Productivity and Efficiency

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, water efficiency is the smart use of our water resources through water-saving technologies and simple steps. Using water efficiently will help ensure reliable water supplies today and for future generations. Topics addressed in this theme provide insights, lessons, and guidance on how diverse stakeholders are working to improve water management and reduce water use.

Productivity and Efficiency Resources

Significance of Physiologically Structured Models for Fish Stock Dynamics

Published: 
April 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
The present working document contains the initial papers of a series whose ultimate purpose is to provide a realistic basis for a fresh appraisal of both the surplus production and the dynamic pool approaches to fishery yield analysis. The main idea is to tighten the conceptual framework of the...Read more
Regional focus: 
Costa RicaLatin America and the Caribbean

Inland Fisheries OPG

Published: 
March 12, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
PES of final internal evaluation of pilot project to expand inland fisheries production in the Dominican Republic. The evaluation covered the period 4/82-11/85 and was based on information from previous evaluations, site visits, and interviews with participating farmers. Overall, the project, an...Read more
Regional focus: 
Dominican RepublicLatin America and the Caribbean

Factors Influencing Success of Fishermen's Cooperatives in Ecuador

Published: 
March 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
This paper looks at factors influencing success of fishermen's cooperatives in Ecuador. The fishermen's cooperative is viewed by many as the ideal type of organization for use in improving the welfare of fishermen in development projects. Major development agencies such as the Food and...Read more
Regional focus: 
EcuadorLatin America and the Caribbean

Review of the Turks and Caicos Smithsonian Research Grant (No. 538-0140-6-00-7069-00) Project in Mariculture

Published: 
February 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
The U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) requested that the U.S. National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council (NAS/NRC), through the Board on Science and Technology for Research and Development (BOSTID),". ..conduct a peer review of aquacultural, maricultural and marine...Read more
Regional focus: 
Latin America and the Caribbean

The Use of Stationary Hydro acoustic Transducers to Study Diel and Tidal Influences on Fish Behavior

Published: 
October 1, 1987
U.S. Agency for International Development
Diel and tiday conditions are two important factors that influence fish behavior. Many fisheries, such as the Corvina fishery in the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica, take advantage of these influences. This study applied stationary transducer arrays that allowed complete coverage of the water column...Read more
Regional focus: 
Costa RicaLatin America and the Caribbean

Audit of the Program for Education and Rraining of Human Resources in Farming and Fishing with the National Commission of Loans for Education in Costa Rica: Public Law 480, Title I Funds

Published: 
July 14, 1987
U.S. Agency for International Development
Evaluates the use of P.L. 480 Title I funds by Costa Rica's National Commission of Loans for Education (CONAPE) for its Program for Education and Training of Human Resources in Farming and Fishing. Non-Federal audit, conducted by Price Waterhouse of Costa Rica, covers the period 9/83-9/85 and...Read more
Regional focus: 
Costa RicaLatin America and the Caribbean

Integrated Strategy to Promote a Sustainable Shrimp Mariculture Industry in Ecuador

Published: 
April 1, 1987
U.S. Agency for International Development
As the world's leading producer of cultured shrimp since 1983, Ecuador has profited from its shrimp mariculture industry; however, the industry has also been the major cause of changes in Ecuador's coastal ecosystems. This report presents in summary form the principal findings and...Read more
Regional focus: 
EcuadorLatin America and the Caribbean

Evaluation of Care Family Fish Pond Extension Project in Guatemala

Published: 
January 1, 1987
U.S. Agency for International Development
The CARE Family Fish Pond Extension Project in Guatemala was established with dietary and income objectives. Low resource farmers in selected communities in eastern and northern Guatemala were the focus of efforts to create new diet sources and income generation. An extension service was...Read more
Regional focus: 
GuatemalaLatin America and the Caribbean

The Peruvian Anchoveta and Its Upwelling Ecosystem: Three Decades of Climate Change

Published: 
January 1, 1987
U.S. Agency for International Development
The anchoveta fish (family Engraulidae) occurs exclusively along the turbulent coasts of Peru and Chile. This book, the fruit of a collaborative effort among research institutions on three continents - IMARPE in Peru, GTZ in West Germany, and ICLARM in the Philippines - presents a comprehensive...Read more
Regional focus: 
PeruLatin America and the Caribbean

Cooperatively Managed Panamanian Rural Fish Ponds

Published: 
December 1, 1986
U.S. Agency for International Development
Major empirical results are presented of studies conducted to measure the impact on 22 rural Panamanian communities of a pilot project to integrate livestock and other agricultural activities with a communal approach to aquaculture. Successive chapters discuss: (1) the project's technical...Read more
Regional focus: 
PanamaLatin America and the Caribbean

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