Marine fisheries in Tanzania

Ambio

Volumn 31, Issue 7-8, 2002, Pages 518-527

  Jiddawi, Narriman S ^a   Öhman, Marcus C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTISANAL FISHERY; CATCH STATISTICS; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHING INDUSTRY; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT;

TANZANIA;

ACANTHURUS MONROVIAE; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; CHIMAERA MONSTROSA; LUTJANIDAE; PARUPENEUS BARBERINUS; PISCES; PLECTORHINCHUS; SPARISOMA CRETENSE;

EID: 0036991258     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-31.7.518     Document Type: Conference Paper

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85. The authors wish to thank the the support from TCMP, the Institute of Marine Sciences (UDSM) and the Sida/SAREC Bilateral Marine Science Programme between Sweden and Tanzania for logistic and financial support. Our profound thanks to Prof. Allan Whittick of Memorial University of New Foundland, Dr. Matt Richmond of Samaki Consultancies and Dr. Rick Stanley of the Pacific Laboratoty Nanaimo for valuable comments on the manuscript. We wish also to thank Saleh Yahya and Hamad Khatib for their assistance in fieldwork.