Diagnosis and Management of Small-Scale and Data-Limited Fisheries

Abstract

Historically, small-scale fisheries (SSFs) have largely been overlooked by fisheries scientists and management authorities at national and international levels [...]

Diversity and characteristics of commercial Red Sea fish species based on fish market survey: informing management to reduce the risk of overfishing

“…Due to the increasing need for more accurate and accessible fishery data, in 2015, the FAO created the “Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable SSFs” to raise awareness of SSFs and encourage states to fund projects for their sustainability. In these guidelines, the FAO urges states to improve (or establish) data collection programmes for SSFs (Samy‐Kamal & Teixeira, 2023). Taking into account that the vendors at the retail market (in this case the fish “Sakkala” market) organise auctions inside the market to buy the remaining catch, co‐organised Dutch auctions would be a very useful source of data in this case and an important tool to monitor the fishery and gather important data.…”

“…On the Red Sea, the first method takes place in closed fishing ports and some landing sites, where the quantities of landings of all fishing units are counted by the GAFRD's representative for each species or item/ category of species (e.g., sometimes families) in the logbook of GAFRD Due to the increasing need for more accurate and accessible fishery data, in 2015, the FAO created the "Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable SSFs" to raise awareness of SSFs and encourage states to fund projects for their sustainability. In these guidelines, the FAO urges states to improve (or establish) data collection programmes for SSFs (Samy-Kamal & Teixeira, 2023). Taking into account that the vendors at the retail market (in this case the fish "Sakkala" market)…”

“…This, in some cases, is due to the lack of suitable data collection methods or well-trained staff to collect data. Characterising landings is also a complex task due to the inherent characteristics of these fisheries, such as the use of multi-gear and targeting multi-species, diffuse effort, far and many landing sites, as well as the lack of suitable data collection methods, well-trained staff to collect data or economic resources to do so by management authorities (Samy-Kamal & Teixeira, 2023). The inaccuracy of catch and landing data leads to difficulty in monitoring fisheries and hindering the ability to develop adequate management strategies for such areas (Chang, 2014).…”

From Co-Operation to Coercion in Fisheries Management: The Effects of Military Intervention on the Nile Perch Fishery on Lake Victoria in Uganda

“…Qualitative data were used to provide background information, the context of the study, and to discover the structure of the law enforcement operations, while quantitative data were used to explain the effects of the operations on fisheries effort and catch. We chose this approach to mitigate the comparative weakness of qualitative research, add richer detail to their conclusions, and make the results more credible by using different methods to collect data on the same subject as has been carried out in several other studies [46,48,49].…”

Endemic species analysis: Foliar epidermal anatomical characters of Aster glehnii F. Schmidt (Asteraceae)

“…Conservation initiatives are being carried out to preserve A. glehnii and its environment (Nakahama et al, 2022). The species is protected legally, and its harvest from the wild is forbidden because of its listing as “Vulnerable” in the Russian Federation's Red Data Book (Samy‐Kamal et al, 2023). In addition, several protected areas, such as the Ussuriysky Nature Reserve and the Lazovsky State Nature Reserve, have been designated within its distribution zone.…”