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Economic Impacts of Artificial Reefs on Small-Scale Fishers in Peninsular Malaysia

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  1. Viswanathan et al. (1996) investigated the economic impacts of ARs on the livelihoods of artisanal fishers in Peninsular Malaysia and concluded that ARs may only attract existing stocks without increasing fish biomass.

  2. In marine waters Terengganu fishers traditionally used floating objects with coconut fronds as fish aggregating devices (FADs) to catch pelagic fish species (Hung 1988).

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Alida Bundy of the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada for providing valuable comments on an earlier draft of this paper. The authors acknowledge financial support provided by the Department of Fisheries Malaysia for this study. The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance provided by the Department of Fisheries and Fisheries Development Authority during data collection. We thank the SEAFDEC/MFRDMD team for field support in Terengganu. We thank IMBIZO III Conference participants at National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India. Lastly, we are grateful to all the fishers who participated in our study.

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    Gazi Md Nurul Islam, Kusairi Mohd Noh, Shaufique Fahmi Sidique, Aswani Farhana Mohd Noh & Ahmad Ali

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Islam, G.M.N., Noh, K.M., Sidique, S.F. et al. Economic Impacts of Artificial Reefs on Small-Scale Fishers in Peninsular Malaysia. Hum Ecol 42, 989–998 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-014-9692-2

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