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The overall purpose of the project is to improve water policy and decision-making at local, national, and basin levels so that these can take informed account of the flow requirements of socio-economically important river fisheries. The project will seek to achieve this by providing state of the art information on the value of tropical river fisheries and the impact upon these of changes in water flow, and by providing guidance for the development of practical tools for predicting the impact of changes in river flow regime on ecological systems, the fisheries they sustain, and the communities that depend upon them. It will do this by carrying out a comprehensive review of existing information and tools, identifying their strengths and weaknesses, testing integration, and providing guidance on the further development and testing of improved tools with stakeholder groups in selected river basins.
Collaborators:
The WorldFish Center (ICLARM)
The WorldFish Center is a unique international research center involved in research on fisheries and other living aquatic resources. Fore more details http://www.worldfishcenter.org/
IWMI, Griffith University and Southern Waters, Imperial College, Mekong River Commission (Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos), Water Research Center (Ghana), the Nigerian Institute for Freshwater Fisheries Research (Nigeria), University of Cape Town (South Africa)
Duration: 2003-2004
Project Proposal [download -word 99kb]
Briefs
Recognising the value of tropical river fisheries
Water requirements of floodplain rivers and fisheries: Improving decision-support tools
Publications
Arthington, A. H., E. Baran, C. A. Brown, P. Dugan, A. S. Halls, J. M. King, C. V. Minte-Vera, R. E. Tharme and R. L. Welcomme. Water Requirements of Floodplain Rivers and Fisheries: Existing Decision Support Tools and Pathways for Development. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institue. 74pp. (Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Research Report 17)
Neiland Arthur E. and Christophe Béné, Tropical River Fisheries Valuation: A Global Synthesis and Critical Review. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute. 45 pp. (Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Research Report 15) 2007
Workshop/Conference Papers
Water, Ecosystems and Fisheries Review Workshop, organised by the World Fish Center, Phnom Penh, 15-17 February 2003 - Review of River Fisheries Valuation in West and Central Africa by
Arthur Neiland and Christophe Béné (PDF 341KB)
Draft Papers
Water Requirements of Floodplain Rivers And Fisheries: Existing Decision-Support Tools and Pathways for Development by Arthington, A. H., Baran, E., Brown, C. A., Dugan, P., Halls, A.S., King J. M., Minte-Vera, C.V., Tharme, R. E.nd Welcomme, R. L. (Forthcoming CA RR)
Review of Literature on Values of Inland Capture Fisheries and Dams Construction at the Lower Mekong and Ganga Basins by Chiew Kieok Chong, Mahfuzuddin Ahmed, Rowena Andrea Valmonte-Santos, Hari Balasubramanian (PDF 144KB)
The Valuation of Riparian Fisheries in Southern and Eastern Africa by Jane K. Turpie (PDF 249KB)
Review of River Fisheries Valuation in Central and South America by Elizabeth Bennett and Andy Thorpe (PDF 295KB)
Review of River Fisheries Valuation in West and Central Africa by Arthur Neiland and Christophe Béné (PDF 340KB)
Review of River Fisheries Valuation in Tropical Asia by Ana Norman-Lopez, James P. Innes, Premachandra Wattage and David J. Whitmarsh (PDF 272KB) (Appendix - PDF 627KB)
For further information write to comp.assessment@cgiar.org
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