The present study aims to recognize dhow prawn trawl by-catch from Hormuzgan coastal waters (Northeast Persian Gulf). Sampling was carried out of 36 hauls by using traditionally wooden dhow among prawn fishing season in 2011. The catch composition consisted of 31.66% target species prawns, mainly banana prawn (Penaeus merguiensis) and 68.34% by-catch. The total by-catch was 4,622.67kg com...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Terms of Reference (TOR): 1. Characterize the commercial catch including landings and discards. Characterize recreational landings. This TOR was completed. See Section 2.0. 2. Estimate fishing mortality and total stock biomass for the current year and characterize the uncertainty of those estimates. 3. Evaluate and either update or re-estimate biological reference points as ap...

The phrase ‘global land grab’ has become a catch-all framework to describe and analyze the current explosion of (trans)national commercial land transactions revolving around the production and sale of food and biofuels. Initially deployed and popularised especially by activist groups deeply concerned and opposed to such transactions from an environmental-agrarian justice perspective, the signif...

The “convex hull problem” is a catch-all phrase for computing various descriptions of a polytope that is either specified as the convex hull of a finite point set in R or as the intersection of a finite number of halfspaces. We first define the various problems and discuss their mutual relationships (Section 26.1). We discuss the very special case of the irredundancy problem in Section 26.2. We...

The status of the Mediterranean Sea fisheries was evaluated across seven subdivisions General Fisheries Commission for (GFCM), using ecotrophic and catch-based indicators period 1970–2017. All confirmed that fishery resources are no longer sustainably exploited structure function marine ecosystems has been altered as a result overexploitation. Although declining catches were common feature Sea,...