Training is a key business process used to increase the skills and knowledge of employees in an effort to improve overall performance. Evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of training processes is necessary to ensure time, money, and resources are used to provide the most benefit possible. This investigation is...
A Seafood Environmental Management Systems manual (SEMS) has been developed by Bord Iascaigh
Mhara (The Irish Sea Fisheries Board) in conjunction with the Irish fishing industry to encourage
fishermen to adopt an environmentally conscious, responsible and compliant approach to their business.
The documented risk-based SEMS approach developed is essentially a...
Fisheries management is an issue that draws out conflicting responses
about the role of the state, the market and civil society over the
management of natural resources. As an individual, anybody who is
exploiting the common resource will not think of any conservation because
the benefits in the short term...
This study is part of the research program on theme Post Harvest Management Strategy of Supply Chain For Thai Shrimp Products currently supported by the Department of Fisheries (DOF) and Post Harvest Technology Institution (PHT), Chiangmai University (CMU). That focuses on the cost efficiencies of 51 shrimp processing plants under...
This paper addresses to a comparative approach of long term changes in the characteristics of marine fisheries at a regional scale, in three ecosystems: up-welling, tropical and temperate. The South Moroccan
continental shelf, under the influence of the Canary current, where up-wellings take place, is the most productive part of...
Environmental concerns about seafood consumption generally are associated with the status of target stocks as well as bycatch and/or habitat issues. The more recent concept of "food miles" hails from terrestrial food production, and focuses on "consuming locally" in an effort to reduce the carbon footprint of a consumer's diet....
The Lofoten fishery exploits the spawning migration of the Northeast- Arctic cod and is one of the fisheries in the world with the longest history. Since 1860, data on participation and catches in the Lofoten fishery are available. For about a hundred years, labor productivity in this fishery, measured as...
Grocery retailing is a big business that impacts every American. Retailers at the end of the food distribution channel greatly influence the food manufacturers at its beginning. Grocery retailers often are the only face that consumers see in the food distribution channel; thus, they are the most powerful gatekeepers between...