Current status, issues and applications of GIS to inland fisheries
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Abstract
This chapter is concerned with GIS applications made to inland fisheries. These include fisheries in freshwater rivers, lakes and reservoirs. Although these GIS applications have increased rapidly since the late 1980s, this area of fish production receives less attention than either aquaculture or marine fisheries. This is probably because inland fisheries are often practised in remote areas, at a semi-subsistence level, or are recreational in many developed countries, and data on most aspects of the fisheries are scattered, fragmented and frequently unsuited for use as inputs to GIS. The GIS-based inland fisheries work has concentrated on mapping the distribution and abundance of fish species and mapping and modelling habitats in rivers, reservoirs and lakes, and relating the two. Much of the material included in the chapter on inland fisheries comes from either Fisher and Rahel (2004) or from the series of symposium proceedings published by the Fishery-Aquatic GIS Research Group (Nishida and Caton, 2010).
| Publication type | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Book Chapter |
| Title | Current status, issues and applications of GIS to inland fisheries |
| Series number | T552 |
| Chapter | 9 |
| ISBN | 9789251073919 |
| Year Published | 2013 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Food and Agriculture Organizaiton of the United Nations |
| Publisher location | Rome, Italy |
| Contributing office(s) | Coop Res Unit Leetown |
| Description | 6 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Report |
| Larger Work Subtype | Organization Series |
| Larger Work Title | Advances in geographic information systems and remote sensing for fisheries and aquaculture: Summary version (FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper 552) |
| First page | 59 |
| Last page | 64 |
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