The Indonesian Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Program (COREMAP) is a 3 Phase, 18 year (1998 - 2016), USD 250 million national program aimed at protecting, rehabilitating and better managing Indonesia's coral reefs and their associated ecosystems and improving the livelihoods and incomes in target coastal communities where currently 60%...
Management of the Danish protein fisheries in the North Sea has during recent years become increasingly politicised, as various stakeholder groups are seeking influence on the decision-making process. In relation to management of the sand eel and Norway pout fisheries, two different issues are debated. In the sand eel fishery,...
In view of the coastal areas, vulnerability to natural hazards particularly tsunami, earthquakes, etc, are
rather increasing. The tsunami, giant tidal waves struck on 26th of December 2004 caused severe damage to people and their livelihood. It is now felt that the country should enforce a regulation procedure to manage...
NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) recently completed two reports on excess harvesting capacity, National Assessment of Excess Harvesting Capacity in Federally Managed Commercial Fisheries and Excess Harvesting Capacity in U.S. Fisheries: A Report to Congress. This paper presents the definitions of harvesting capacity, excess capacity, and overcapacity used in...
There is growing realization of the potential for games and experiments as powerful tools not only for research, but also for education and outreach. Experiments are particularly powerful and useful for fisheries economists because (a) they can vividly illustrate some fundamental concepts and (b) are effective at testing the relative...
Overfishing has been cited as a major cause of sea bass population decline and recent scientific analyses have reinforced previous concerns of unsustainable fishing advising urgently for a substantial reduction in fishing mortality. For the first time, 2013, the ICES released an analytical advice on the status of the European...
The natural estrogen 17β-estradiol (E2) is responsible for the endocrine disruption and also has potential effect on the reproduction of vertebrate. However, its effect on invertebrate reproduction has scarcely been studied. The present study was conducted to determine the effect of E2 on survival, egg production and egg hatch of...
High-level hygiene management for foods is highly required in Japan nowadays. In general, there are 5 stages in the flow of marine products; fishing, unloading, market, processing and distribution. Therefore it is important to take care the hygiene management at each stage of them. In this report, the most advanced...
This document provides a summary of a Special Session held at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The registration number and title of the special session were 5329: Sustainability of Fisheries and Aquaculture: the Multidisciplinary Approach as a Key for Success. The session was organized by Elisa Ravagnan....