There are high possibilities in the near future that great earthquakes occur and large-scale tsunamis attack Japan. In fishing ports facing on the ocean where a large number of fishing boats are moored, these boats would be littered in the ports, or drifting boats would collide with back-yard-structures, if such a tsunami attacks, like an event actually happened at Hokkaido in 1993. This is one...

Marine spatial planning (MSP) is increasingly utilized to sustainably manage ocean uses. Marine protected areas (MPAs), a form of spatial management in which parts of the ocean are regulated to fishing, are now a common tool in MSP for conserving marine biodiversity and managing fisheries. However, the use of MPAs in MSP often neglects, or simplifies, the redistribution of fishing and non-fishi...

To gauge the collateral impacts of fishing we must know where fishing boats operate and how much they fish. Although small-scale fisheries land approximately the same amount of fish for human consumption as industrial fleets globally, methods of estimating their fishing effort are comparatively poor. We present an accessible, spatial method of calculating the effort of small-scale fisheries bas...

This study estimated the exposure to dust mites in various occupational environments in Croatia. In total, 29 occupational dust samples were collected: 10 from urban areas (offices, archive of an insurance company, tobacco, paper-recycling, fish-processing and textile plants, animal unit for experimental rats, winery), nine from rural areas (barley, hay, animal food and flour warehouses, tailor...

Animals are attracted to human food subsidies worldwide. The behavioral response of individuals to these resources is rarely described in detail, beyond chances of encounters. Seabirds for instance scavenge in large numbers at fishing boats, triggering crucial conservation issues, but how the response to boats varies across encounters is poorly known. Here we examine the behavioral response of ...

The purpose of this study is to determine the magnitude of the fisheries sector along the Amazon river in Brazil. Total income and employment was estimated for the principal activities comprising the fisheries sector: fish processing plants, stores selling fishing gear, gas stations, restaurants, ice factories, and boatyards based on interviews conducted with businesses in 15 cities along the A...

The data mining is carried out for the historical data to investigate and analyze crucial factors related to the causes of accidents of fishing boats. The vital factors, especially shipping time, weather and manipulation, etc. are extracted as the input variables of a BP neural network to establish a safety warning model for fishing boats. In addition, the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is e...

A survey of recreational boat-based and shore-based fishing in the Swan-Canning Estuary Basin was conducted between August 1998 and July 1999. During the survey 1,302 interviews were conducted at boat ramps. The majority of these (62%) were not involved in fishing or crabbing activities, with a further 18 per cent fishing in the adjacent ocean. Of the remainder, 139 boats had been crabbing and ...