The global seafood trade represents the world’s largest food commodity market by value, generating massive economic flows across nations of all development levels. On top of the financial importance of this supply chain, ...

Coastal West Africa has some of the richest fishing grounds in the world due to its climatic and ecological conditions, yet poverty in this region is severe and widespread despite its fishing asset. The fishery resources ...

The groundfish fisheries of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the US are valuable economically and ecologically. The industries in the two locations have faced depleted stocks and increased regulations by the New England ...

As management of commercial fisheries becomes more spatially oriented, collection of commercial fisheries data must adapt to accurately reflect location. An important component of accurate spatial data is scale. In an attempt ...

Evaluating Local Access to Seafood in Urban Belize City By Roberto Pott May 2010 Small developing countries such as Belize face the dilemma of choosing between using their fisheries catch domestically to feed ...

From a management perspective, what is the best use of forage fish? Global landings of forage fish comprise approximately 16% of the global wild marine fish catch. Forage fish provide livelihoods and a protein source for ...

The ivory tree coral, Oculina varicosa, is known to form reefs only in deep water (80-100 meters) off the central Atlantic coast of Florida. These unique reefs support high levels of biodiversity, and provide important ...

In October 2016, the Northeast Regional Planning Body (NEPRB) released the nation’s first regional ocean plan. The NEPRB identified the Northeast Ocean Data Portal as a resource that supports their goal of moving towards ...

Fish products have become the most traded food commodities worldwide but wild fish stocks face ever-increasing pressure from rising demand (Smith et al., 2010). Over 75% of the world’s fisheries are currently either fully ...

Inhabitants of the United States Caribbean rely heavily on their fisheries as a source of food and employment. Because aquatic resources are common property,1 they are extremely attractive to islanders, many of whom are ...