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Showing 1 to 20 of 164 for “"Fishers"”.
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Fishers of Men
<p>My novel, Fishers of Men, is a historical fiction account in which 23-year-old Henry Fisher, a present-day medical student, explores the urban legends surrounding the abandoned Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky, which handled one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in world …
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Characteristics of fishers: a case study of Zeekoevlei, Cape Town
… the behavioural patterns and motivations of the fishers are. This study focused on understanding the human dimensions of fishing at Zeekoevlei, focusing on who the fishers are and why they engage in fishing. It also addressed the source of conflicts at Zeekoevlei. The management of Zeekoevlei and …
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Does Poverty Really Impede Cognitive Function? Experimental Evidence from Tanzanian Fishers
… Using experimental evidence from Tanzanian fishers, this study examines the connection between poverty and cognitive function. Fishers in the experiment are tested on how exposure to a ‘scarcity trigger’ impacts cognition and productivity through measuring performance on problem solving …
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The opinions of BC’s public fishers on open net-pen salmon farms
In British Columbia (BC), there are 176,819 active resident anglers in the jurisdiction of BC’s Tidal Waters, the sport fishing industry creates revenues of $1.1 billion and employs 9,000 workers (BC Stats, 2018; Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 2019b). The objective of my research study was to uncover …
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The perceptions of climate change among subsistence fishers in Paternoster, South Africa
… one of the most affected groups are subsistence fishers who depend heavily on the fragile marine ecosystem and environment. This study looks at the experiences, perceptions and strategies concerning adapting to change of subsistence fishers in Paternoster. Paternoster is a historical coastal town …
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Gengið aftur í fótspor fortíðarinnar: Um tímaskyn samtímamenningar út frá fræðiskrifum Mark Fishers
… verður fjallað um skrif fræðimannsins Mark Fishers (1968-2017) um tímaskynjun út frá listfræðilegu sjónarhorni. Markmið ritgerðarinnar er annars vegar að sýna fram á mikilvægi Fishers í fræðilegri umræðu og hins vegar að gera tilraun til að greina mögulega orsök breyttrar tímaskynjunar í …
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Livelihoods of small-scale fishers of Struisbaai : implications for Marine Protected Area planning.
… focus on the livelihood strategies that fishers in this community employ, in order to inform future marine protected area planning in the Agulhas region.
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Coping strategies for fishers towards invasive alien plant species ( salvinia molesta) at Lukanga swamp, central Zambia.
… weeds have invaded. A fundamental problem facing fishers at Lukanga Swamp, is therefore, how to maintain satisfactory levels of fish catches with the presence of S. molesta. This study, therefore, investigated how the fishers are coping with the presence of S. molesta at Lukanga Swamp. The study …
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Big hopes for small-scale fishers: a critical review of South Africa's small-scale fishing policy and regulations
… to the marginalisation and exclusion of these fishers from the fishing rights allocation process that has persisted in the absence of a formal regulatory regime. The Policy for the Small Scale Fisheries Sector purports to adopt and promote a human rights based approach and focuses on food …
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Effects of forest management, prey, and predators on the habitat selection of fishers in the South Cascades of Washington.
… availability for a reintroduced population of fishers and modeled their habitat selection based on forest structure, prey, and predators to better understand what factors could influence reintroduction success of fishers. In the first chapter, I evaluated the relationship between forest …
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The frontier of the middle class: how farmers and fishers pursue better lives in the coastal landscapes of eastern Indonesia
… types of lives in their rural settings. For the fishers, farmers and forest-dependent people who live in these coastal landscapes, what are the types of lives to which they aspire? How do these aspirations influence the decisions that rural households make about livelihood strategies and resource …
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The frontier of the middle class: how farmers and fishers pursue better lives in the coastal landscapes of eastern Indonesia
… types of lives in their rural settings. For the fishers, farmers and forest-dependent people who live in these coastal landscapes, what are the types of lives to which they aspire? How do these aspirations influence the decisions that rural households make about livelihood strategies and resource …
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Assessing the contribution of interim relief measures to food security and income of small-scale fishers of Ocean View, Western Cape
… the characteristics of Ocean View small-scale fishers and their dependence to marine resources for food and livelihood. The study further examined the international and regional instruments as well as domestic legislations managing small-scale fisheries and promoting food security and fishers' …
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Assessment of an environmentally-friendly method of ornamental fishing associated with revenues of fishers in Tejakula sub-district, Buleleng region, Bali, Indonesia
… decrease in total fishery revenue. The fishers have benefited in resource conservation and a 73% decrease in fishing costs. The overall number of ornamental fishers has declined, due to social pressure, a smaller overall fishing space because of No Take Zones (NTZ), and fewer orders for …
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Incorporating local harvester knowledge to assess vulnerability in the aquarium trade
… was used to incorporate both literature and fishers’ knowledge to determine the sustainability of this particular fishery. Over 180 species of fish (97,635 individuals) were identified as being collected for the aquarium trade from 2013-July 2017 due to fishers’ receipts. One species, the …
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Individual transferable fishery quotas under uncertainty
… season, when the authorities revise the TAC; (5) fishers form rational expectations on future quota prices. The principal results are: (a) If fishers are risk-neutral, the share quota (SQ) system and the quantity quota (QQ) system generate the same amount of fishery rent, although the division of …
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Misunderstandings in fisheries: an ethnography of regulative categories and communication around Gansbaai and Dyer Island
… in the Benguela ecosystem along Gansbaai, fishers in Gansbaai partly rely on the availability of small pelagic fish (sardine and anchovy). However, fishers also hand-line and angle actively, and more recently practiced a range of other fishing techniques. Ten weeks of fieldwork in Gansbaai …
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