A sixteen-country mobilization for sustainable fisheries in the Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem

Ocean and Coastal Management

Volumn 49, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 385-412

  Ukwe, Chika N ^a   Ibe, Chidi A ^a   Sherman, Kenneth ^b  

^a UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION   (Austria)

^b ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; COASTAL ZONES; ECOSYSTEMS; OCEAN HABITATS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THERMODYNAMICS;

GUINEA CURRENT LARGE MARINE ECOSYSTEM (GCLME); PRIORITY MANAGEMENT; TROPHODYNAMICS;

FISHERIES;

BIODIVERSITY; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; HABITAT RESTORATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRANSBOUNDARY COOPERATION;

AFRICA; ANGOLA; CABINDA [ANGOLA]; GUINEA-BISSAU; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 33745997706     PISSN: 09645691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2006.04.006     Document Type: Article

References (79)

1. Sherman K. Large marine ecosystems as global units for marine resources management-an ecological perspective. In: Sherman K.A., Alexander L.M., and Gold B.D. (Eds). Large marine ecosystems-stress, mitigation, and sustainability. AAAS selected symposium (1993), Westview Press Inc., Boulder, Colorado 3-14
2. Ukwe C.N., Ibe C.A., Alo B.I., and Yumkella K.K. Achieving a paradigm shift in environmental and living resources management in the Gulf of Guinea: the large marine ecosystem approach. Mar Pollut Bull 47 (2003) 219-225
3. Koranteng K.A. Fish species assemblages on the continental shelf and upper slope off Ghana. In: MacGlade J.M., Cury P., Koranteng K.A., and Hardman-Mountford N.J. (Eds). The Gulf of Guinea large marine ecosystem: environmental forcing and sustainable development of marine resources (2002), Elsevier Science, Amsterdam 173-187
4. Allen J.R., and Wells J.W. Holocene coral banks and subsidence in the Niger Delta. Journal of Geology 70 (1962) 381-397
5. Awosika L.F., and Ibe A.C. Geomorphic features of the Gulf of Guinea shelf and littoral drift dynamics. In: Ibe A.C., Awosika L.F., and Aka K. (Eds). Nearshore dynamics and sedimentology of the Gulf of Guinea (1998), IOC/UNIDO, CEDA Press, Cotonou 21-27
6. Allersman E., and Tilmans W.M.K. Coastal conditions in West Africa-a review. Ocean and Coastal Management 19 3 (1993) 199-240
7. Quelennec RE. Identification des problemes d'erosion sur le littoral sableux de Cote d'Ivoire. Propositions d'actions prioritaires. Rapport du BRGM, 1984. 46pp.
8. Williams, F. Report of the Guinean trawling survey. Organization of African unity scientific and technical research commission, vol. 99. Lagos; 1968.
9. Mahé G. La variabilité des apports fluviaux au golfe de Guinée utilisée comme indice climatique. In: Curry P., and Roy C. (Eds). Pêcheries ouest-Africaines, instabilité et changement (1991), ORSTOM, Paris 147-161
10. Folorunsho R., Awosika L.F., and Dublin-Green C.O. An assessment of river inputs into the Gulf of Guinea. In: Ibe A.C., Awosika L.F., and Aka K. (Eds). Nearshore dynamics and sedimentology of the Gulf of Guinea (1998), IOC/UNIDO, CEDA Press, Cotonou 163-172
11. Lamb P.J. Persistence on sub-Saharan drought. Nature 299 (1982) 46-48
12. Scheren P.A., Ibe A.C., Jansen F.J., and Lemmens A.M. Environmental pollution in the Gulf of Guinea-a regional approach. Mar Pollut Bull 47 7 (2002) 633-641
13. Ukwe C.N. Implementing innovative best environmental practices and policy approaches for the reduction of nutrient pollution in transboundary waterbodies in Western Africa: contributions of UNIDO technical assistance programmes. In: Ibe A.C., Ukwe C.N., and Nwilo P.C. (Eds). Proceedings of an expert group meeting on pollution and sediment sources in the Nigerian Inland waterways and strategies for their management (2003), Lokoja, Nigeria 198-224
14. World Bank. Africa: a framework for integrated coastal zone management. Land, water and national habitats division (1994), World Bank Africa Environmentally Sustainable Development Division, Washigston DC 139pp
15. Longhurst A.R. A review of the oceanography of the Gulf of Guinea. Bull Inst Fr Afr Noire 14A 3 (1962) 633-663
16. Henin C., Hisard P., and Piton B. Observations hydrologiques dans l' Ocean Atlantique Equatorial. ORSTOM FOCAL 1 (1986) 1-191
17. Moroshkin K.V., Bunov V.A., and Bulatov R.P. Water circulation in the eastern South Atlantic Ocean. Oceanology 10 (1970) 27-34
18. Stramma L., and Schott F. The mean flow field of the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Deep-Sea Res 46 (1999) 279-303
19. Arnault S. Tropical Atlantic geostrophic currents and ship drifts. J Phys Oceanogr 18 (1987) 1050-1060
20. Richardson P.L., and Walsh D. Mapping climatological seasonal variations of surface currents in the tropical Atlantic using ship drifts. J Geophys Res 91 (1986) 10537-10550
21. Bakun A. Guinea current upwelling. Nature 27 (1978) 147-150
22. Ibe A.C., and Csizer Z. The Gulf of Guinea as a large marine ecosystem. UNESCO Nat Resour 34 3 (1998) 30-39
23. Ukwe CN. Citizen participation in restoration of the coastal and marine quality of the Guinea current large marine ecosystem. In: U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Coastal Services Center. Proceedings of the 13th biennial coastal zone conference, Baltimore, Maryland, NOAA/CSC/20322-CD. CD-ROM. Charleston, SC: NOAA Coastal Services Center; 2003.
24. Binet D., and Marchal E. The large marine ecosystem of shelf areas in the Gulf of Guinea: long-term variability induced by climatic changes. In: Sherman K.A., Alexander L.M., and Gold B.D. (Eds). Large marine ecosystems-stress, mitigation, and sustainability. AAAS selected symposium (1993), Westview Press Inc., Boulder, Colorado 104-118
25. Roy C. The Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana coastal upwelling: dynamics and change. In: Bard FX, Koranteng KA, editors. Dynamique et usage des ressources en sardinelles de l'upwelling côtier du Ghana et de la Cote d'Ivoire. Paris: ORSTOM éditions; 1995. p. 346-61.
26. Ibe A.C., and Ajayi T.O. Possible upwelling phenomenon off the Nigerian coast. NIOMR Tech Publ 25 (1985) 1-30
27. Richardson P.L., and Philander S.G.H. The seasonal variations of surface currents in the tropical Atlantic Ocean: a comparison of ship drift data with results from a general circulation model. J Geophys Res 92 (1987) 715-724
28. Binet D. Climate and pelagic fisheries in the canary and Guinea currents 1964-1993: the role of trade winds and the Southern oscillation. Oceanologia Acta 20 (1997) 177-190
29. Philander S.G.H. Upwelling in the Gulf of Guinea. J Mar Res 37 (1979) 23-33
30. Adamec D., and O'Brien J.J. The seasonal upwelling in the Gulf of Guinea due to remote forcing. J Phys Oceanogr 8 (1978) 1050-1062
31. Ajayi TO. The status of marine fishery resources of the Gulf of Guinea: Proceedings of 10th session FAO CECAF, Accra, Ghana, 1994. (CECAF/RE/94/2 Add).
32. FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization). FISHSTAT Plus: a PC system for the extended time series of global catches (2000), FAO Fisheries Department, FAO, Rome
33. Garibaldi L, Limongelli L. Trends in oceanic captures and clustering of large marine ecosystems: two studies based on the FAO capture database. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper, vol. 435. 2003. 71pp.
34. WCMC (World Conservation Monitoring Centre). Ecologically sensitive areas in Africa. I. Occidental and Central Africa. Report compiled by WCMC for the World Bank, Washington DC, 1993.
35. WCMC (World Conservation Monitoring Centre). Ecologically sensitive areas in Africa IV. West Africa. Report compiled by WCMC for the World Bank, Washington DC, 1993.
36. Isebor CE. The mangroves of the Gulf of Guinea. UNIDO Project EG/RAF/92/G.34, Abidjan, 1999.
37. UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme). Overview of land-based sources of and activities affecting the marine, coastal and associated freshwater environment in the West and Central African Region. UNEP regional seas reports and studies 171, UNEP, Nairobi, 1999.
38. Ukwe CN, Isebor CE, Alo BI. Improving the quality of Coastal waters in the Gulf of Guinea large marine ecosystem through mangrove restoration. In: Proceedings of 12th international conference of coastal zone 2001. NOAA/CSC/20120-CD. Cleveland, Ohio, 2001.
39. IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature). Wetland management and rural development in West Africa. Progress report no. 3 prepared for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN; 1991.
40. Koranteng K.A., Ofori-Danson P.K., and Entsua-Mensah M. Comparative study of the fish and fisheries of three coastal lagoons in West Africa. Int J Ecol Environ Sci 24 (1998) 371-382
41. Mensah M.A., and Quaatey S.N.K. An overview of the fisheries resources and fishery research in the Gulf of Guinea. In: MacGlade J.M., Cury P., Koranteng K.A., and Hardman-Mountford N.J. (Eds). The Gulf of Guinea large marine ecosystem: environmental forcing and sustainable development of marine resources (2002), Elsevier Science, Amsterdam 227-239
42. FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization). Review of the state of world fishery resources: marine fisheries, FOA fisheries circular no. 920 FIRM/C920. Rome: FAO, 1997.
43. FRU/ORSTOM. Rapport du groupe de travail sur la sardinelle (Sardinella aurita) des cotes ivoiro-ghaneenes, 28 juin-3juillet, 1976, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. Paris: ORSTOM Editions, 1976. 62pp.
44. CECAF (Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic). Report of the ninth session of the working party on resources evaluation, Lagos, Nigeria, FAO Fish. Rep. No. 454, vol. 79. Rome; 1990.
45. Van der Knaap M. Preliminary annotated inventory of the scientific expeditions and resource surveys carried out in the CECAF area. CECAF/TECH/85/64, 1985. 145pp.
46. Entsua-Mensah M. The contribution of coastal lagoons to the continental shelf ecosystem of Ghana. In: MacGlade J.M., Cury P., Koranteng K.A., and Hardman-Mountford N.J. (Eds). The Gulf of Guinea large marine ecosystem: environmental forcing and sustainable development of marine resources (2002), Elsevier Science, Amsterdam 161-169
47. FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization). Review of the State of World Fishery Resources part 1. FAO Fisheries Circular 710 Rev. 8 Part 1, Rome, 1992. 114pp.
48. Villegas L, Garcia S. Demersal fish assemblages in Liberia, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Cameroon. CECAF/ECAF SERIES 83/26, 1983. 16pp.
49. FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization). Proceedings of the expert consultations on fish technology in Africa. FAO fish report, Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire, 1989.
50. UNIDO/UNDP/UNEP. The transboundary diagnostic analysis for the guinea current large marine ecosystem. UNIDO Accra, 2003. 180pp.
51. CECAF (Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic). Proceedings of the 10th session of the working party on resources evaluation, Accra Ghana, FAO Fish Report, vol. 511, 1994. p. 1-95.
52. Ibe A.C., and Sherman K. The Gulf of Guinea large marine ecosystem project: turning challenges into achievements. In: MacGlade J.M., Cury P., Koranteng K.A., and Hardman-Mountford N.J. (Eds). The Gulf of Guinea large marine ecosystem: environmental forcing and sustainable development of marine resources (2002), Elsevier Science, Amsterdam 27-39
53. Isebor C.E. Implications of ocean dynamics in the Gulf of Guinea on the distribution of some small pelagic fishes. In: Ibe A.C., Awosika L.F., and Aka K. (Eds). Nearshore dynamics and sedimentology of the Gulf of Guinea (1998), IOC/UNIDO, CEDA Press, Cotonou 69-76
54. Ibe AC, Brown BE. Ensuring living resources availability and biodiversity conservation in the Gulf of Guinea through large scale integrated ecosystem management. Proceedings of conference on fisheries, habitat and pollution, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 1997.
55. Aryeetey E.B.-D. Socio-economic aspects of artisanal marine fisheries management in West Africa. In: MacGlade J.M., Cury P., Koranteng K.A., and Hardman-Mountford N.J. (Eds). The Gulf of Guinea large marine ecosystem: environmental forcing and sustainable development of marine resources (2002), Elsevier Science, Amsterdam 323-344
56. In: Ibe A.C., and Zabi S.G. (Eds). State of the coastal and marine environment of the Gulf of Guinea (1998), CEDA Press, Cotonou
57. Koranteng K.A., and Pézennec O. Variability and trends in environmental time series along the Ivorian and Ghanaian Coasts. In: Durand M.H., Cury P., Mendelssohn R., Roy C., Bakun A., and Pauly D. (Eds). Global versus local changes in upwelling systems (1998), ORSTOM Editions, Paris 167-177
58. Binet D., Marchal E., and Pézennec O. Sardinella aurita de Côte d'ivoire et du Ghana: fluctuations halieutiques et changements climatiques. In: Cury P., and Roy C. (Eds). Pêcheries ouest-africaines. Variabilité, instabilitée et changement (1991), ORSTOM, Paris 320-342
59. Cury P., and Roy C. Environmental forcing and fisheries resources in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana: did something happen?. In: MacGlade J.M., Cury P., Koranteng K.A., and Hardman-Mountford N.J. (Eds). The Gulf of Guinea large marine ecosystem: environmental forcing and sustainable development of marine resources (2002), Elsevier Science, Amsterdam 241-260
60. Konan J, Isebor CE, Koranteng KA, N'goran N, Amiengheme P. Report of the second regional fish trawl survey of the Gulf of Guinea. UNIDO Project EG/RAF/92/G.34, Abidjan, 1999.
61. UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme). Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based activities. Report for the West and the Central African Region, Redkjavik 1995.
62. Ibe AC, Quelennec RE. Methodology for the assessment and control of coastal erosion in West and Central Africa. UNEP regional seas reports and studies, vol. 107. Nairobi: UNEP; 1989.
63. Ibe AC, Antia EE. Preliminary assessment of the impact of erosion along the Nigerian shoreline. NIOMR technical paper, vol. 13. 1993.
64. Saenger P, Sankare Y, Perry T. Effects of pollution and overcutting on mangroves. UNIDO project EG/RAF/92/G.34, Abidjan, 1996.
65. Sankare Y., Avit L.F.J.-B., Eganakou W., and Saenger P. Etude floristique des mangroves des milieux margino-littoraux de Cote d'Ivoire. Bull Jard Bot Nat Belg/Bull Nat Plantentuin Belg 67 (1999) 335-360
66. Ibe AC. Experience from marine pollution monitoring in West and Central Africa. Symposium on global marine pollution, sixth session of the IOC scientific committee on the global investigation of pollution in the marine environment, Paris, France, 1986.
67. Ibe A.C. The coastal zone and oceanic problems of sub-Saharan Africa. In: Benneth G., Morgan W.B., and Uitto J.I. (Eds). Sustaining the future: economic, social and environmental change in sub-saharan Africa (1996), United Nations University Press 201-214
68. Portmann JE, Biney C, Ibe C, Zabi S. State of the Marine Environment in the West and Central Africa Region, UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 108. Nairobi: UNEP; 1989.
69. FAO, Revue de la pollution dans l'environnement aquatique africain. In: Calamari D, Naeve H, editors. Document Technique du CPCA No 25, 1994. 129pp.
70. Ajao EA. Review of the state of pollution of Lagos Lagoon. NIOMR technical paper, vol. 106. 1996. p. 1-20.
71. Biney CA. Assessment of water, air and land pollution sources in Accra-Tema metropolitan area, Ghana. World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa, Accra, 1994.
72. Kouassi A.K., Kaba N., and Métongo B.S. Land based sources of pollution and environmental quality of the Ébrie lagoon waters. Mar Pollut Bull 5 (1995) 295-300
73. SAHFOS (Sir Alister Hardy Foundatrion for Ocean Science) UK. Annual summary of Continous Plankton Recorder Tows in the Gulf of Guinea for 01 Dec. 1996-30 Nov. 1997. A report for UNIDO project no. EG/RAF/92/G.34, Abidjan, 1997.
74. John A.W.G., Reid P.C., Batten S.D., and Anang E.R. Monitoring levels of "Phytoplankton Colour" in the Gulf of Guinea using ships of opportunity. In: MacGlade J.M., Cury P., Koranteng K.A., and Hardman-Mountford N.J. (Eds). The Gulf of Guinea large marine ecosystem: environmental forcing and sustainable development of marine resources (2002), Elsevier Science, Amsterdam 141-146
75. Koranteng K.A., and McGlade J.M. Climatic trends in continental shelf waters off Ghana and in the Gulf of Guinea, 1963-1992. Oceanologica 24 (2001) 2
76. Binet D. Hypotheses accounting for the variability of sardinella abundance in the northern Gulf of Guinea. In: Bard F.X., and Koranteng K.A. (Eds). Dynamics and use of sardinella resources from upwelling in Ghana and Ivory coast (1995), ORSTOM Editions, Paris 98-133
77. UN-WSSD (United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development). The Johannesburg plan of implementation of the world summit on sustainable development (2002), United Nations, New York
78. Sherman K. The Gulf of Guinea and global development and sustainability of large marine ecosystems. In: Ibe A.C., Oteng-Yeboah A.A., Zabi S.G., and Afolabi A. (Eds). Integrated environmental and living resources management in the Gulf of Guinea: The large marine ecosystem approach. Proceedings of the first regional symposium on the Gulf of Guinea large marine ecosystem (1998), UNIDO/UNDP/NOAA/UNEP, CSIR Press, Accra, Ghana 50-75
79. UNIDO/UNDP/UNEP. The preliminary strategic action programme for the Guinea Current large marine ecosystem. Accra: UNIDO; 2003.