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Taking out of the sea more than natural population growth can sustain. Overfishing has a number of causes, the most ruthless being chronic over capacity of modern fishing fleets to effectively take far more fish than can be replaced. (Source: WPR)
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2015. Strengthening the human dimension of an ecosystem approach to fisheries management in the BCC Region.
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| Strengthening the human dimension of an ecosystem approach to fisheries management in the BCC Region.pdf | 2.25 MB |
2014. Conclusions: Reframing the possibilities for natural and social science dialogue on the economic history of natural resources. Ecology and Society
19 (1) 17
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| Reframing the possibilities for natural and social science dialogue on the economic history of natural resources_2014.pdf | 110.26 KB |
2014. Rebuilding the Namibian hake fishery: a case for collaboration between scientists and fishermen. Ecology and Society
19 (2) 49
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| Rebuilding the Namibian hake fishery.pdf | 532.36 KB |
2014. Chapter 7: Science, fishers' knowledge and Namibia's fishing industry. Africa-centred Knowledges: Crossing Fields and Worlds
111-125
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| Science_Fishers Knowledge and Namibias Fishing Industry_2014.pdf | 189.59 KB |
2015. Evidence based management recommendations for the Namibian Hake Fishery with special emphasis on use value and employment. Ecofish WP3: Incorporation of stakeholders' knowledge in data collection and analysis. Prepared for Benguela Current Commission (BCC).
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| WP3 Report - evidence based recommendations.pdf | 1.85 MB |
2013. A short history of the Namibian hake fishery—a socialecological analysis. Ecology and Society
18 (4) 66
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| Paterson et al 2013 History Nam Hake ES-2013-5919.pdf | 94.97 KB |
2016. Government Notices: No. 296: Prohibition on issuing of licences for monofilament nets to be used as regulated fishing gear: Inland Fisheries Resources Act, 2003. 4
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| Prohibition on issueing of licences for monofilament nets to be used as regulated fishing gear.pdf | 1.75 MB |
2001. Report of the second horse mackerel otolith reading workshop.
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| Report of the second horse mackerel otolith reading workshop.pdf | 359.51 KB |
2012. Evaluation of the status of the Namibian Hake resource (Merluccius spp.) using statistical catch-at-age analysis.
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| Evaluation of the status of the Namibian Hake resource.pdf | 1.58 MB |
2003. Coastal and Marine Ecosystems - Namibia.
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| Coastal and Marine Ecosystems_Namibia.pdf | 71.46 KB |
2001. The Namibian horse mackerel stock -Summary of resource and management.
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| The Namibian horse mackerel stock.pdf | 460.24 KB |
2000. Marine Resources Act, no 27 of 2000.
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| Marine Resources Act_ no 27 of 2000.pdf | 966.64 KB |
2001. A comparison of condition factor and gonadosomatic index of sardine Sardinops sagax stocks in the northern and southern Benguela upwelling ecosystems, 1984–1999. South African Journal of Marine Science
23 (1) 123-134
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| A comparison of condition factor and gonadosomatic index of sardine Sardinops sagax stocks_2001.pdf | 128.13 KB |
2003. A developing country puts a halt to foreign overfishing. Economic Perspectives
8 (1)
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| A Developing Country Puts A Halt To Foreign Overfishing_2003.pdf | 152.66 KB |
2011. The selection of spawning location of sardine (Sardinops sagax) in the northern Benguela after changes in stock structure and environmental conditions. Fisheries Oceanography
20 (6) 560-569
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| The selection of spawning location of sardine in the northern Benguela.pdf | 348.75 KB |
1991. The Namibian Fisheries Experience. Samudra
5-6 16-20
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| The Namibian Fisheries Experience.pdf | 335.73 KB |
2003. Sustainability of the Benguela: ex Africa semper aliquid novi. Large Marine Ecosystems of the World: Trends in Exploitation, Protection and Research
227-253
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| Sustainability of the Benguela_ex Africa semper aliquid novi.pdf | 502.9 KB |
2002. The Eu-Angola Fisheries Agreement and Fisheries in Angola.
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| The Eu Angola Fisheries Agreement and Fisheries in Angola.pdf | 430.12 KB |
2008. Characterizing and Comparing the Spawning Habitats of Sardine (Sardinops sagax) and Anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) in the Northern Benguela Region.
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| Characterizing and Comparing the Spawning Habitats of Sardineand Anchovy_northern Benguela.pdf | 1.78 MB |
2012. A transboundary study of the pelagic fish stocks of southern Angola and northern Namibia.
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| A transboundary study of the pelagic fish stocks of southern Angola and northern Namibia_2012.pdf | 6.77 MB |
2009. Use of environmental parameters to explain the variability in spawner recruitment relationships of Namibian sardine Sardinops sagax. African Journal of Marine Science
31 (2) 157-170
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| Use of environmental parameters to explain the variability in spawner recruitment.pdf | 339.71 KB |
1990. The Dr. Fridtjof Nansen Programme 1975–1993 - Investigations of fishery resources in developing regions History of the programme and review of results.
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| Investigations of fishery resources in developing regions.pdf | 4.49 MB |
1990. Namibian Fish Resources: An Alternative Conservation Policy. South African Journal of Economics 58 (4) 269-275
2001. Could marine resources provide a short-term solution to declining fish supply in SADC inland countries? The case of horse mackerel. Food Policy 26 (1) 11-34
2007. Developing age-structured stock assessment models as a basis for management procedure evaluations for Namibian sardine. Fisheries Research 85 (1-2) 148-158
2013. Global genetic population structure in the commercially exploited deep-sea teleost orange roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus) based on microsatellite DNA analyses. Fisheries Research 140 83-90
2002. Estimating the probability of different levels of recruitment for Cape hakes Merluccius capensis off Namibia, using environmental indices. Fisheries Research 58 (3) 333-340
COFAD Consultants - Technical Co-operation with Namibia in the Field of Fisheries and Marine Ecosystem Research.
Website link:http://www.cofad.de/namibia.htm
2016. Migration, distribution and population (stock) structure of shallow-water hake (Merluccius capensis) in the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem inferred using a geostatistical population model. Fisheries Research
179 156-167
2016. The use of ecological, fishing and environmental indicators in support of decision making in southern Benguela fisheries. Ecological Indicators 69 473-487
2016. Fisheries catch under-reporting in The Gambia, Liberia and Namibia and the three large marine ecosystems which they represent. Environmental Development
17 (1) 157-174
2015. Coping with illegal fishing: An institutional account of success and failure in Namibia and South Africa. Biological Conservation 189 78-85
2001. Report of the Ad Hoc Meeting on Management of Deepwater Fisheries Resources of the Southern Indian Ocean, 30 May - 1 June 2001.
Website link:http://www.fao.org/3/a-y2339e/index.html
1999. Estimation of total catch of silver kob Argyrosomus inodorus by recreational shore-anglers in Namibia using a roving-roving creel survey. South African Journal of Marine Science 21 (1) 191-199
1987. Response of rock-lobster populations in the Benguela ecosystem to environmental change - a hypothesis. South African Journal of Marine Science 5 (1) 887-899
2013. Jellyfication of Marine Ecosystems as a Likely Consequence of Overfishing Small Pelagic Fishes: Lessons from the Benguela. Bulletin of Marine Science 89 (1) 249-284
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| Jellyfication of marine ecosystems as a likely consequence of overfishing small pelagic fishes.pdf | 927.61 KB |
Website link:https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2011.1145
2015. Networks of capital: Reframing knowledge in the Namibian hake fishery. Marine Policy
60 293-299
Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2014.08.014
2015. Fisheries science, parliament and fishers' knowledge in South Africa: An attempt at scholarly diplomacy. Marine Policy
60 345-352
Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2014.08.002
2008. Knowledge-based systems as decision support tools in an ecosystem approach to fisheries: Comparing a fuzzy-logic and a rule-based approach. Progress in Oceanography
79 (2-4) 390-400
Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2008.10.010
2015. Introduction to the special issue marine policy science, state and fishers knowledge in the Benguela ecosystem in Southern Africa. Marine Policy
60 287-292
2010. Transdisciplinary co-operation for an ecosystem approach to fisheries: A case study from the South African sardine fishery. Marine Policy
34 (4) 782-794
2015. The fire and the eye: Fishers knowledge, echo-sounding and the invention of the skipper in the St. Helena Bay pelagic fishery ca. 1930–1960. Marine Policy
60 300-308
2012. Fisheries and Aquaculture industry in Namibia.
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| Fisheries and Aquaculture industry in Namibia.pdf | 884.48 KB |
2001. A decade of exploitation and management of the Namibian hake stocks. South African Journal of Marine Science
23 307-315
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| A decade of exploitation and management of the Namibian hake stocks_2010.pdf | 292.67 KB |
2009. Policy Statement (guidelines) for the granting of rights to harvest marine resources and the allocation of fishing quotas, July 2009.
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| Policy Statement_Guidelines for Granting of Rights to Harvets Marine Resources.pdf | 136.54 KB |
2005. Sustainable management initiatives for the southern African hake fisheries over recent years. Bulletin of Marine Science 76 (2) 287-320
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| Sustainable management initiatives for the southern African hake fisheries over recent years.pdf | 4.95 MB |
2001. Evaluation of a class of possible simple interim management procedures for the Namibian Hake Fishery. South African Journal of Marine Science 23 357-374
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| Evaluation of a class of possible simple interim management procedures for the Namibian Hake Fishery.pdf | 156.29 KB |
2012. Temporal and spatial patterns in the abundance of jellyfish in the northern Benguela upwelling ecosystem and their link to thwarted pelagic fishery recovery.
African Journal of Marine Science 34 (1) 131-146