The catch and effort data of the artisanal fisheries of the natural lakes and reservoirs in the Philippines, and reservoirs in Sri Lanka and Thailand are evaluated. The yield (kg ha?1 year?1) to effort relationship of the ...

Sri Lankan reservoir fishery is one of the best documented in the South East Asian region. It is very productive and the average fish yield in reservoirs of the country is about 300 kg ha-I, yr". Nevertheless the Sri Lankan ...

Most investigations on food resource partitioning in fish along the temporal dimension are based on the diet composition of constituent species in fish assemblages, pooled over a longer time lapse, but variation within ...

Aquaculture is seen as an alternative to meeting the widening gap in global rising demand and decreasing supply for aquatic food products. Asia, the epicenter of the global aquaculture industry, accounts for over 90% of ...

There is a growing recognition of the need to conserve biodiversity that has been conceptualised in the Convention of Biological Diversity. Maintenance of fish species richness is particularly important, because habitat ...

A seasonal fishery from December to May each year exists for a small-sized clupeid, Ehirava fluviatilis in an estuary on the West coast of Sri Lanka. Two kinds of lift nets are used for catching this species. The theoretical ...

As in most artisanal fisheries, assessment of fishing effort is crucial to the management of the artisanal fishery of Parakrama Samudra, an ancient man-made tropical lake in Sri Lanka. Since there were few similarities ...