Participatory approaches to reservoir fisheries management: issues; challenges & policies

This monograph consists of a collection of presentations made at the Symposium, “Participatory approaches to reservoir fisheries management: issues, challenges and polices” which was held in Dambulla, Sri Lanka on 3-6 October 2004, and the set of recommendations deliberated. As these papers are essentially based on comprehensive scientific studies, the findings are of immense importance to researchers, academics and students working in the field of reservoir fisheries management. Most importantly, symposium recommendations are useful not only in the national context but also in the global scenario, to policy makers and managers of the inland aquaculture constitute a great potential for food security of rural communities in the low income, food deficit countries. Edited by MJS Wijeyaratne and US Amarasinghe