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Artificial reefs double income

author(s) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
from Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)
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  • Southern Asia
  • Asia
  • World
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CTA. 1989. Artificial reefs double income. Spore 24. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

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Abstract

Artisanal fishermen in Kerala, India, have built artificial reefs to attract fish back into their fishing grounds. As a result incomes have doubled. The fishing grounds off the coast of Kerala had been exhausted by commercial trawling, and the...

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