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Aug 18-21: Conference on Fisheries and Coastal Environment in Accra, Ghana ...read more1 November 2018
Nov 8: CRC to host RIMTA’s Annual MeetingCRC will be hosting the RI Marine Trades Association’s annual ...read more25 October 2018
Nov 8 and Nov 9: Game of FloodsCRC is teaming up with Providence, RI Emergency Management Agency – ...read moreTrainings for small pelagic fisheries data collectors.
read moreThis seminar discusses governance history of the Narragansett Bay watershed and identifies attributes that contribute to a healthy network governance processes.
read moreThis report outlines recommendations to the MSP practitioner community based on a CRC-led assessment.
read moreThis report examines overcapacity in small-scale fisheries, its causes, consequences and approaches to addressing it and includes case studies and recommendations for the way forward.
read moreCoastal ecosystems are under pressure from population growth, habitat change, thermal stress, sea level rise, acidification, resource over-exploitation and degradation, pollution, and altered freshwater flows. Pressure on the coast is likely to increase with continuing climate change, population growth, urbanization trends, and the fact that most of the world’s largest cities are located in the coastal zone. It is, therefore, critically important that everything possible be done to avoid and reduce the impacts of human activities on invaluable coastal ecosystems and to find alternatives to “business as usual.”
read moreReference Guide for PHE Community-Based Distributors and PHE Adult Peer Educators
read moreSemi-annual Results Report #8, Jan. 1, 2012 -- June 30, 2012
read moreThis is the Year Three (2012) work plan for the Integrated Coastal and Fisheries Governance (ICFG) Program for the Western Region of Ghana. PW008.
read moreFishers changing from multifilament to monofilament nets include perceptions of higher catch efficiency, lower relative cost and ease of use. Commonly stated disadvantages to fishing with monofilament versus multifilament nets is that they take up more space in the fishing boat and in some cases are said to be less durable overall and require more frequent repair than multifilament mesh. Case studies from across the world highlight measures or restrictions that can be applied (sometimes concurrently) to net fisheries to avoid conflicts with other fisheries, to reduce the catch of non‐target or juvenile species, to control fishing capacity, to help recover fish stocks and/or to keep the fishery operating at sustainable levels. Globally the need for buybacks, sometimes called decommissioning schemes, generally arises due to poorly structured property rights, particularly in situations of open access or no property rights. Buybacks, can be used for many reasons36 but in general are used to reduce over‐capacity that has lead to overexploitation or economic inefficiency. Without careful planning expensive buyback programmes may have negative consequences. Employing some clear design principles can help to lead to positive impacts on fisheries and for fishers from buyback schemes.
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