Browsing by Subject "artisanal fisheries"

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Investigation of the Negombo estuary (Sri Lanka) brush park fishery, with an emphasis on community-based management

Amarasinghe, U.S.; Amarasinghe, M.D.; Nissanka, C. (Fisheries Management and Ecology, 2002)

The Negombo estuary brush park fishery in Sri Lanka was investigated from June 1998 to March 1999. The mean fish yield (all species) in the fishery was 12.46 t ha?1 yr?1. Fin fish species formed about 91% of the yield and ...
Multi-mesh gillnet selectivity of Oreochromis mossambicus and O. niloticus (Cichlidae) in the fishery of three large perennial reservoirs in Sri Lanka

Jayasinghe, R.P.P.K.; Amarasinghe, U.S.; Moreau, J. (Sri Lanka Journal of Aquatic Sciences, 2017)

As in many tropical reservoir fisheries, the major fishing gear in the reservoirs of Sri Lanka is gillnet. Gillnets of a wide range of stretched mesh sizes (6.9 - 11.4 cm) are used in individual boats in Sri Lankan reservoirs ...
Sri Lankan reservoir fishery: a case for introduction of a co-management strategy

Amarasinghe, U.S.; de Silva, S.S. (Sri Lankan reservoir fishery: a case for introduction of a co-management strategy, 1999)

The inland fisheries of Sri Lanka are essentially artisanal on most of the reservoirs in the country. The annual inland fish production declined dramatically after 1990, when state patronage for the development of the ...

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