Potential for poverty focused integration of aquaculture into irrigation systems in Batticaloa District
The visit highlighted the vital contribution of the inland fisheries sector to provision of basic food security within the uncleared area (farmers report very low consumption frequencies for all other fish or meat protein substitutes). A 30-mile system of Brackish water lagoons which demarcates the cleared and uncleared areas is the main source of retailed fish in the uncleared area. Second in importance is the inland tank fishery, where the bulk of production emanatesfrom 17 major irrigation reservoirs. [PDF contains 29 pages]
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| Format: | monograph biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling
2002
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| Subjects: | Fisheries, Agriculture, Sri Lanka, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/20686 |
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