Killer whale (Orcinus orca) depredation (whales stealing or damaging fish caught on fishing gear) adversely impacts demersal longline fisheries for sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria), Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) and Greenland turbot (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides) in the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands and Western Gulf of Alaska. These interactions increase direct costs and opportunity co...

In this study, the adult population of Otsego Lake walleye was estimated in order to evaluate the success of the walleye stocking program. Spawning walleye were trap netted at five locations in April 2008, marked with a dorsal fin punch and visible implant elastomer, and recaptured in May using boat electro-fishing and in September by NYSDEC experimental gill net survey. Catch per unit effort a...

Minnow traps are commonly used in the stickleback (Gasterostidae) fishery, but the potential differences in catch per unit effort (CPUE) among different minnow trap models are little studied. We compared the CPUE of four different minnow trap models in field experiments conducted with three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Marked (up to 26 fold) differences in median CPUE among dif...

Globally the majority of commercial fisheries have experienced dramatic declines in stock and catch. Likewise, projections for many subsistence fisheries in the tropics indicate a dramatic decline is looming in the coming decades. In the Pacific Islands coastal fisheries provide basic subsistence needs for millions of people. A decline in fish catch would therefore have profound impacts on the ...

Recent trends in the New Zealand fur industry, based on introduced brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) include an increasing proportion of small skins and some evidence of declining catch per unit effort, suggesting that populations are being exploited hard. There is a case for considering sustained yield harvesting in non-sensitive habitats. A logistic model is used to estimate the maxim...

The present paper describes a model of resource biomass and population with a non-linear catch rate function on resource biomass. The harvesting effort is assumed to be a dynamical variable. Tax on per unit harvested resource biomass is used as a tool to control exploitation of the resource. Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle is used to find the optimal control to maintain the resource biomass and ...

Ponyfish (Leiognathus spp.) is one of the dominant types fish landed at Nusantara Fishing Port (PPN) Karangantu. Its high-intensity fishing activities are feared to cause future problems with sustainability ponyfish resources. This study aims calculate productivity, sustainable optimal effort, maximum catch, and determine pattern season in Banten Bay. The research was conducted from April June ...