The effects of traditional fisheries management on fisheries yields and the coral-reef ecosystems of southern Kenya

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 105-120

  Mcclanahan, T R ^a   Glaesel, H ^b   Rubens, J ^c   Kiambo, R ^a  

^a Wildlife Conservition Society   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Common property resource; Coral reef ecology; Fisheries methods and yields; Fisheries tradition; Human ecology

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; CORAL REEF; CULTURAL PRACTICES; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHERY YIELD; FISHING TECHNOLOGY; MARINE RESOURCES; REEF FISHERIES; REEF FISHERY; TRADITIONAL APPROACH; TRADITIONAL MANAGEMENT; YIELD IMPACT;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FISHERMAN; FISHING; FOOD INDUSTRY;

KENYA;

EID: 0030702111     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892997000179     Document Type: Article

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