The water quality of the Weija Reservoir was assessed and the various sources of contaminants were identified in order to provide scientific basis for finding appropriate remedies to the contamination problems that may confront the Reservoir. Monthly water samples were taken from three sampling stations in the Weija Reservoir and analysed for physico-chemical parameters in the laboratory. The m...

Aquaculture is increasingly important world-wide as landings from natural captured fisheries is unable to meet the demand for fish. The Batang Ai Hydroelectric Dam Reservoir, located in Sarawak, Malaysia, has been an aquaculture site for the last 18 years. However, little information is available on the impact of aquaculture on the water quality of the Batang Ai reservoir. Therefore, the object...

1 Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, 8901 La Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA 2 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA 3 Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115, USA 4 Northwest Fisheries Science Center...

—Many aspects of small-scale fisheries hinder our efforts to understand their dynamics, as required for sustainable management. For example, there is no widely accepted definition of small-scale fisheries or global data on number of small-scale fishers and their catches. One reason for this is that most research on small-scale fisheries is done at community level and tends to focus on immediate...

Paul B. Conn1*, James T. Thorson2, Devin S. Johnson1 National Marine Mammal Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115 USA; 2 Fisheries Resource Assessment and Monitoring Division (FRAM), Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), NOAA, 2725 Montlake Boulevard E, Seattle, WA 98...

Small-scale fisheries are an important source of food and livelihoods to coastal communities around the world. Understanding the seasonality of fisheries catch and composition is crucial to fisheries management, particularly in the context of changing environmental and socioeconomic conditions. While seasonal variability directly impacts the lives of fishers, most fisheries studies focus on lon...

The transboundary Mekong River is facing two ongoing changes that are expected to significantly impact its hydrology and the characteristics of its exceptional flood pulse. The rapid economic development of the riparian countries has led to massive plans for hydropower construction, and projected climate change is expected to alter the monsoon patterns and increase temperature in the basin. The...

Within the European Union, scientific fisheries research and advice is passed down a chain of central European institutions before being incorporated into policy. However, advice is often poorly or only partially implemented and the system has largely failed to achieve sustainable fisheries management. This paper aims to explain why, by examining the use of fisheries science within the Common F...

the study examined relationship between the gross domestic product (gdp) of nigeria with the inputs of labour, capital and the output of fisheries. this is to ascertain that the fisheries contribution to the economy is more than is recorded in the sense that taking its indirect and direct economic impact into account, its overall contribution to the gdp of nigeria may be higher than that measur...