Aquaculture

According to the World Resources Institute, aquaculture—or fish farming—has grown rapidly to meet world fish demand, more than doubling production between 2000 and 2012. New research shows that aquaculture production will need to more than double again between now and 2050 to meet the demands of a growing population. Resources available in this sub-theme include aquaculture development strategies, country-wide aquaculture project reports, and institutional practices for aquaculture strengthening, among other resources that support improving aquaculture globally.

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Aquaculture Resources

Triennial Review: Pond Dynamics/Aquaculture Collaborative Research Support Program

Published: 
December 1, 1985
U.S. Agency for International Development
The global experiment is the major CRSP research activity. It was designed to remove a major constraint to expanding pond aquaculture worldwide in pursuit of the CRSP goal of increasing the availability of animal protein in less developed countries through pond aquaculture.Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Sociocultural Issues in West African Fisheries Development

Published: 
December 1, 1985
U.S. Agency for International Development
The focus of this paper is on the role of social and cultural variables in the development of the small-scale fishery in coastal West Africa. The small-scale marine fisheries of West Africa provide approximately 70 percent of the total marine production. Practically all of the small-scale fishermen...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Statistical Survey of Las Palmas Based International Trawlers for 1984

Published: 
October 1, 1985
U.S. Agency for International Development
Realizing the difficulties encountered by the CECAF Working Party on Resources Evaluation and the ad hoc Working Groups in evaluating the major fish stocks in the northern zone of the CECAF area, Spain, at the Fifth Session of the CECAF offered to assign a technician to record the activities of the...Read more
Regional focus: 
SenegalSub-Saharan Africa

Djibouti Fisheries Development Project (603-0003)

Published: 
August 31, 1985
U.S. Agency for International Development
The Fisheries Development Project has had a broad mandate of assistance to the Djibouti Fisheries Industry through technical assistance, training and facilities construction, and commodity assistance. The focus of this assistance, provided in collaboration with French Government aid and the U.N...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Report of the Second Ad Hoc Working Group on Pelagic Stocks of the Sherbo Statistical Division

Published: 
March 1, 1985
U.S. Agency for International Development
Following the recommendation of the 7th Session of the CECAF Working Party on Resources Evaluation, the 2nd Ad Hoc Working Group on the Pelagio Resources of the Sherbo Statistical Division was held at Freetown, Sierra Leone from March 26 to 30, 1985.Read more
Regional focus: 
LiberiaSub-Saharan Africa

West African Living Marine Resource: Conservation and Management

Published: 
March 1, 1985
U.S. Agency for International Development
The waters off West Africa constitute one of the richest fishing grounds in the world. As the impacts of drought in Africa increase, the marine fisheries resource has become even more important to coastal African states, and in many cases is now viewed as the principal if not only remaining...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Fish Culture Project (696-0112): Evaluation

Published: 
January 1, 1985
U.S. Agency for International Development
Evaluates project to develop a fish culture extension service in Rwanda. Special evaluation covers the period 9/81-12/84 and is based on document review, site visits, and personal and group interviews. Although poor management has caused delays in extension, construction, and training, as well as...Read more
Regional focus: 
RwandaSub-Saharan Africa

Technical Change and Social Relations in a West African Maritime Fishery: a Development History

Published: 
November 1, 1984
U.S. Agency for International Development
The relationship between technological development and socioeconomic change in the maritime fishing industry of the Sierra Leone Peninsula from 1600-1980 is explored in this paper. Positing that technological development in Africa derives from several interrelated factors such as existing...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sierra LeoneSub-Saharan Africa

West Africa Fisheries Initiatives

Published: 
October 9, 1984
U.S. Agency for International Development
Summarizes and analyzes the documentation relating to West African fisheries. Also provides synopses, analyses, and evaluations of the relevant institutions, training programs, and donor activities, with a discussion of the prospects for West African fisheries development and management is...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Working Bibliography on East African Fisheries

Published: 
June 1, 1984
U.S. Agency for International Development
Defining East Africa broadly to include both the nations which bound the Great Lakes and the island nations in the Indian Ocean, this bibliography cites almost 600 sources of information on diverse aspects of the various types of fisheries found in the region. Contents are divided into two main...Read more
Regional focus: 
Congo, Dem. Rep.Sub-Saharan Africa

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