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

Technical Report: a Microcomputer-Based Decision Support System for Multispecies Fishery Management:"

Published: 
May 1, 1987
U.S. Agency for International Development
This technical report covers a year of working to design an improved toolkit for stock assessment and decision-making in small-scale fisheries. The toolkit is structured as a microcomputer-based decision support system that automates multiple-species stock assessment.Read more
Regional focus: 
United StatesNorth America

Feasibility of Relating Recruitment to Environmental Variables

Published: 
May 1, 1987
U.S. Agency for International Development
The feasibility of relating recruitment to environmental variation depends on the development of a model defining this relationship. A recruitment-environment model would need to contain components relating to both to the ecosystem "engine" and various sensors or gauges to measure its...Read more
Regional focus: 
United StatesNorth America

International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) Report

Published: 
January 1, 1987
U.S. Agency for International Development
The 10th anniversary report for ICLARM, a program that works with laboratories and universities of countries seeking assistance to aid in water management.Read more
Regional focus: 
United StatesNorth America

Length-Based Methods in Fisheries Research

Published: 
January 1, 1987
U.S. Agency for International Development
The proceedings of a conference to identify specific features of sampling schemes used to obtain length-frequency data for stock assessment; length-based methodologies for stock assessment of fish; and to review and test computer programs implementing length-based methods.Read more
Regional focus: 
United StatesNorth America

Collaborative Research Support Program Pond Dynamics/Aquaculture Fourth Annual Administrative Report

Published: 
December 1, 1986
U.S. Agency for International Development
This administrative report addresses the management and technical accomplishments of the Pond Dynamics/Aquaculture Collaborative Research Support Program during the reporting period from September 1 1985 through August 31 1986.Read more
Regional focus: 
United StatesNorth America

Progress Report: High Rate Anaerobic Digestion and High Rate Oxidation Ponds

Published: 
August 1, 1986
U.S. Agency for International Development
The objectives of this program were to characterize the various effluents from a newly built Kraft pulping mill, study the high rate of anaerobic digestion of a selected wastewater from the Kraft mill, study of photosynthetic system which can treat the effluent from the digester in high-rate...Read more
Regional focus: 
United StatesNorth America

Fisheries Stock Assessment: Annual Report 1985-1986

Published: 
January 1, 1986
U.S. Agency for International Development
Small scale fisheries are an important source of food and employment in many coastal regions of the world, and represent a significant source of protein for domestic consumption in developing countries. Fisheries stock assessment techniques employed by third world countries often do not provide...Read more
Regional focus: 
United StatesNorth America

Aquaculture of Milkfish: State of the Art

Published: 
January 1, 1986
U.S. Agency for International Development
Although it is one of the most extensively farmed marine bony fishes on earth, the milkfish (Chanos chanos) remains one of the least known and understood of the major finfish species. This book provides as complete a summary as possible of current knowledge (through December 1985) of milkfish and...Read more
Regional focus: 
United StatesNorth America

Particular Needs of Fishing Vessels for Use in the Developing World

Published: 
January 1, 1984
U.S. Agency for International Development
The fisheries of developing nations sometimes require vessels whose characteristics are quite different from those used in the industrialized countries. The panel assembled here is composed of representatives from East Asia, Latin America, West Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean. Each of...Read more
Regional focus: 
United StatesNorth America

Discussion Papers: Small-Scale, Community-Managed Irrigation Systems Workshop

Published: 
December 1, 1983
U.S. Agency for International Development
The focus of this workshop was on strategies to support a subset of small-scale irrigation projects that were manageable by an organization representing a single community of water users, even if management functions actually or nominally rest in the hands of an outside agency.Read more
Regional focus: 
United StatesNorth America

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