Subject coverage Duration of studies Age of studies Information accessibility

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3.8.2 Subject coverage

Most of the reports that were examined discuss on general fisheries perspective in Tanzania 62 references. Several discuss the biological aspects of fish 28 references and about 47 references present information on specific fisheries such as the shark fisheries or the demersal fisheries in Tanzania. About 10 references present information on socio-economic aspects of fisheries. Fisheries development is discussed in about 15 references. Conservation issues, marine parks and integrated management of fisheries is discussed in 67 references Figure 5. It is important to note that there significant overlaping in these subjects so the large number of references should not be misleading. Fishery development 43 Biology 5 Taxonomy 5 Coral reefs 14 Conservation 8 Marine park 6 Status of Resource 5 Management 3 Surveys 4 Gear Technology 5 Aquaculture 2 Figure 3.5: Subject categories in fisheries research.

3.8.3 Duration of studies

Most of the studies were of short term. There is therefore a need to repeat these studies over a longer duration. The only long-term study, which is still ongoing, is the Matemwe and Mkokotoni fish monitoring study.

3.8.4 Age of studies

76 There are several new studies, however, most of these new studies are of short term and have been conducted by students geared at giving them grades in their subjects. They are not geared at problem solving. However, a lot of surveys, which were quite useful, were conducted in the 1980s. Ever since that time no surveys have been conducted,. Also some of the useful studies have been conducted in the early 1960s and 1970s under the East Africa marine fisheries organisation.

3.8.5 Information accessibility

Almost 50 of the information is difficult to access as it is in the form of unpublished reports. In most cases only one copy of the report exists and it is based with the author. Figure 6 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 Book Video Proceeding Journal Report Presentation Occurrence , Figure 3.6: Information presentation by researchers.

3.9 Recommendations for future work