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Poisson Metre Senegal
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INCOFISH Press release
Panukat Isda, Philippine Fishruler |
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| 20080117 |
INCOFISH Press release seafoodguide.mobi |
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Seafoodguide.mobi PPT show |
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Oceans Past: A Guide to Oceans Future, Book release |
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| 20071213 |
INCOFISH WP7 Press release IFM-Geomar:
Fisch im Handy
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| 20071112 |
INCOFISH WP2 Press release:
How much fish have we got? Shifting Baselines in fisheries management hinder a clear scientific view of the resource. |
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| 20070522 |
CRIA Pressrelease:
openModeller Desktop version 1.0.5 Released
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IFEET Pressrelease:
Baltic Sea fisheries research results
A workshop organized by Eurofish, 19th and 20th April 2007, Vilnius, Lithuania
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| 20070129 |
INCOFISH Pressrelease: ISFG: Tip of your tounge
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Power point on ISFG, International Seafood guide |
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ISFG Flyer |
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Latest Pressrelease:
INCOFISH PRESS RELEASE March 11 2008
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Panukat Isda: How to Catch More Fish in the Future
Los Baños, Laguna -- Why are markets overflowing with small fish nowadays? Where are the big fishes? Is there something we can do about managing fisheries? Can we get more of large fishes back?
To the last two questions, the answer is yes. But only if we don’t eat babies.
Baby fishes, that is. To help avoid catching and eating small fishes that now glut the market, the INCOFISH project based at the WorldFish Center, Los Baños, Laguna, has advised the use of Panukat Isda, a simple fish ruler to help fishers measure the minimum length of fish ready for harvest.
A useful tool for advanced fisheries management, Panukat Isda helps ensure that we have more fish for the future by simply avoiding catching and eating baby fishes.
Panukat Isda is easy to use. This flexible and sturdy plastic ruler easily rolls up and fits neatly in the pocket. It has printed pictures of five of the most common commercial species in the Philippines and indicates the minimum length of matured fish. Simply bring it with you to the market or to the retailers to check the length of fishes sold.
Panukat Isda is also used to teach fishers how to determine the minimum mesh size for their nets. Bigeye scad or Matangbaka, for example, should not be caught shorter than 14 centimeters to allow them to reproduce and add more to our fish harvest in the future. Peru has its own Panukat Isda, the Chikipez that now comes in five local varieties. The Panukat Isda can also be replicated for use by every fishing region of the Philippines to help guarantee good catches of large fish for our plates tomorrow.
A simple device essential in advancing fisheries management, the fish ruler helps by highlighting the importance of allowing fish to grow to adulthood and reproduce before they are caught. As it is with humans, there is a time in the lives of fishes when they reach the age of settling and having babies. This is a period called spawning, a time when fishes have grown to a certain length called the “length at first maturity”. This length varies for different fish species. Fish that are shorter than this length have not yet spawned, because they are not yet mature enough to do so. To ensure future supply of fish, we need to make sure we are not catching fish that are shorter than the length at first maturity. Taking immature fish out of the water means that there will be no new generation of fish to catch in the future. This problem is known as overfishing.
Overfishing is a global problem and the Philippine fish ruler, Panukat Isda, is joined by many other fish rulers around the world, many of them developed within the framework of the INCOFISH project. Work Package 1: Data, Tools and Outreach is one of ten subprojects of the large-scale research project INCOFISH, funded by the European Union and with scientific participation from 35 institutions and private enterprises from 22 nations worldwide. In the Philippines, the partner institutions are the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, and the National Fisheries Research and Development Institute.
INCOFISH envisions conducting specifically targeted strategic research in line with the goals set by the World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, such as restoring healthy fish stocks and ecosystems by 2015.
For a list of fish ruler samples, please visit this website:
http://www.incofish.org/Workpackages/WP7/WP7Fishrulers.php
The portal to information from INCOFISH is found at: www.incofish.org
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Additional Information:
Website: www.incofish.org
Don’t Eat Babies Tool: http://www.incofish.org/DontEatBabies.php
Fishrulers, Panukat Isda: http://www.incofish.org/Workpackages/WP7/WP7Fishrulers.php
seafoodguide.mobi: http://www.seafoodguide.mobi
Fisch im handy: http://www.FischImHandy.de.pdf
International Seafood Guide: http://www.incofish.org/ISFG.php
Aquamaps: http://www.aquamaps.org/
WP2 toolset: http://www.incofish.org/Workpackages/WP2/Toolset.php
Presskit: http://www.incofish.org/News/presskit.php
Contacts:
Rodolfo Reyes, Jr.
Research Analyst
WorldFish Center, Philippines
Tel. +63 2 8450563 loc. 2884; +63 49 5360168
r.reyes@cgiar.org
www.worldfishcenter.org
Mary Ann P. Bimbao, PhD
Executive Director
FishBase Information and Research Group, Inc.
Mobile: (0927)4362545
mpbimbao@yahoo.com
Malcolm I. Sarmiento, Jr.
Director
Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
Tel. +63 2 929-9597
msarmiento@bfar.da.gov.ph
www.bfar.da.gov.ph
Noel C. Barut
Interim Deputy Executive Director
National Fisheries Research and Development Institute
Tel.+63 2 372-5063
noel_barut@hotmail.com
www.nfrdi.da.gov.ph
Charlotta Järnmark
INCOFISH Work Package 1 Leader, Data, Tools and Outreach
cjarnmark@gmail.com
Tel. +46-8-6458483 (home)
Tel. +46-737857424 (CP Sweden)
Skypename:ljarnmark
www.incofish.org
Rainer Froese, PhD
INCOFISH Co-ordinator
Leibniz Institut für Meereswissenschaften
Tel. +49 431 600 4579
rfroese@ifm-geomar.de
http://filaman.uni-kiel.de/:fm-geomar/rfroese/
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