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| | This topic focuses on the use of GIS - Geographic Information Systems - in fisheries research and as an aid to fisheries management. | | | |
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|  | | | | Title | Livelihood improving functions of pond based integrated agriculture aquaculture systems
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| | Author(s) / Editor(s) | Van Brakel, M.L.; Morales, E.J.; Danai Turongruang; Little, D.C. | | Description | A pattern of major temporal and spatial variation in the availability of wild fish is apparent in both northeast Thailand and Cambodia (AIT Aqua Outreach Program). The climate and resulting fluctuations in annual flooding appear to be the main determinants influencing the abundance of wild fish. This is the likely cause of an observed trend in expansion and then contraction of interest in aquaculture with demand for aquaculture being strongest in areas with poorer water resources and a shortage of wild fish. Stocking fish in these areas is characterized by minimum inputs of both feed and labour in a context of high levels of out-migration and an aging farm population. Relatively extensive trap pond systems, found in rice based agriculture systems throughout northeast Thailand and Cambodia, and more intensive pond-dike Integrated Agriculture Aquaculture systems (IAAs), which are well developed in Sisaket province, northeast Thailand, offer options for diversification of rice based farming systems, thus enhancing food security. Understanding as to where and why aquatic resource management takes the form it does in Sisaket province, similar areas where these systems can improve aquatic resource management as a focus for rural development in Cambodia are identified. Evidence from AOP studies, supported by Remote Sensing (RS), Geographic Information System (GIS) and survey data, suggests that such conditions prevail over considerable areas of rural Cambodia. PDF file/ | | Keywords | INTEGRATED AQUACULTURE; POND CULTURE; GIS | | Geography Keywords | SOUTH EAST ASIA; THAILAND; CAMBODIA | | Content Language(s) | English | | File Location | | |
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| Publication Date | December 2003 | |
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