Reports and Publications:

General Reports:

1: Laamu Atoll Mariculture Project: Seaweed Maricutlure, N. Reichenbach and S. Hlloway, Oceanographic Socitey of Maldives and Marine Research Centre, 45 pages, Download the report (PDF, 27.1 MB)

2: Longline Fishery (in Divehi), by Kanduvai Mohamed Manku, Published by BOBP, 2008. Download the book (1.29MB)

3: Country Review - Maldives. In: Review of the State of the World Marine Capture Fisheries Management: Indian Ocean (2007?). Download the report 173KB

4: A compilation of reported fish kills in the Maldives (July - December 2007), Marine Research Centre, Male, Maldives 32 pages, (2007). Download the report (4.6MB)

Maldives Marine Research Bulletin:

MMRB Vol 1 (PDF 0.75 MB)

MMRB Vol 2 (PDF 58 MB Large file! )

MMRB Vol 3 (PDF 65 MB Very large file!)

MMRB Vol 4 (PDF 1.1 MB)

MMRB Vol 5 (PDF 38.5 MB Large file!)

MMRB Vol 6 (PDF 8.11 MB)

MMRB Vol 7 (PDF 0.72 MB)

MMRB Vol 8 (PDF 1.8 MB)

Tuna Fishery

1:Estimating tag shedding for skipjack tuna, Katsuwonus pelamis, off Maldives, Fisheries Bulletin 2001. Download the paper 46KB

2: Population dynamics and movements of skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) in the Maldivian fishery: analysis of tagging data from an advection diffusion reaction model, Aquatic Living Resources (2002). Download the paper 372KB

3: Handline Large Yellowfin fishery of the Maldives - Paper Presented at the Working Party on Tropical Tunas, Indian Ocean Tuna Commission, Mombasa, Kenya (2009). Download the paper (692KB)

4: Country Report on Fisheries and Statistics in the Maldives. Report Prepared for IOTC, 2003. Dowload the report 1.7MB

Reef Fishery

1: Review of Aquarium Trade of Maldives with Proposals for Monitoring and Regulation, Marine Research Centre, 35 pp. (1995). Download PDF copy 194 Kb

2:A review of the status of the shark fishery of the Maldives, Marine Research Centre, 30 page (Download the PDF copy 304 Kb)

3: Status of the Shark Fishery 2009, in Divehi. (Download the PDF copy 1.8MB)

4: Review of the Aquarium fishery of the Malives 2003. Marine Research Centre, Download the report (PDF 415 Kb)

4: Review of grouper fishery fo the Maldives with notes on the fishery of Faafu Atoll,Marine Research Centre. Download the report (PDF 1MB)

5: Review of the Reef fisheries of the Maldives (2008), Marine Research Centre, Download the rport, 2.89MB

Coral Reef Monitoring

1: Zahir, H Status of Coral Reefs of Maldives after bleaching event in 1988, Hussein Zahir, CORDIO Reports 2002. Download the paper 95Kb

2: Assessing bioerosion and its effects on reef structure followin a bleaching event in the Maldives. Hussein Zahir, CORDIO Reports (?), Download the paper, 135Kb

3: Status of Coral Reefs of Maldives, Status Report, 2002, CORDIO Reports (?), Download the paper 235 Kb.

4: Spatial and temporal patterns of coral recrutiment follwoing the severe bleaching event in the Maldives, Zahir et al, CORDIO, 2002. Download the paper, 167kb

5: Post-tsunami status of the coral reefs of the islands and atoll of the Maldives. Zahir et al. 2006. CORDIO Status Reports, Download the report, 693kb

6: Assessment of Maldivian Coral Reefs in 2009 after Natural Disasters, Zahir, Quinn and Cargilia (2010). Marine Research Centre, 64pp. Download the Report. 6.1Mb

Livebait

1: Anderson, R.C. (1983). Livebait fishing in the Maldives. Rasain, 3:181-178. Download (277KB)

2: Anderson, R.C and Hafiz, A. (1984). Livebait fishes of Maldives. Rasain, 4:192-188. Download (277KB)

3: Anderson, R.C. (1994). The size of the Maldivian tuna livebait fishery, Rasain, 14:208-203 Download (292KB)

4: Anderson, R.C. and Saleem, M.R. (1994). Seasonal and regional variation in livebait utilization in the Maldives, Rasain 14: 182-62. Download (1.12MB)

5: Anderson, R.C. and Saleem, M.R. (1995). Inter-annual variations in Livebait utilization in the Maldives, Rasain, 15:216-193. Download (2.12MB)

6: Anderson, R.C. (1997). The Maldivian tuna livebait fishery -status and trends. In: Nickerson, D.J. and Maniku, M.H. (eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on Integrated Reef Resources Management in the Maldives. Pages 69-92. Download (977KB)

7: MRC (2007) Report of the lightbait fishing study tour to Japan (in Divehi). Download 771Kb.

8: Anderson, R. C. (2009). Livebait Component - Final Report. Maldives Environmental Management Project (MEMP), Technical Assistance to Baitfish Monitoring, 33 pages. December 2009. Download (413KB)

Mariculture

Report of the works relating to research and development of mariculture in Bodumohoraa, Vaavu Atoll, in Divehi (Download the report 2.7MB)

Ithaamuiy Aalaa Kurumuge Aiymatheefoi (in Divehi). Handbook of Culture of Pearls (Download the report 3.29 MB)

Cetaceans

Ballance L.T., R.C.Anderson, R.L.Pitman, K.Stafford, A.Shaan, Z.Waheed and R.L.Brownell (2001) Cetacean sightings around the Republic of Maldives, April 1998. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, 3(2): 213-218. Download the paper 80Kb

Anderson R.C. (2005) Observations of cetaceans in the Maldives, 1990-2002.Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, 7(2): 119-135.Download the paper 537Kb

Anderson R.C., A.Shaan and Z.Waheed (1999) Records of cetacean 'strandings'from the Maldives. Journal of South Asian Natural History 4(2): 187-202, Download the paper 2.5MB

Anderson R.C., R. Clark, P.T. Madsen, C. Johnson, J. Kiszka and O. Breysse (2006) Observations of Longman's beaked whale (Indopacetus pacificus) in the western Indian Ocean. Aquatic Mammals, 32(2): 223-231. Download the paper 3.0Mb

MRC Annual Reports

1: MRC Annual Report - 2006 (in Divehi), Download the report 1.0MB

2: MRC Annaul Report - 2007 (in Divehi), Download the report 779KB

3: MRC Annual Report - 2008 (in Divehi), Download the report 1.15MB

4. MRC Annual Report - 2009 (in Divehi), Download the report, 5.77MB

Miscellaneous

Anderson, RC (2009). Do dragonflies migrate across the western Indian Ocean? Journal of Tropical Ecology 25: 347-348, Download the publication 754Kb

Anderson, R.C (1998). Submarine topography of Maldivian Atolls suggest a sea-level of 130 meters below present at teh last glacial maxium, Coral Reefs. 17: 339-341. Download the publication 449Kb

For other MRC publication:Please contact Librarian or email infor@mrc.gov.mv

Fishes of the Maldives Second Edition (2003). Download the book (25 MB)

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