems, but the goal of managing them sustainably requires more and different information than we now have. Few fisheries have the legal mandate for ecosystem-based management or to apply precautionary management when information is lacking, so fishermen have little incentive to demand improved information. The California Marine Life Management Act of 19...

In this paper, we propose an automatic computation and data sharing scheme to support management system in coastal fishery using real-time fishery information through information and communication technology (ICT). In Japan, several species of fisheries commodity have not been specified in Total Allowable Catch policy, causing a lot of confusion on fishery cooperatives and fishermen on how to s...