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Thinking Outside the Fishbox: Innovative Ideas for Overcoming the Challenges Fishermen Face Selling their Catch from Boat-to-Fork
(2017-04-27)
One rapidly growing approach to support both healthy fisheries and fishing communities
is the promotion of local seafood, via direct marketing arrangements such as Community
Supported Fisheries (CSF). CSFs are a strategy ...
Catch Share Management in New England: Groundfish Sectors
(2010-04-29)
The management of domestic fisheries by the use of catch shares has become a topic
of increased attention in recent years. The New England Fishery Management Council
(NEFMC) recently voted to adopt a catch share program ...
A Gap Analysis of the Distributions of Cephalopod Species Worldwide with a Focus on Commercially Important Species
(2010-04-28)
Cephalopods are valuable species as they provide ecological functions and are also
important commercially and scientifically. This study attempts to adequately describe
the distribution of Class Cephalopoda as well as focusing ...
Marine Ecosystem-Based Management in Mexico: an idea traveling across borders
(2010-04-30)
Ecosystem-based management (EBM) has gained acceptance around the world as an integrated
approach to management based on science that considers the entire ecosystem, including
humans. I analyze two implementation projects ...
Religion and Fisheries Management in Coastal North Carolina
(2008-04-25)
Many fishermen and fisheries managers in Eastern North Carolina hold strong Christian
beliefs which influence their attitudes toward the fishery, and therefore affect how
the fishery is managed. In public meetings on fisheries ...
Optimizing Conservation Benefits of Pelagic Marine Protected Areas: Assessing Alternative Timing of the Charleston Bump Time-Area Closure
(2017-04-28)
The three-month Charleston Bump time-area closure was implemented in 2001 with the
primary goal of reducing bycatch of juvenile swordfish in the U.S. Atlantic pelagic
longline fishery. Due to this closure and other management ...
Inter-Jurisdictional and Multi-Scale Challenges of River Herring Management and Bycatch Reduction
(2012-04-27)
The alewife and the blueback herring, collectively known as river herring, were once
abundant along most of the Atlantic coast of the United States but have declined significantly
throughout their range. River herring populations ...
Regional Bycatch of Long-lived Species (Sea Birds, Marine Mammals, and Sea Turtles) in the Mediterranean and Black Seas
(2008-04-23)
The Mediterranean and Black Seas region includes twenty-two countries, three continents,
and 26,000 kilometers of coast. About 80%, or 32,950 vessels, are less than 12 meters
in length, and thus characterized as small-scale ...
A Preliminary Examination of the Impacts of Faith and Religion in the Use of Common-Pool Resources: The Case of Artisanal Fisheries in Kino Bay and Punta Chueca, Mexico
(2012-04-27)
Researchers studying common-pool resources have historically not given enough attention
to the influence of faith and religion among fisheries resource users. However, the
ethics and value systems taught by religious leaders ...
POLICY AND MANAGEMENT OPTIONS FOR INVASIVE INDO-PACIFIC LIONFISH IN U.S. WATERS
(2011-04-29)
The Indo-Pacific lionfish (Pterois miles and P. volitans) is now one of the most notorious
marine finfish invasions in history. With established populations ranging from North
Carolina, U.S.A, to the Atlantic coast of South ...