Improved fisheries productivity and management in tropical reservoirs

“Improved fisheries productivity and management in tropical reservoirs”

The objective of the project was to contribute to the current research on reservoirs enhancement

fisheries in tropical countries through the implementation of a series of action-research activities

implemented in two small reservoirs in the Indo-Gangetic basin in India, and two very large

reservoirs in Africa, the Lake Nasser (Egypt), and the Volta Lake (Ghana). Socio-institutional

analyses were also conducted in these reservoirs to improve our knowledge regarding some of the

main social processes that influence reservoir productivity. Overall the results of the project stress

that while the natural biophysical constraints of the reservoirs are important in defining the

ecological production processes, it is the socio-economic settings characterizing the

community/societies around the reservoirs that eventually shape the human production

enhancement possibilities.