Ayamaru lake is one of the lakes in West Papua categorized as karst lake. It is endowed with fish diversity in various ornamental fish and consumption fish with high economic value. Recently, a number of floating net cages ...

Inland fisheries are not often a priority in national and regional governance, being undervalued and overlooked, although it is recognized as important to food security, livelihoods, and human well-being. In inland waters, ...

The rapid population decline of temperate eels and the listing of some anguillid eel species, i.e. Anguilla anguilla and A. japonica in the CITES Appendices, have led to the increase in the market value of tropical eels ...

The SEAFDEC Inland Fishery Resources Development and Management Department (SEAFDEC/IFRDMD) has been mandated to “monitor the state of exploitation and utilization of inland fishery resources and to come up with scientific ...

In Indonesia, the giant featherback (Chitala lopis) is an economically important freshwater fish. However, this fish has been overfished due to its high demand. For the sustainability of the fishery resource, the Government ...

Indonesia is an archipelagic country with land area that is approximately two-thirds of the its waters, and embraces 7,508 large and small islands with a coastline that stretches to a total of about 81,000 km (Bengen, ...

The Southeast Asian region is endowed with enormous areas of inland waters resources, such as rivers, lakes, floodplains, reservoirs, dams, and wetlands. Fisheries in inland waters have long been a vital component of food ...

Indonesia is endowed with rich anguillid eel resources. The women are engaged in the whole fish value chain; however, their participation in eel fisheries has often been overlooked. To understand the roles of women and men ...