Trends and causes in the development of fishing effort in SADC freshwater fisheries: Implications f

The project contains ten case studies and a synthesis. The case studies have been conducted in five medium sized lakes in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

This U4 Issue paper describes corruption in the fisheries sector through the lens of state-corporate crime. It presents a case study from Senegal where ...

This multidisciplinary project (demography, geography, fishery biology, sociology)examined population dynamics, development of fishery resources, and ...

The relationships between population dynamics and fishery resources are more complex than the concept of Malthusian overfishing implies. Reasons include ...

In this edited volume, senior researcher Ragnhild Overaa writes about coastal women in Ghana in her essay When Sisters Become Competitors: Coastal Women's Innovative Utilization of Trawler By-Catch in Ghana. How do actors in "traditional" and "modern" systems of fishing interact? What economic and social changes occur in a local community as a result of women's entrepreneurship in relation to both systems?

Donors are trying to crack down on corrupt politicians in Mozambique by withholding aid money. Will their approach hold the culprits of corrupt acts and ...

Africa's marine resources are increasingly in demand and are gaining in geopolitical importance. Competition between key fishing nations for access and ...

Abstract  In October 2010, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel peace prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. The Chinese government responded ...

This paper provides a synthesis of the current literature on the potential of marine protected areas (MPAs) as a management tool to limit the ecosystem ...

The Difficult Transition from Subsistence to Commercial Fishing Inge Tvedten Maritime Anthropologic

Introduction Inge Tvedten Fishing for development. Small-scale fisheries in Africa Tvedten, Inge and

Markets and the fishing down marine food webs phenomenon Ussif Rashid Sumaila EC fisheries cooperat

Within Popo society in Pointe Noire, Congo, fishermen sell their fish to their wives at a price slightly below the local market price. The wives process ...

Wives and Traders: Women's Careers in Ghanaian Canoe Fisheries Ragnhild Overå Maritime Anthropologi

If You Don't Fish You are not a Caprivian: Freshwater Fisheries in Caprivi, Namibia Inge Tvedten Th

Small-scale or artisanal fishery is a neglected sector in research on African development, despite the fact that fishery is a vital source of protein ...

Fishing at home and abroad: Access to waters in Niger's Central Delta and the effects of work migra

Freshwater Fisheries and Fish Management in Namibia Inge Tvedten, Lori-ann girvan, Melinda Maasdorp

A key fishery policy issue decided by the new government of Namibia soon after independence in 1990 relates to the division of the total allowable catch ...