ABSTRACT
Capture fisheries play a significant role in meeting the nutritional requirements of the population and achieving the Millennium Development Goals. In developed countries, sustainability is maintained through catch quota/Total Allowable Catch (TAC) and the same principle is made easier by implementation of Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs). Exploitation of juvenile fish results in considerable economic loss and also causes serious damage to the fish stock in terms of long-term sustainability of the resources. A minimum legal size (MLS) is seen as a fisheries management tool with the ability to protect juvenile fish, maintain spawning stocks and control the sizes of fish caught. Monitoring, control and surveillance (MCS) system is one of the key components of fisheries management. Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) is the farming of selected species in a way that allows uneaten feed, waste, nutrients and by-products of one species to be recaptured and converted into feed and energy for other crops and/or marine animals farmed in the system.
