The Blue Millennium Project: Managing Fisheries for Biodiversity (2001)

The report was one of eight thematic reviews prepared for the Biodiversity Planning Support Program (BPSP), established by the United Nations Development Program and the United Nations Environment Program, with core financial support from the GEF. The BPSP was created to help countries strengthen national capacity to prepare and implement National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans in compliance with Article 6 of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Additional funding provided by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) made possible the addition of more case study authors and greater consideration of aquatic biodiversity issues in development.

The fisheries study presented here, coordinated by World Fisheries Trust, consists of three chapters and one Appendix. Its main audience is people in a position to affect national decisions and policies on the sustainable use of aquatic biodiversity.

Chapter 1: Synthesis Report- Biodiversity and Fisheries: A Primer for Planners is an overview of fisheries and biodiversity designed to give planners a good understanding of the most important issues and concepts. The primer includes a comprehensive Bibliography.

Chapter 2: Case Studies on Managing Fisheries for Biodiversity contains papers presented at the Thematic Workshop Blue Millennium: Managing Global Fisheries for Biodiversity, funded by UNEP and IDRC and held in Victoria, BC in June 2001.

Case Study Summaries

Complete Papers

• Reservoir Fisheries in the UPPER Paraná River Basin, Brazil: The Itaipu Reservior by Angelo Antonio Agostinho and Luiz Carlos Gomes
• Marine Protected Areas by A.C. Alcala
• Fisheries in the Mekong River by David Coates
• Community-based Protected Areas in the Small Island States of the Pacific by Kenneth T. MacKay
• Biodiversity Concerns in the Management of Inshore Fisheries in Barbados by Patrick McConney
• The Fisheries of Lake Victoria: Harvesting Biomass at the Expense of Biodiversity by Richard Ogutu-Ohwayo
• Participatory Management of Fisheries in the Brazilian Amazon by Mauro Luis Ruffino
• Seamount Fisheries in New Zealand: Effects on High-value Target Fish Species and Non-target Invertebrates by Peter Smith
• Mineral Extraction in a Pristine Tropical Watershed: Impacts of the Ok Tedi Mine on Fish and Fisheries in the Fly River Basin, Papua New Guinea by Stephen Swales
• Managing Namibia’s Marine Fisheries: A Decade of Rebuilding by Ben J. van Zyl
• Maintaining Biodiversity in Mixed-stock Salmon Fisheries in the Skeena Watershed: A 130-year History by Chris C. Wood

Chapter 3: Aquatic Biodiversity in National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans of Signatories to the Convention on Biological Diversity is a global overview of what individual nations are actually doing (or planning to do) in the area of aquatic biodiversity and fisheries.

Summaries for Countries with Significant Aquatic Biodiversity Concerns

Country Thematic Reviews

• Argentina to Colombia
• Congo to Maldives
• Mexico to Sri Lanka
• Tanzania to Zambia
  

Appendix: Useful Websites and Supplementary References provides additional resources.

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