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Showing 1 to 20 of 84 for “"Marine resources"”.
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Optimal bioeconomic management of changing marine resources
Marine populations are increasingly subjected to changing conditions whether through harvest or through broad-scale habitat change. Historically, few models have accounted for such trends over time, and even fewer have been used to study how trends affect optimal harvests. I developed and analyzed …
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Optimal bioeconomic management of changing marine resources
Marine populations are increasingly subjected to changing conditions whether through harvest or through broad-scale habitat change. Historically, few models have accounted for such trends over time, and even fewer have been used to study how trends affect optimal harvests. I developed and analyzed …
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An analysis of the emergence of adaptive governance for sustainable management of marine resources
… of adaptive governance in a national system of marine governance, with particular emphasis on the role of marine planning. Using a social-ecological systems framework, a model was constructed to enable analysis of Scotland’s marine governance system, as a dynamic and interrelated mixture of …
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Legal aspects of the conservation and exploitation of off-shore living marine resources in Antarctica
… as to the possible exploitation of living marine resources found in Antarctic seas. Besides finfish, there appears to be great potential in krill fisheries. Krill are small, shrimp-like crustaceans which swarm in major concentrations in Antarctic waters. Estimates of krill fisheries vary …
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Gender, livelihoods and conservation in Hluleka, Mpondoland c.1920 to the present : land, forests and marine resources
… that conservation, both terrestrial and marine is experienced in different ways by men and women who consequently respond to the authorities in different ways. More particularly, it suggests that conservation both past and present has tended to be top-down and has failed to anticipate the …
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Seaweed Farming and Intra-Household Gender Relations on Songo Songo Island, Tanzania
… context. It focuses on how men and women use marine resources for their livelihoods and how the rise of seaweed farming and its decline due to plant disease have affected intra-household gender relations on Songo Songo Island in Tanzania. Little is known about the effect on coastal people of …
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Overfishing in Senegal: A Deep Dive into the Livelihood of Coastal Communities
… with the European Union have put great strain on marine resources to the detriment of local fishing communities. This thesis investigates the impact of overfishing on the livelihoods of artisanal fishery workers in Senegal, focusing on the intricate relationship between fishery management, …
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An investigation into the effectiveness of maritime security in combating illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in Namibian waters: A case study of the Kunene river mouth
… Police Water Wing, Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources and Directorate of Maritime Affairs as well as Namibian Ports Authority. In addition, data was collected through semi structured open-ended interviews, focus group discussions and observation. The research findings revealed that, …
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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
… 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' participation in management and …
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An investigation of the implications of the decision to close the abalone fishery and the impacts on abalone rights holders in Kleinmond, South Africa
… This dissertation also looked at the role that marine resources play in the livelihoods of fishers and the impact of the closure on the livelihoods of rights holders. Potential opportunities and constraints associated with alternative livelihoods options for fishers were also identified.
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The international convention for the control and management of ships' ballast water and sediments 2004: a critical appraisal
… and over 97 per cent of the biosphere is marine and is unknown. Invasive marine species are one of the four major threats to the world's oceans; the other three major threats are land-source marine pollution, over-exploitation of living marine resources and physical alteration and …
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The international convention for the control and management of ships' ballast water and sediments 2004: a critical appraisal
… and over 97 per cent of the biosphere is marine and is unknown. Invasive marine species are one of the four major threats to the world's oceans; the other three major threats are land-source marine pollution, over-exploitation of living marine resources and physical alteration and …
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The international convention for the control and management of ships' ballast water and sediments 2004: a critical appraisal
… and over 97 per cent of the biosphere is marine and is unknown. Invasive marine species are one of the four major threats to the world's oceans; the other three major threats are land-source marine pollution, over-exploitation of living marine resources and physical alteration and …
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Trends and challenges for sustainable marine resource management for rural Solomon Islanders
… about the positive benefits of the customary marine tenure (CMT) system in the South Pacific and its implications for resource management. In Solomon Islands the premise of effective community-based resource management (CBRM) as a contemporary management tool, rests to a great degree on CMT, …
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An analysis of the law governing the acquisition of shipwreck
… technology. These advances have changed the way marine resources are harvested or acquired The development of SCUBA made diving to depths of 50m unrestrained by the need for surface support, feasible. 1 This opened up the possibility of exploring below the surface of the sea. It also brought with …
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The perceptions of climate change among subsistence fishers in Paternoster, South Africa
… 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 on the West Coast of South Africa. The …
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The external morphology of the first zoeal stages of Cancer magister (Dana), Cancer antennarius (Stimpson), and Cancer anthonyi (Rathbun)
… Department of Fish and Game, Division of Marine Resources.</p>
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A study of marine exploitation in prehistoric Scotland, with special reference to marine shells and their archaeological contexts
The history of the study of marine exploitation in Scotland is outlined prior to the presentation of an overview of the evidence for its practice in both earlier and later prehistory. This overview is based on a corpus of Scottish prehistoric sites known to include evidence for marine exploitation. …
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A glade in the kelp forest: socio-spatial opportunities for multi-trophic aquaculture Hout Bay, South Africa
… of kelp has labelled it as a low-value marine resource, under the Marine Living Resources Act of 1998. Under the same Act mentioned above, quotas of fishing rights have been distributed between the commercial, small-scale and subsistence fisheries. Criticism of this legislation is that …
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The merits of the regional seas: programme for Southern Africa
Regional Programmes for the Protection of the Marine Environment began with agencies and organisations that were mainly scientific in nature. These early organisations were research - oriented and although they could recommend action they had no regulatory powers, nor could they initiate any …
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