Predators commonly share prey with human exploiters, intuitively suggesting that there is an inherent human–predator conflict through competition for prey. Here we studied the effects of fishing and predation mortality on biomass distributions and yields of shared prey using a size-structured model of competing populations, describing the life histories of Baltic Sea sprat and herring. Whereas ...

No-take marine reserves (NTMRs) are increasingly being established to conserve or restore biodiversity and to enhance the sustainability of fisheries. Although effectively designed and protected NTMR networks can yield conservation and fishery benefits, reserve effects often fail to manifest in systems where there are high levels of non-compliance by fishers (poaching). Obtaining reliable estim...

the growth parameters, mortality rates and exploitation population dynamic parameters and exploitation rate of psettodes erumei were assessed between july 2010 to june 2011 using length frequency analysis. the data were collected from landing sites of jask, bandar abass, kong and qeshm hormozgan province waters. using total weight (w) and total length (tl) data, the length- weight relationship ...

Quantifying Sea Turtle Mortality with PSATs 1 New Discoveries in the Olfactory Capability of Sea Turtles 6 MHLC7—Evaluation and Comment 10 Compendium—Fisheries Research in Brief 11 (continued on page 2) The incidental capture of marine turtles in longline fishing gear is generally accepted to be a significant factor contributing to the decline of sea turtle populations in both the Pacific and A...

Today, fishing is the major source of mortality in many harvested fish stocks. The new high fishing mortality regime may induce evolutionary change in the harvested population, because the currently observed life-history patterns in fish stocks presumably reflect adaptation to past mortality regimes. Changes in these life-history patterns are likely to have an influence on, for example, the sus...

Exploitation of living resources can lead to evolutionary changes in harvested populations of plants (Law and Salick 2005) and mammals (Coltman et al. 2003), but because of the grand scale of commercial fishing most examples come from fish. The reviews by e.g. Jørgensen et al. (2007), Kuparinen and Merilä (2007), Fenberg and Roy (2008), Hutchings and Fraser (2008), and Sharpe and Hendry (2009) ...

A stochastic age-structured population model was developed to explore biologically favourable levels of effort and closing periods within the sardine pelagic fishery in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Results suggested that the developed age-structured model captured the observed biomass fluctuations and catches reasonably well and represents the first comprehensive investigation of alternative ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To compare the use of a non-mortality based proxy for relative needs for healthcare among regional populations with a mortality based proxy for population relative needs and to evaluate the additional value of a proxy based on a combination of non-mortality and mortality based proxies. DESIGN Analysis of cross sectional data on mortality, socioeconomic status, and self assessm...

This article describes an empirical exploration of relationships among aspects of thirty health districts in Saskatchewan, Canada. These aspects include social capital, income inequality, wealth, governance by regional health authorities and population health, the primary dependent variable. The social capital index incorporated associational and civic participation, average and median househol...

population dynamic parameters of red mullet, mullus barbatus (n=592) caught by trawlers operating in arzew gulf (algeria) in the western mediterranean were studied. samples were collected between february 2013 and january 2014. females ranged from 10.9-23.2 cm in total length and 12-149.2 g in weight whereas males length was comprised between 12.6 and 19.7 cm and weight between 21.3 and 99.9 g....