Small pelagic fishes particularly anchovy (Encrasicholina punctifer) and sardine (Sardinella sindensis) have an important role to support the Iranian fisheries, and are distributed along the entire length of the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea coastal waters. Using small pelagic fisheries logbook, a GIS-based environmental modelling approach was applied to investigate the presence and abundance of an...

The ultimate goal of an agriculture research system is on-time, correct and clear response to the problems and expectations of agriculture household and stakeholders. In this respect, though, due to variation and frequency of the problems and expectations and as well as many limitations such as financial deficit, short time and shortage in work force and equipments etc, the system cannot be tho...

Small-scale fisheries are an important source of food and livelihoods to coastal communities around the world. Understanding the seasonality of fisheries catch and composition is crucial to fisheries management, particularly in the context of changing environmental and socioeconomic conditions. While seasonal variability directly impacts the lives of fishers, most fisheries studies focus on lon...

Abstract The predominant policy for remedying the world fishing crisis aims at maximum sustainable yield (MSY) by adjusting gear selectivity and effort to maintain stock levels. yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) fishery in Sea of Oman has experienced intense increases removals since 1980, with particularly high levels 1990s. Here, we apply a statistical catch-at-age model time-series catches f...

Within the European Union, scientific fisheries research and advice is passed down a chain of central European institutions before being incorporated into policy. However, advice is often poorly or only partially implemented and the system has largely failed to achieve sustainable fisheries management. This paper aims to explain why, by examining the use of fisheries science within the Common F...

the study examined relationship between the gross domestic product (gdp) of nigeria with the inputs of labour, capital and the output of fisheries. this is to ascertain that the fisheries contribution to the economy is more than is recorded in the sense that taking its indirect and direct economic impact into account, its overall contribution to the gdp of nigeria may be higher than that measur...

The groundfish complex is the most abundant fisheries resource off Alaska, with a combined biomass of more than 21.8 million metric tons (t). About 76% of the biomass is found in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands region, with the remainder in the Gulf of Alaska. From 2004 to 2006, groundfish catches averaged nearly 2.2 million t or about 10% of the total groundfish biomass, although harvest r...

Fisheries observers can both collect scientific data and report on compliance with fisheries regulations. Observers are used only for scientific purposes in most US fisheries. However, North Pacific groundfish fisheries observers are required to report violations of fisheries regulations that they witness. Based on evaluation of historical enforcement incidents and survey data, this paper consi...

1 Changing Ocean Research Unit, Global Fisheries Cluster, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2 UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK, 3 Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, Paris, France, 4 Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 5 Fisheries Economics Research Unit, ...