This document summarises the information available on the habits of fishes in floodplain regions of the Sepik and Ramu River systems, Papua New Guinea, with respect-to project PNG/85/001

This document provides background information for project PNG/85/001. A synthesis of knowledge of various aspects of the Sepik and Ramu River catchments is provided. The information is presented in relation to project objectives and activities. Most sections have been summarised from existing books and other information (quoted where relevant) but have been placed within the context of the Sepik and Ramu rivers and project PNG/85/001. The subjects covered here are relevant to fisheries related matters and this is explained later in the Discussion section.

En ouvrant la 8e session du Comit FAO de la mise en valeur des forts dans les tropiques, qui a sig Rome au milieu de septembre 1987 (voir Le monde forestier), M. D.J. Walton, Directeur gnral adjoint de la FAO, a tabli un parallle entre la situation de la foresterie aujourd'hui et celle de l'agriculture pendant les annes 70. C'est seulement lorsque les responsables extrieurs au secteur agricole se sont rendu compte du cot social et conomique de l'abandon de ce secteur que les choses ont commenc changer.

This paper analyses briefly the reasons why enclosures of the rangelands is taking place, the short and long term impact on different groups, and the technical and environmental issues. Examples are given from Kenya and Somalia.

Research report

In response to government concerns, FAO has begun to develop more information on the nature of small forest enterprises, their contributions to rural incomes, the constraints that hold the small entrepreneur back, and the opportunities that strengthening this sector hold for improved rural incomes. An initial step was the commissioning of a number of case-studies.

L'article principal de ce numro, O en est l'amnagement des forts tropicales?, est le troisime d'une srie traitant de l'amnagement des forts tropicales humides. Dans cet article, M. R. Schmidt, forestier la FAO, examine les aspects techniques de l'amnagement des forts tropicales naturelles partir des tudes et rapports rcents de la FAO sur les projets nationaux, achevs ou en cours, ayant bnfici de l'aide de la FAO dans ce domaine.

Small-scale forest-based processing enterprises comprise an important, but neglected, part of the forestry and forest industries sector. They process a large part of the raw materials from the forest and supply some of the main markets for forest products, in particular in the rural areas of developing countries.

Japanese coastal fishermen have legally-guaranteed equitable access to and “ownership” of the living aquatic resources of coastal waters, through an elaborate fisheries rights system. In Japan no conceptual distinction exists between land holdings and land tenure and sea holdings, or sea tenure, and fisheries enjoy a legal status equal to that of land ownership. Sea tenure in Japanese coastal fisheries is a complex subject that is little known in the West.

El principal articulo de este nmero de Unasylva, titulado Ordenacin de los bosques higrofticos tropicales: informe actualizado, es el tercero de una serie dedicada a esa ordenacin. En el articulo, R. Schmidt, Oficial de montes de la FAO, examine los aspectos tcnicos de la ordenacin de los, bosques tropicales naturales, pasando revista a los recientes estudios e informes de la FAO sobre proyectos anteriores y actuales de ordenacin de bosques tropicales realizados por los gobiernos con asistencia de la Organizacin.