This document contains transcripts of Joel Hedgpeth’s series of lectures delivered over KPFA radio in Berkeley, California. These passionate lectures described the uses of oceanography, attempted to differentiate between oceanography and marine science, and encouraged students to pursue oceanography. Joel Hedgpeth was a director of the Hatfield Marine Science Center.
The motivation of this paper is to detail the application of Markov chains in
simulating fleet dynamics in Australia's Northern Prawn Fishery (NPF).
The Markov chains are enhanced through the use of the multinomial logit
(MNL) and Seemingly Unrelated Regressions (SUR) models to explain
transition probabilities. The terms MNL Markov...
Small-scale fisheries play an important role in generating employment, income and livelihood to the
fisherfolk. It constitutes 81 per cent of the total fisheries sector in India. But, this sector remains neglected
and the fisherfolk are socially and economically backward. Even after six decades of planned
development nearly 62 per...