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Item Fishes and fisheries of Asian inland lacustrine waters(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK., 2015) Amarasinghe, U.S.; de Silva, S.S.In tropical Asia, there is a general paucity of natural lakes that are mainly located in the island states of the Philippines and Indonesia. Reservoir construction is extensive in the region primarily for irrigation, flood control and hydroelectricity generation, and fish production is essentially a secondary use of these reservoirs. Although the degree of endemism can in no way be equated to those in the great lakes of rift valley region of East Africa, familial diversity of fishes in Asia, but not species diversity, is considerably higher than in African lakes. Asia has a significant contribution to the world inland capture fisheries production of 11.5 × 106 t that is c. 69%. In most countries in Asia, the bulk of inland fisheries for food fish production occur in lacustrine waters, albeit productive riverine fisheries occur in the Lower Mekong Basin. Nevertheless, fisheries in multipurpose reservoirs are not fully appreciated compared to their other economic uses. Fisheries enhancement in lacustrine waterbodies in Asia through culture-based fisheries (CBF) is considered environmentally friendly due to low external inputs such as provision of supplementary feeds. There is a great potential for food fish production through CBF development in many parts of Asia. Hitherto, deterioration of water quality due to anthropogenic activities is less frequent in Asia than in other regions as local authorities are active in maintaining water quality in reservoirs used for multiple purposes. As reservoir water levels range from highly stable systems to highly fluctuating systems, a combination of flood pulses and mean depth can be used as a fish yield predictor in lakes and reservoirs. Approaches directed towards addressing both human and ecological well-being, in the lake and reservoir fisheries development strategies, are useful to combine the important aspects that are of ecological and societal interest. There is a paucity of studies on climate change impacts on inland fisheries, although some isolated studies are reported on specific aspects. Hence, there is a need to step up research on climate change impacts on inland fisheries for enabling adoption of mitigation and adaptive measuresItem Use of geographical information system and remote sensing techniques for planning culture‐based fisheries in non‐perennial reservoirs of Sri Lanka(Journal of Lakes & Reservoirs: Research & Management, 2014) Wijenayake, W.M.; Gunaratne, A.B.; de Silva, S.S.; Amarasinghe, U.S.The presence of a wide areal extent of small-sized village reservoirs offers a considerable potential for the development of culture-based fisheries (CBFs) in Sri Lanka. To this end, this study uses geographical information systems (GISs) and remote sensing (RS) techniques to determine the morphometric and biological characteristics most useful for classifying non-perennial reservoirs for CBF development and for assessing the influence of catchment land-use patterns on potential CBF yields. The reservoir shorelines at full water supply level were mapped with a Global Positioning System to determine shoreline length and reservoir areal extent. The ratio of shoreline length to reservoir extent, which was reported to be a powerful predictor variable of CBF yields, could be reliably quantified using RS techniques. The areal extent of reservoirs, quantified with RS techniques (RS extent), was used to estimate the ratio of forest cover plus scrubland cover to RS extent and was found to be significantly related to the CBF yield (R2 = 0.400; P < 0.05). The results of this study indicated that morphometric characteristics and catchment land-use patterns, which might be viewed as indices of biological productivity, can be quantified using RS and GIS techniques.