Publications

The Sustainable Coastal Communities and Ecosystems (SUCCESS) Program falls under the Congressional biodiversity earmark, where it fits under the secondary code. These are programs and activities – site based or […]

The purpose of this economic analysis is to examine the costs and potential returns of constructing and operating a commercial milkfish pond in Tanzania in order to determine the economic […]

The national Seaweed Development Strategic Plan recently adopted by the Tanzanian government calls for expansion of seaweed farming which has proven to be an important income generator for coastal communities […]

Marine spatial planning is a way of improving decision making and delivering an ecosystem-based approach to managing human activities in the marine environment. It is a planning process that enables […]

The First Issue of the WIOMSA Magazine: People and the Environment is out! It has many interesting articles such as; Protection, Management and Development of the Coastal and Marine Environment […]

Many reef fishes aggregate at specific times and locations for the purpose of spawning. Spawning aggregations are vulnerable to overfishing, notably transient-type aggregations common to many groupers (Serranidae) and rabbitfishes […]

The MASMA sustainable dolphin tourism project was a collaborative research effort conducted between 2003 and 2006 with participants from Mozambique, South Africa, Sweden and Zanzibar. The objectives were to build […]

Sea cucumbers (Holothurians) are a group of marine invertebrates that are harvested worldwide in tropical and subtropical countries. Over the past decades, a significant increase in the demand for sea […]

This Annual Report highlights main activities undertaken by WIOMSA and its partners in 2006. The year 2006 will be remembered for many things, but the purchasing of the two-storey building […]

We are pleased to present the June, 2007 WIOMSA Newsbrief which covers an interesting array of articles: Increasing incidental catches of the rare Coelacanth: Time to act, Neptune Hotels, WIOMSA’s […]