Since October 2013, consecutive cases of food mislabeling, such as Black Tiger Prawns being sold under the name of Kuruma Prawns in famous restaurants, department stores, etc., have begun to surface in Japan, and this has become a social problem. This study conducted a consumer questionnaire in free-answer format in...
Kappaphycus alvarezii is economically-important seaweed due to higher carrageenin contents. Suitable culture-method, culture-sites and solutions for fish-grazing have not been tested. Hence, growth-rate ofK.alvarezii under three culture-methods namely raft, line, and cylinder-cage were compared off Velanai and Kayts, in northern Sri Lanka from April-August 2014. Raft and line culture-methods were...
In Senegal, fisheries management has long been tried and positive results have been achieved only in fishing villages where the community has taken the initiatives. However, it is necessary for the administration and a research organization to play certain roles in fisheries management for such management to be effective. From...
Over recent decades, the EU aquaculture sector has been implementing actions towards the minimization of waste as a strategy for increasing the circular attributes of the management system. In this context, it is relevant to develop methodologies to quantify and assess the circularity that will ultimately be achieved by new...
Optimal and sustainable fisheries industry can only be achieved with proper planning through
the implementation of appropriate management instruments as well. Fisheries resources
accounting is one of the planning instruments, which should be used as a main reference of
Fisheries Management Plan. In general, fisheries accounting provide insights for policy...
Malawi - a country in southern Africa is endowed with vast natural resources. Among these, is Lake Malawi, the 8th and 3rd largest lake in the world and Africa respectively. It is by far the only lake in the world with highest fish species biodiversity - around a thousand. The...
The study examined the determinants of profit margins earned by artisanal fishermen in Ghana using the concept of percentage contribution margin. The effects of selected variables on margins were examined for two marketing agents - spouse and other agents. A system of equations were estimated separately for the major and...
Artificial reefs (AR) were created not only to protect sea bottoms (Lee et al., 2018) and enhance biodiversity namely by stimulating the enhancement of fish stocks (Pioch et al., 2020), but also to attract diving tourism (Shani et al., 2012) or sport fishing enthusiasts (Radonski et al., 2018). In order...
DOGMATIS is a multidisciplinary research project funded by the French Research Agency (ANR, programme ANR-OGM 2007-2010), which gathered specialists of fish transgenesis, GMO detection and regulation, fish market chain economy, consumer sociology and contemporary science philosophy and epistemology. The aim of DOGMATIS was to investigate the questions raised by the...
Small pelagic fishery is one of the socio-economically important fisheries in Morocco. In 2010, it accounts for more than 80% of the total landing weight, corresponding to approximately 0.17 billion €. Considering this fishery’s large contributions to employment, trade, transportation and processing industry, sustainable development of this fishing sector is...
This study examines price formation of the internationally traded salmon futures exchange. The results show that the futures market price provides the expected role of leading the spot market price. Further, the futures market is efficient but hindered by the presence of risk premium that biases the forecast ability. The...
Recreational fisheries in China underwent rapidly expanding in recent years, and became new sources of economic growth. Recreational fisheries played an important role in the adjustment of industrial structure and transformation of development mode in fisheries. From history view of recreational fisheries development in Chinese cities, the process of the...
In this study, socio-economic structure of fishermen in Samsun Shelf Area was investigated between January 2014 and May 2015. Questionnaires were applied to 42 fishermen by visiting the region three times. At the end of the study, the age distribution of the fishermen were mentioned between 29 and 69 years;...
The Abalone Fishery in one of Victoria’s most valuable commercial fisheries and most of the catch is exported to international markets in Asia (Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, China). Target species consist of blacklip abalone and greenly abalone (<1% of total catch). The fishery is quota managed, and the total allowable...
Nigeria with an annual potential of 2.5 million tonnes of fish from aquaculture produced only 316,727 tonnes in 2015 out of the domestic production of 1.027 million tonnes and total fish demand of 3.25 million tonnes. The government has put in place a lot of initiatives to increase aquaculture production...
İstanbul Bosphorus is a strategic fishing area with its physico-chemical and geographical characteristics. Also because of İstanbul metropole is taking part there, İstanbul aquatic Products fish market has become an important position in the region. The high variety of species and product entrance quantity rates provided us a continuous data...
This paper illustrates a case study to identify problems and actions to build the basis for an integrated fishery management plan, considering stakeholders participation. The application was made on the southern complex multispecies groundfish fishery, where operate various scales of production under a right-based fishing system. A multimethological approach (Mingers,...
Given the complex and often opaque nature of seafood supply chains, port cities can serve as checkpoints within supply chains to address illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) seafood commodities. Harmonized systems (HS) codes are used at port cities by customs officials to monitor commerce. Concern about IUU activity in capture...
Japanese foods such as sushi and sashimi are in boom in US markets, and the US import of the Japanese fish is expected to increase. However, the growth rate has not been so rapid as the import of agricultural products such as green tea and soybean paste. At the same...