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Monitoring of tropical freshwater fish resources for sustainable use
Author(s) -
Elliott Vittoria L.,
Chheng Phen,
Uy Sophorn,
Holtgrieve Gordon W.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of fish biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1095-8649
pISSN - 0022-1112
DOI - 10.1111/jfb.13974
Subject(s) - biodiversity , fishery , biology , environmental resource management , ecosystem , freshwater fish , sustainable development , corporate governance , ecology , sustainable management , fish <actinopterygii> , sustainability , environmental planning , business , geography , environmental science , finance
Tropical freshwater ecosystems are some of the world's most biodiverse and productive systems where determining what sustainable exploitation of inland fisheries looks like is particularly challenging. One of the greatest obstacles to sustainable management is collecting and using quality data on fish production and yield. The biodiversity and hydro‐ecology of these systems often under open‐access governance, add to the complexity of managing them. This paper describes an integrated citizen‐science, earth observation, environmental DNA and independent survey approach to collecting fish and fisheries data, using the Cambodian Mekong as a case study.