... MRC Fisheries Monitoring Programmes intheLowerMekong Basin Page 24Integrated Analysis of Data from MRC Fisheries Monitoring Programmes intheLowerMekong Basin Page 26Plate 3 Fishers in ... 6 The Location of the Lee trap shery monitoring programme in southern Lao PDRIntegrated Analysis of Data from MRC Fisheries Monitoring Programmes intheLowerMekong Basin Page 4Figure 1 The ... monitor thestatusand trends inthe sheries inthelowerMekong basin: 1. The Dai Fishery Monitoring Programme (DFMP), Tonle Sap, Cambodia (1994–2010); 2. The Lee Trap Monitoring Programme...
... Aquaculture intheLowerMekong Basin 30Aquaculture is unevenly developed intheMekong Basin. Most production takes place inthe Mekong Delta in Viet Nam andthe Korat Plateau in Northeast Thailand. There ... livelihoods in theLowerMekong Basin. 2. Status of aquacultureAquaculture intheMekongBasin is a diverse activity. It encompasses breeding, rearing and sale offish fry and fingerlings, and growing ... Aquaculture intheLowerMekong Basin 29 Status ofaquaculture in the LowerMekong Basin 1.1 BackgroundAquaculture is a diverse and important rural activity intheLowerMekong Basin. It encompassesproduction...
... households in theLowerMekongBasin are involved in fisheries, both fortheir own consumption and for sale. Women and children arevery active inthe fishery, in both catching and processing/marketing. ... considerablystrengthen the arguments for sustaining aquatic biodiversity in the Mekong. 1BIODIVERSITY ANDFISHERIESINTHEMEKONG RIVER BASIN Mekong Development Series No. 2May 2003Published in Phnom ... promoting sustainablemanagement of fisheries, including attention tobiodiversity needs. In addition to the 1995 Agreement onSustainable Development of theMekong River Basin, these instruments include...
... them in many other activities including harvesting, cutting roots and drying and collecting cassava chips. The difference in margin is not big enough for them to try other options. If family inputs ... agents and processing factories. As illustrated in Figure 4.1, the cassava marketing chain has many layers, with the collectors and traders serving as the main intermediaries between farmers and ... planting and continues for 25 to 30 years. After 30 years, a decline in latex makes further tapping uneconomic. The trees are then removed and replaced with new seedlings (Mead 2001). The older...
... significant increase in rainfall in wet season resulting in an increase in river flow. By contrast, the decreasing trend of river flow in dry season is a consequence of the decline of rainfall and increase ... basin falls entirely in Thua Thien - Hue Province and is of great economic and tourism importance for the province. The river basin is expected to be one of the most vulnerable basins in ... for construction and protection of infrastructure in low-lying areas; and (5) Increased pollution of the aquatic environment inthe coastal zone and salinity intrusion of the Huong River lead...
... Sites The environmental setting of the McKenzie River basin and a discussion of sampling sites inthebasin have been previously reported in McCarthy and others (2009) and Kelly and others ... polar organic chemical integrative sampler (POCIS)—are being used to address these particular challenges. Both the SPMD (Huckins and others, 2006) and POCIS (Alvarez and others, 2004, 2007) samplers ... Laboratory Methods, and Quality Assurance The methods used to collect, prepare, and analyze samples and to assure the quality of the data are presented in detail in McCarthy and others (2009). Methods...
... SUBBASINDANFORTHBROOKSUBBASINELIZABETHBROOKSUBBASINFORT POND BROOKSUBBASINTAYLOR BROOKSUBBASINSPENCER BROOKSUBBASINNASHOBA BROOKSUBBASINASSABET MAIN STEM LOWER SUBBASINASSABET MAIN STEMUPPER SUBBASINSTIRRUP ... streamflow in September inthe Assabet River about doubled at the outlet of the Main Stem Headwaters subbasin and increased by about 4 percent at the outlet of the Main Stem Upper subbasin. These increases ... ground-water-flow system in subbasins of the A, Assabet River Main Stem; and B, tributary subbasins, in a hypothetical scenario of increased withdrawals and discharges inthe Assabet River Basin. . . . ....
... Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. The Council is administered jointly by both Academies andthe Institute ... users inthe UpperKlamath Basin under contract with the USBR. After the listing of suckers in 1988 and coho in 1997, the USBR was required to assess the potentialimpairment of these fishes inthe ... support for increased minimum flows in the Klamath River main stem. Although the proposed higher flows are intended toincrease the amount of habitat inthe main stem, the increase in habitat...
... seizure, that wouldinhibit exercise in a standing position. Informed consentwas obtained before testing and all protocols wereapproved by the local institutional review boards. The clinical characteristics ... shown in Table 1.InstrumentationEach subject was placed in a custom setup that allowed for the study of strength and coordination of the lower extremities in a standing posture (Figure 1). The ... of the hip, flexion of the knee, and flex-ion and eversion of the ankle) [16,17] with varying levelsof completeness [18] and dominance [19].Much of the literature attempting to quantify these...
... 0.089). Two studies examined an interaction between the T19007C polymorphism and cigarette smoking. When stratified by smoking status, the interaction between smoking andthe polymorphism was ... essen-tial for the two incision steps in NER. The ERCC5/XPG nuclease has been suggested to act on the single-stranded region created as a result of the combined action of the XPB helicase andthe ERCC2/XPD ... position -4 preceding the AUG codon may affect ribosomal bind-ing and thus alter the efficiency of XPA protein syn-thesis. To investigate whether the transition from G to A changes the translation...
... utilized inthe next year. Based on these findings, a management method adequate to obtain the biomass of the giant reed and maintain the wetland potential is proposed as shown in Fig. 10. In this ... whole plants including the roots and rhizomes are cropped except for the roots and rhizomes remaining for the next year. Thereafter, the giant reeds grow with the rhizome extension, andthe giant ... experiment using radioactive phosphorus indicated that the decreasing of phosphorus inthe leaves occurred inthe order of location from the bottom to the top, which is relevant to the order of dying...