fisheries

Association of Peruvian Anchovy Producers Pursues MSC Certification

...ition Canada (ONC) depends on healthy, sustainable fisheries to ensure future business growth and success, and ...zations that back the MSC, supporting well-managed fisheries and helping preserve global fish stocks. That's an...od products was $1.4 billion US with the number of fisheries involved in the MSC program rising by 41 percent d...

Articles by Prominent Scientists Featured in 25th Anniversary Issue

...build a broad consensus on the need to phase out fossil fuels and to begin reducing per-capita energy use. Carl Safina on moving to a new era of fisheries management. The prominent marine scientist writes that ineffectual federal management has resulted in severely depleted fish stocks that continue to ...

Slugs a home run with NIH

... as Israel, Japan and Sweden," said Dr. Michael Schmale, Marine Biology and fisheries Professor and Principal Investigator on the awarded grant. "The relatively...rchers benefiting from this state-of-the-art facility is Marine Biology and fisheries Associate Professor and Co-Principal Investigator, Professor Lynne Fieber. ...

Salmon of the America's Responds to PEW Environmental Group

...olerance of antibiotic residue is mandatory in farmed salmon and extended periods of withdrawal are prescribed and monitored by the Chilean Government fisheries department (Sernapesca) and the US FDA prior to harvest and entry into the USA. For Pew to state that consumers run a health risk by purchasing f...

Fish health claims may cause more environmental harm than good: UBC-St. Michael's researchers

...earchers from the University of British Columbia's fisheries Centre and author Farley Mowat to closely examine ...healthy," explains Rashid Sumaila, director of the fisheries Economics Research Unit at UBC fisheries Centre and study co-author. "But where do we get ...

Highmark Employee Volunteers Receive $7,000 in Grants to Support Local Nonprofits

... sport of Chapter #468 fishing to help conserve, protect and restore local cold water streams and fisheries in the Philadelphia region. The grant will be used to help implement a "Growing Greener" program at a loca...

Chemical come-on successfully lures lovesick lampreys to traps

...mate, are well-documented in the insect world. Weiming Li, MSU professor of fisheries and wildlife, has focused much of his career on the well-developed sense of...nce and Portugal, sea lamprey is considered a delicacy. "The Great Lakes fisheries Commission would like to deploy one new integrated pest management control ...

Earthjustice/EIP Report: Dangerous Mercury Pollution From Unregulated Cement Kilns in U.S. About Twice as High as Levels Previously Projected by EPA

...rti Sinclair, chairperson, Sierra Club National Air Committee (Cincinnati, OH), said: "EPA's mercury strategy has allowed polluters to contaminate our fisheries with mercury, then warn people off eating fish. Folks who ignore the warning or just don't know are imperiled. Those who avoid fish altogether are eat...

Lead shot and sinkers: Weighty implications for fish and wildlife health

...d Chris Franson. The two scientists are lead authors of The Wildlife Society (TWS) technical report and co-authors with five other experts of a recent fisheries article on the same subject. "Science is replete with evidence that ingestion of spent ammunition and fishing tackle can kill birds," Rattner said...

ESA contributes to ocean carbon cycle research

...ocean colour data can provide oceanographers with the information they need to monitor the state of the oceans for other applications, such as for the fisheries and aquaculture industries. GlobColour, part of ESAs Data User Element (DUE), will begin providing near-real time ocean colour observations to sup...

fisheries in Medical Technology

Neptune Industries Reports Favorable Phase II Trial Results on Ento- Protein(TM)

...ween the Departments of Entomology, Wildlife and Fisheries, and Food Science and Technology. Dr. Lou D'Abramo, Professor, Department of Wildlife and fisheries at Mississippi State stated, "In the recent feeding trial, the Ento-Protein(TM) replaced fishmeal as an ingredient of a sustainable diet for hybrid st...

fisheries in Medical Dictionary

Shellfish

... Shellfish is a culinary and fisheries term for exoskeleton bearing aquatic invertebrate used as food, including various species of molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms. Shellfish i...

fisheries in Biological News

Did the North Atlantic fisheries collapse due to fisheries-induced evolution?

The Atlantic cod has, for many centuries, sustained major fisheries on both sides of the Atlantic. However, the North American fisheries have now largely collapsed. A new paper in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE from scientists at the University of Iceland and Marine Research Ins...

Human connection to our nation's fisheries comes alive through oral history project

Voices from the Fisheries , an archive of oral histories of recreational and commercial fishermen and the communities and families that rely on them, documents the human experience with the nation's coastal, marine and Great Lakes environments and living marine resources. Social scientists Sus...

Another fisheries commission throws the science overboard in tuna decision, WWF says

BUSAN, South Korea, December 12, 2008 The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) decision to make only minor reductions in fishing for bigeye and yellowfin tuna does nothing to help stop the demise of these species, World Wildlife Fund said today. The WCPFC disregarded the advic...

A fisheries catch-22

Human impacts on the environment have reduced populations of wild species to dangerously low levels. Nowhere is this more apparent than in worldwide fisheries, where thanks to overfishing and habitat destruction, countless species and populations of fish are on the brink of disappearing forever. ...

Springer to publish Fisheries Science as of 2009

Fisheries Science will be published by Springer as of January 2009. The official journal of the Japanese Society of Fisheries Science, previously published by Wiley-Blackwell, is respected internationally for the publication of basic and applied research articles in a broad range of subject area...

New study offers solution to global fisheries collapse

A study published in the September 19 issue of Science shows that an innovative yet contentious fisheries management strategy called "catch shares" can reverse fisheries collapse. Where traditional "open access" fisheries have converted to catch shares, both fishermen and the oceans have benefit...

New tool for resolving fisheries conflicts

Images of dolphins and turtles ensnared in tuna nets are a heart-wrenching reminder of the impact of fisheries on ocean bio-diversity. Known in fisheries science as by-catch, this killing of non-target species is a complex problem that has resisted easy answers. One possible solution, advanced ...

Small-scale fishing in Mexico rivals industrial fisheries in accidental turtle deaths

SANTA CRUZ, CA--Industrial fishing operations take plenty of blame for both depleting fish stocks and inadvertently catching innocent bystanders such as dolphins, sharks, seabirds, and sea turtles--a phenomenon known as "bycatch." But new research shows that a small-scale Mexican fishery--opera...

Canada's pristine freshwater fisheries at risk

(SEPTEMBER 19, 2007) -- If you want to catch a trophy northern pike, walleye or brook trout in the northern Canadian wilderness, better plan your trip soon. Thats because according to a report released today by the Wildlife Conservation Society, looming development, including forestry, mining and...

Canada's pristine freshwater fisheries at risk

(SEPTEMBER 19, 2007) -- If you want to catch a trophy northern pike, walleye or brook trout in the northern Canadian wilderness, better plan your trip soon. Thats because according to a report released today by the Wildlife Conservation Society, looming development, including forestry, mining and...

fisheries in Biological Technology

Internet can warn of ecological changes

...ary life. However, these are threatened by sudden changes in ecosystems caused by various pressures like climate change and global markets. Collapsing fisheries and the irreversible degradation of freshwater ecosystems and coral reefs are examples that have already been observed. Averting such ecosystem change...

Oberon FMR Wins Top Prize at BioWest 2008 Venture Showcase Competition

... this opportunity, Oberon strives to develop, to manufacture, and to commercialize a fish meal replacement suitable for decreasing pressures on global fisheries while enabling increased production of farm-raised fish. Ultimately, the product may be incorporated into feed formulations for other animals as well...

UT Knoxville Wins $16M Mathematics and Biology Center

...ting the right people with one another, and then facilitating that connection," said Graham Hickling, an associate professor of forestry, wildlife and fisheries at the UT Institute of Agriculture. Hickling serves as associate director for partner relations at NIMBioS. In addition to these small working group...

DuPont Strengthens Commitment to Responsible Science with New Biotech Advisory Panel Members

.... Clay has been engaged in detailed examinations of the social and environmental impacts of commodity production in land- and water-based agriculture, fisheries and bio-energy production systems. Jiayang Li, Ph.D., principal investigator for the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academ...

Re-engineering our economy to be sustainable and profitable

... go hand-in-hand as the world seeks ways to head off the worst effects of global climate change. A separate report warned of the possible depletion of fisheries worldwide, and a chorus of scientists suggested a 21st century Manhattan Project to dramatically increase research and development of energy technolog...

Detection of Variation in Highly Polymorphic Mhc Genes by Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis Using the DCode System

...bi J. Ming and Ruth E. Withler, Pacific Biological Station, Department of fisheries and Oceans, Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 5K6, Canada Introduc...cumulate large databases, and to use DGGE for applied, real-time fisheries issues such as stock identification in mixed stock fisheries, es...

fisheries in Biological Definition

Marine biology

...ic materials . Related fields Marine biology is closely linked to both oceanography and biology . It also encompasses ideas from ecology . fisheries science can be considered a partial offshoot of marine biology, as can marine conservation . Lifeforms Microscopic life Microscopic life u...

Parasitology

... the host (eg. influences on mortality rate) and relationships between different populations of host species. This technique is commonly applied in fisheries biology , where parasites are used to identify different populations of the same fish. This forms an interesting application of the Red Queen hypothe...

fisheries in Biological Dictionary

Population dynamics

...ulations are... A fishery is an area with an associated fish or aquatic population which is harvested for its commercial or recreational value. fisheries can be wild or farmed. Population dynamics describes the ways in which a given... Population Dynamics . by Country, Religion, or Ethnicity. To...

Ichthyology

.... (Redirected from Ichthyology terms) Jump to: navigation, search. Ichthyology uses several terms that are unique to the science. See also: fisheries glossary ... Definition of ichthyology from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word...