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,...
Over the last decade direct exports to China and Hong Kong of Pacific Geoduck have grown to encompass more than 80 percent of U.S. geoduck production. In December 2013 China shut its doors to U.S. geoduck over possible arsenic contamination and imports from the U.S. fell from over 250 MT...
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...
If a scientist can predict the weather (poorly)
Why cannot he predict fish yields (yet more poorly)? – a clerihew by Chris Corkett.
Recent long term historical studies of commercial fisheries have pointed to a well established pattern of overfishing. Under the principle of transference – what is true in...
Almost one half of the EEZs of the world are subject to so-called foreign fishing arrangements (FFAs), in which foreign fishing states (distant water fishing states in particular) gain access to EEZs under access arrangements with the relevant coastal states. The FFAs may take the form of “fee fishing” arrangements,...
The Philippines is surrounded with many fishing grounds. In spite of this, most fishermen in the area live in poverty, and their plight is getting worse, not better. Current fisheries policies for the area have failed to improve the situation but no research has been done to find out why....
Management of individual species in a multi-species fishery poses a number of challenges for fishery management systems, including the problem of managing fish bycatch. Fish bycatch is sometimes identified as a particular problem associated with management systems based on individual transferable quotas (ITQs) but this has not always proven to...