—Despite widespread recognition of the importance of including stakeholders in management decisions for fisheries, an integrated process for broadening stakeholder involvement in the management of marine fisheries in the United States is lacking. Many marine recreational fishery stakeholders feel frustrated by a perceived lack of inclusion in the management process. Here, we describe a collabor...

Title of Document: THE EFFECTS OF WATER QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS ON A COMMERCIAL FISHERY: EVIDENCE FROMTHEMARYLAND BLUE CRAB FISHERY Sarah Ball, Ph.D., 2014 Directed By: Associate Professor Doug Lipton, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics Developing and implementing total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) is a costly and controversial process. However, there are many potential benefits, suc...

The U.S. Atlantic large coastal shark fishery grew rapidly during the 1980s when commercial landings increased from 135 metric tons (t) in 1979 to a high of 7122 t in 1989 (NMFS, 1993). In 1993, a quota of 2750 t was established; in 1997 this quota was halved to 1375 t in order to rebuild depleted shark stocks. This fishery targets several species of sharks that are valued for fins (exported to...

Multidimensional Fishery Time Series database stores fishery time series data regarding different aspects of Greek fishery sector such as economical, technical, biological, space and time and it is used for carrying out sustainability and risk analysis of Cephalopods catch quantity in Greece. Economically the most important Cephalopods species Octopus seems to be sustainable for the last four y...

Many fisheries are potentially very valuable. According to a recent report by the World Bank and the FAO (2008), global fisheries rents could be as high as US$ 40-60 billion annually on a sustainable basis. However, according to the report, due to the “common property problem”, most fisheries of the world are severely overexploited and generate no economic rents. The Lake Victoria Nile perch fi...

For any spatially explicit management, determining the appropriate spatial scale of management decisions is critical to success at achieving a given management goal. Specifically, managers must decide how much to subdivide a given managed region: from implementing a uniform approach across the region to considering a unique approach in each of one hundred patches and everything in between. Spat...

Sushi, a very popular food worldwide became a popular ready-to-eat food selling in supermarkets, but it exhibit distinct features, which are associated with microbiological hazards. Therefore, MAP technology, known to reduce aerobic bacteria in fishery products, was used to improve quality of ready-to-eat salmon sushi in this study. Salmon sushi were packaged with air (control), 50%N2 /50%CO2 (...

In recent years, the use of edible coatings as a carrier of food additives and antimicrobial compounds in fishery products has been considered. This study was carried out to evaluate the effects of 2% chitosan coating singly or combined with 0.1% grape seed extract (GSE) on microbial (mesophilic and psychrophilic count), chemical (TBA, pH and PV) and sensorial properties of rainbow trout fillet...

In this study, we consider the effects of marine environmental factors on the spatial distribution of Ommastrephes bartrami in the western North Pacific Ocean during the period in which the commercial squid fishery operates. Spatial referenced fishery data and satellite-derived advanced very high resolution radiometry (AVHRR) sea surface temperature (SST) data, Sea-viewing Wide Fieldof-view Sen...

This paper considers the dynamic producer and consumer benefits from improving habitat that supports a commercial fishery under two different fishery management institutions. By coupling state equations that represent the effects of estuarine eutrophication on fish populations with a multispecies, two-patch spatial bioeconomic model that endogenizes output price through residual demand, the ana...