Publications

Journals

Halls, A.S., Welcomme, R, L. & Burn, R.W.  (2006).  The relationship between multispecies catch and effort: among fishery comparisons.  Fisheries Research 77: 78-83. Sept 2003.

Shankar, B., Halls, A.S., & Barr, J.  (2005).  The Effects of Surface Water Abstraction for Rice Irrigation on Floodplain Fish Production in Bangladesh.   International Journal of Water 6: 61-68.

Shankar, B., Halls, A.S., & Barr, J.  (2004).  Rice versus fish revisited: on the integrated management of floodplain resources in Bangladesh. Natural Resources Forum, 28: 91-101.

Halls, A.S. & Welcomme, R.L.  (2004) Dynamics of river fish populations in response to hydrological conditions: A simulation study. River Research and Applications. 16: 985-1000.

Craig, J.F., Halls, A.S., Barr, J., & Bean, C.W.  (2004).  The Bangladesh Floodplain Fisheries Fisheries Research  66: 271-286.

Pilling, G. & Halls, A.S. (2003) Age-or length-based population parameter estimation techniques: What drives the choice? NAGA 26 (2).

Hoggarth, D.D., Aeron-Thomas, M., Garaway, C., Koeshendrajana, S., Sarnita, A., & Halls, A.S.  (2003).  An integrated assessment of Indonesian river fishery reserves. Indonesian Fisheries Research Journal (IFRJ) 9 (1): 1-26.

Halls, A.S., Kirkwood, G.P. and Payne, A.I. (2001).  A dynamic pool model for floodplain-river fisheries. Ecohydrology and Hydrobiology , 1 (3): 323-339.

Welcomme, R.L., & Halls, A.S.  (2001).  Some considerations of the effects of differences in flood patterns on fish populations.  Ecohydrology and Hydrobiology, 1 (3): 313-321.

Halls, A. S., Debnath, K., Kirkwood, G.P. & Payne, I. A. (2000).  Density-dependent recruitment of Puntius sophore, in floodplain waterbodies in Bangladesh.  Journal of Fish Biology, 56: 905-914.

Halls, A.S. (2000).  Recruitment Dynamics of the Bangladeshi Swamp Barb.  DFID Natural Resources News, No.16, March, 2000.

Halls, A.S., Hoggarth, D.D. & Debnath, D.  (1999)  Impacts of hydraulic engineering on the dynamics and production potential of floodplain fish populations in Bangladesh. Fisheries Management and Ecology 6: 261-285.

Hoggarth, D.D., Halls, A.S., Dam, R. K. & Debnath, K. (1999) Recruitment Sources for fish stocks inside a floodplain river impoundment in Bangladesh. Fisheries Management and Ecology 6: 287-310.

Halls, A.S., Hoggarth, D.D. & Debnath, D.  (1998) Impact of flood control schemes on river fish migrations and species assemblages in Bangladesh. Journal of Fish Biology 53 (Suppl. A), 358-380.

Halls, A.S. & Azim, M.E. (1998).  The utility of visible implant (VI) tags for marking tropical river fish. Fisheries Management and Ecology  5: 71-80.

Hoggarth, D.D. & Halls, A.S. (1997).  Restocking the floodplains from natural sources.  Aquaculture News 23, 25-27.

 

FAO Fisheries Technical Papers

Halls, A. S., Arthur, R., Bartley, D., Felsing, M., Grainger, R., Hartmann, W., Lamberts, D., Purvis, J; Sultana, P., Thompson, P., Walmsley, S. (2005).  Guidelines for Designing Data Collection and Sharing Systems for Co-Managed Fisheries.  Part I:  A Practical Guide.  FAO Fisheries Technical Paper.  No. 494/1.  Rome, FAO. 2005. 42p.

Halls, A. S., Arthur, R., Bartley, D., Felsing, M., Grainger, R., Hartmann, W., Lamberts, D., Purvis, J; Sultana, P., Thompson, P., Walmsley, S. (2005).  Guidelines for Designing Data Collection and Sharing Systems for Co-Managed Fisheries.  Part II:  Technical Guidelines.  FAO Fisheries Technical Paper.  No. 494/2.  Rome, FAO. 2005. 108p.

Hoggarth, D.D., Abeyasekera, S., Arthur, R., Beddington, J.R., Burn, R.W., Halls, A.S., Kirkwood, G.P., McAllister, M., Medley, P., Mees, C.C., Parkes, G.B., Pilling, G.M., Wakeford, R.C., and Welcomme, R.L.  (2005). Stock Assessment for Fishery Management – A Framework Guide to the use of the FMSP Fish Stock Assessment Tools.  FAO Fisheries Technical Paper. No. 487. Rome, FAO, 259 pp., CD-ROM.

Hoggarth, D.D., Cowan, V.J.,  Halls, A.S.,  Aeron-Thomas, M., McGregor, A.J., Garaway, C.A., Payne, A.I. & Welcomme, R.L. (1999).  Management Guidelines for Asian Floodplain River Fisheries. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper, 384/1&2 FAO, Rome 63pp & 117pp.

 

Book Chapters and Conference Proceedings

M-C. Badjeck, W.N. Adger, E.H. Allison, K.Brown, D. Conway, N. Dulvy, A. S. Halls, A. Perry and J.D. Reynolds (in press).  Climate change impacts on fish stocks and fisheries: vulnerability and adaptation of fisherfolk.  Proceedings of the Climate Change & Aquatic Systems Conference, July 21-23 2004, University of Plymouth, UK.

Arthington, A.H., Lorenzen , K., Pusey, B.J., Abell R., Halls, A.S., Winemiller K.O., Arrington D.A., Baran E. (2003b). River fisheries: ecological basis for management and conservation. In R. Welcomme and T. Petr (eds) Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on the Management of Large Rivers for Fisheries Volume 1.

B. Shankar, A. S. Halls, J. Barr and M. Rahman (2002). Management strategies to improve Floodplain livelihoods in Bangladesh: Some modelling results.  Proceedings of the Wetlands Conference, IUCN, Bangladesh, July 2002.

Halls, A.S. (2001).  Population Dynamics and Stock Assessment. In Welcomme, R.L. (ed) Inland Fisheries: Ecology and Management.  Fishing News Books, Blackwell Scientific, Oxford, 358pp.

Halls, A.S., Hoggarth, D.D. & Debnath, D.  (2000)  Impacts of hydraulic engineering on floodplain fish populations in Bangladesh: Implications for Management.  In Cowx, I.G (ed.) Management and Ecology of River Fisheries, pp 201-217, Fishing News Books, Oxford.

 

Papers Submitted

Allison E.H., Perry A.L., Badjeck M.C., Adger W.N., Brown, K., Conway, D., Halls, A.S., Pilling, G.M, Reynolds, J.D., & Dulvy, N.K.  Global Vulnerability of Fisheries to Climate Change.  Submitted to Science (March 2006).

Burn, R. & Halls, A.S.  Factors Contributing to successful management of artisanal fisheries – a comparative approach using Bayesian network models.  Submitted to Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

 

Papers in Preparation

Halls, A.S., Shankar, B. & Barr, J.  Fish out of water: Modelling tradeoffs between Agriculture and fisheries in the floodplains of Bangladesh.  To be submitted to Fisheries Research.

Lorenzen K., De Graaf G. & Halls, A.S. A biomass dynamics model for assessing interactions between fisheries and water management in highly seasonal water bodies.

Halls, A.S., Debnath, K., Kirkwood, G.P. and Payne, A.I. A cautionary note on the use of depletion estimates of population size. To be submitted to Fisheries Research. 

Halls, A.S. & Huq, S.  Predicted Impacts of Climate Change on Fisher Livelihoods in Bangladesh.  To be submitted to Climate Change.

 

 

Reports

 

More than 30 Project Reports for the EU, DFID, Environment Agency and private clients (see cv on page 2)