Services and Expertise

General Project Development, Management and Assessment

· Project concept and design development.

· Proposal writing, including development and preparation of log frames and budgets.

· Preparation of inception and interim reports.

· Project monitoring and impact assessment.

 

Monitoring Programme and Survey Design

· Design of integrated and cost-effective data collection strategies to meet management and development objectives and obligations.

· Power analysis and optimal allocation of sampling effort.

· Frame and catch assessment surveys (CAS).

· Biological sampling programmes.

· Socio-economic baseline surveys and routine monitoring                  programmes including PRA and RRA methods.

· Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PME).

· Environmental monitoring programmes.

 

Population Parameter Estimation (Stock Assessment)

· Population size estimation by removal (depletion), mark-recapture, and VPA methods.

· Age or length-based estimation of growth model (von Bertalanffy,                  Gompertz) parameters.

· Natural and fishing mortality rate estimation.

· Reproductive behaviour including estimation of length at maturity, spawning season, and fecundity.

· Estimation of stock-recruitment model parameters.

· Net selectivity.

· Migration studies

 

Management Advice and Modelling

· Stakeholder analysis.

· Formulation of management plans.

· Estimation of target and limit reference points of biomass-dynamics(surplus production), yield-per-recruit and age-structured population dynamics models.

· Advice on input (effort and technical measures) and output controls to meet target and limit reference points.

· Management obligations including reporting responsibilities.

· Adaptive Management.

 

Empirical Modelling

· Generalised Fishery Development Modelling (GFDM)

· Bayesian belief network models

· Potential yield models (based upon among fishery comparisons or    life history invariants).

 

Other Assessments

· Institutional Analysis and Design (IAD).

· Sustainable Livelihoods Analysis (SLA).

 

Assessment of Environmental and Anthropogenic Effects on Species Diversity and Assemblages

· Biodiversity assessment.

· Multivariate analyses (cluster analysis, and ordination methods e.g. Multi-dimensional scaling, principal components analysis, and                  Correspondence    Analysis (CA) using PRIMER and CANOCO                  software).

 

Assessment of hydrology (and climate) changes on fish populations

· Development of population models to explore the impacts of changes to hydrological conditions in rivers, lakes and reservoirs on fish                  population parameters e.g. exploitable biomass, population age                  structure, mean size of individuals…etc resulting from climate change, abstractions, diversions, and hydraulic engineering structures.

 

Tagging Mystus nemurus catfish in Indonesia

Length frequency sampling in Bangladesh

A fishing community in Bangladesh

A small fish market on  the streets of Patna, India

Fishermen exploiting fish migrations through a sluice gate in Bangladesh