Author : T. Petr
Release : 1985
Genre : Nature
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Inland Fisheries in Multiple-purpose River Basin Planning and Development in Tropical Asian Countries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inland Fisheries in Multiple-purpose River Basin Planning and Development in Tropical Asian Countries write by T. Petr. This book was released on 1985. Inland Fisheries in Multiple-purpose River Basin Planning and Development in Tropical Asian Countries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This technical paper presents three case studies of inland fisheries in the context of a multiple-use of land and water resources in the humid tropics of Asia. Two of the three river basins are situated on islands, i.e. the Agno in the Philippines and the Mahaweli in Sri Lanka; one is on mainland Asia, i.e. the Nam Pong Basin in Thailand. Although the river basins have a number of features in common, such as, for example, their size, forest cover and population density, they differ in a number of other environmental aspects and changes induced by the development taking place in their basins. Inland fisheries in all three catchments is represented both by capture and culture components with reservoir fisheries gaining in importance. The studies have shown that while the major constraint to the riverine fisheries has been identified as being the high level of transported sediments originating from eroding lands and mine waste discharge (the Agno Basin), in the reservoirs of Nam Pong and Mahaweli basins it has been the high fishing pressure, in one case non-regulated (Nam Pong), which has caused deterioration of fish stocks. Another constraint in force until recently was of a social (religious) character (Mahaweli Basin). The three studies have shown that in most situations inland fisheries can successfully develop under conditions of the multiple use of the resource.