The User Manual of the Fisheries Resource Information System and Tools (FiRST) version 2000 documents the database system that was developed under ADB-RETA 5766. As envisioned, the database system contains extant trawl surveys and generic socioeconomic data, as well as catch and effort...

In Asia, the fisheries sector is important in terms of food security, livelihoods and foreign exchange earnings. However, as in many parts of the world, there are signs that capture fisheries are fully exploited or overfished. Management of fisheries in the region is often hampered by lack of...

A multiple regression model is derived, based on biomass estimates in 16 massbalance food web (Ecopath) models, which explains 68 % of the variation in the data at hand, and shows that the abundance of fish with trophic levels of 3.0 or more in the South China Sea area had declined, by 2000, to...

This article discusses difference between the newly released Compleat ELEFAN Software Packag (Vers. 1.1) (Gayanilo and Pauly 1989, Fishbyte 7(2): 20-21) and its predecessor (Vers 1.0). Also, a number of "bugs" found in Version 1.1 are documented; this led to releaase 1.11 which costs US$75.