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Fisheries

• kenya | Fisheries Socio-economic and ecological determinants in Wetland fisheries in the Yala Swamp. The paper examines the determinants in wetland fisheries in the Yala Swamp on the coast of Lake Victoria in Kenya with an aim to guide policy on an integrated approach towards sustainable management of fisheries in all the wetland resources. Samuel Mazera Mwakubo, Moses Muriira Ikiara and Richard Abila, 2007,"Socio-economic and ecolological determinants in wetland fisheries in the Yala Swamp",Wetlands Ecol Manage , 2007, vol.15, pp.521-528.

• tanzania | Fisheries Booming Fish Exports and Relative Welfare of Local Communities: Empirical Evidence From Around Lake Victoria, Tanzania The project aims at assessing the welfare implication of the booming fish export at the household level around Lake Victoria. With the experience of the pilot study conducted successfully last September by Andrea Mannberg –a Ph.D candidate who is also working in the project. Adolf Mkenda and John Mduma coordinate the project and other logistics for the final field work to be carried out in March-April 2008. They are in charge of organizing the term of interviewers from the Lake Victoria regions and also organizing the interviewee.

• eeu sweden tanzania | Fisheries Small-scale Fishermen and Risk Preferences Using an experimental approach, we investigate the risk preferences of artisanal fishermen in Tanzania waters of Lake Victoria. The experiment concerns pairwise comparisons of hypothetical fishing trips that vary in expected mean and spread of the net revenue. Eggert, H., and R. Lokina. 2007. "Small-scale Fishers and Risk Preferences". Marine Resource Economics 22(1): 49-67.

• eeu sweden | Fisheries Optimal harvesting in an age-class model with age-specific mortalities: An example from Namibian linefishing Namibia’s main linefish species, the kob, is subject to age-specific fishing mortalities that differ for the two fisheries (commercial linefishing vessels and recreational anglers) exploiting it. Stage, J. 2006. "Optimal harvesting in an age-class model with age-specific mortalities: An example from Namibian linefishing". Natural Resource Modeling 19(4): 609–631.

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