Integrating Fisheries into Irrigation Planning and Management

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4687
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Type:	Working Paper
Author:	Carriger, Sarah; Kurukulasuriya, Kingsley
Date:	2005
Agency:	International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Series:	Water Policy Briefing, no. 12
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4687
Sector:	Fisheries Water Resource & Irrigation
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Subject(s):	fisheries livelihoods irrigation planning participatory management
Abstract:	"Fisheries, the harvesting of wild fish and other aquatic animals, often play a valuable role in livelihood strategies that is not readily replaced by the development of irrigated agriculture. Despite this, the impacts of irrigation development and management on fisheries are seldom considered. Viewing fisheries and irrigation within an integrated and participatory management framework ensures that livelihoods and food security are enhanced rather than hurt by irrigation development. And it provides an opportunity to increase the overall productivity of irrigation systems-at little additional cost."

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