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Item Open Access Economic and Ecological Analysis of the Cape Hatteras Area Closure in the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Fishery(2015-04-21) Ware, MeganAtlantic bluefin tuna are overfished and, consequently, NOAA is implementing a Cape Hatteras area closure to reduce catch in the longline fishery. The objective of this Masters Project was to investigate the ecological and economic impact of this management measure. Data from the fishery was mapped in ArcGIS to calculate CPUE, model the redistribution of displaced fishing effort, and understand the ecological benefits to the fishery. Results showed that fishermen are expected to relocate effort south of the area closure. Corresponding ecological benefits do not fully account for dead discards and are not expected to rebuild stocks. CPUE is not consistently high within the closure but instead migrates seasonally along the coast. This suggests that dynamic fisheries management may have greater ecological benefits to Atlantic bluefin tuna.Item Open Access Parental dietary seleno-L-methionine exposure and resultant offspring developmental toxicity.(Aquatic toxicology (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2016-01) Chernick, Melissa; Ware, Megan; Albright, Elizabeth; Kwok, Kevin WH; Dong, Wu; Zheng, Na; Hinton, David ESelenium (Se) leaches into water from agricultural soils and from storage sites for coal fly ash. Se toxicity causes population and community level effects in fishes and birds. We used the laboratory aquarium model fish, Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes), an asynchronous breeder, to determine aspects of uptake in adults and resultant developmental toxicity in their offspring. The superior imaging properties of the model enabled detailed descriptions of phenotypic alterations not commonly reported in the existing Se literature. Adult males and females in treatment groups were exposed, separately and together, to a dry diet spiked with 0, 12.5, 25, or 50 μg/g (dry weight) seleno-L-methionine (SeMet) for 6 days, and their embryo progeny collected for 5 days, maintained under controlled conditions and observed daily for hatchability, mortality and/or developmental toxicity. Sites of alteration included: craniofacial, pericardium and abdomen (Pc/Ab), notochord, gall bladder, spleen, blood, and swim bladder. Next, adult tissue Se concentrations (liver, skeletal muscle, ovary and testis) were determined and compared in treatment groups of bred and unbred individuals. No significant difference was found across treatment groups at the various SeMet concentrations; and, subsequent analysis compared exposed vs. control in each of the treatment groups at 10 dpf. Increased embryo mortality was observed in all treatment groups, compared to controls, and embryos had a decreased hatching rate when both parents were exposed. Exposure resulted in significantly more total altered phenotypes than controls. When altered phenotypes following exposure of both parents were higher than maternal only exposure, a male role was suggested. The comparisons between treatment groups revealed that particular types of phenotypic change may be driven by the sex of the exposed parent. Additionally, breeding reduced Se concentrations in some adult tissues, specifically the liver of exposed females and skeletal muscle of exposed males. Detailed phenotypic analysis of progeny from SeMet exposed parents should inform investigations of later life stages in an effort to determine consequences of early life exposure.