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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"groundfish"”.
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Evaluation of the Commercial Groundfish Integration Pilot Program in British Columbia
… an industry proposal called the Commercial Groundfish Integration Pilot Program (CGIPP), which integrated each of the seven commercial groundfish fisheries in British Columbia. The industry proposal, developed by the Commercial Industry Caucus (CIC), was the result of guiding principles …
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Spatial management of groundfish resources in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank
… design of MPAs and future management of groundfish.</p>
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A tale of two committees : evaluating collaborative management planning in Canada's Pacific groundfish fisheries
… success, this research evaluated the Commercial Groundfish Initiative, a collaborative planning process tasked with reforming the management of Canada's Pacific groundfish fisheries. Using semi-structured interviews, I gathered the perspectives of participants from the two committees within the …
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Groundfish species diversity and assemblage structure in Icelandic waters during a period of rapid warming (1996-2007)
Hlýnandi loftslag undanfarinna ára hefur valdið breytingum á útbreiðslu fiskitegunda á norðurhveli jarðar. Ólík svörun tegunda við hækkandi hita getur leitt til breytinga á samfélagsgerð og staðbundnum tegundafjölda. Í kjölfar breytinga á sjávarhita hafa verið skráðar breytingar á stofnstærð og …
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Validation of catch estimates for select species within the British Columbia groundfish hook-and-line catch monitoring program
The intent of the British Columbia Groundfish Hook and Line Catch Monitoring Program is to provide accurate estimates of species-by-area catch, including at-sea discards. The program, overseen by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, provides official estimates of total catch via fisher …
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The Emergence of Ecosystems-Based Fisheries Management from the Groundfish Crisis in New England: An Actor-Network Theory Analysis
… of the "crisis" that is escalating in its groundfish fishery. Close observations of the practices of fisheries scientists in coordination with managers at the New England Fisheries Management Council, with focus on how knowledge is being produced and employed, allows for understanding EBFM …
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Age, Growth, Mortality, and the Effects of Trawling on Mortality of the Longspine Porgy, <i>Stenotomus caprinus</i>
… Longspine Porgy, using trawl nets during groundfish surveys. In 2010-2011 five Longspine Porgy were obtained from Groundfish and Pelagic surveys at each station for further analysis. Age distribution was determined through von Bertalanffy length and weight-age models. The samples were …
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Analyses of Indices of Abundance for Important Groundfish Species in the Northern Gulf of Mexico from 1987-2009, Relative to Shrimp Bycatch; with Age and Growth of Three Sciaenid Species
<p>Bycatch in the shrimp fishery became of particular concern in the 1980s during the peak of shrimp harvest in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Shrimp bycatch is of major importance because the majority of catch in the fishery is not intended target species of commercial shrimp, and most of the …
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An exploratory approach to social impact assessment of public policy decisions: Multiple stakeholders perspectives on the social impact of overfishing in New England groundfisheries in the 1990s
… the overfishing and collapse of the New England groundfish fisheries in the 1990s.</p><p>To enact a fisheries management plan amendment, Environmental Impact Statements (EIS, which include an SIA) must be submitted. Agencies use SIA guidelines to carry out such assessments but relatively few …
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Spatial and ecological patterns of mercury and arsenic concentrations in Pacific Ocean Perch (Sebastes alutus) from British Columbia
… commercial fishery and an important part of the groundfish fishery of British Columbia. A variety of biological factors are known to influence the concentrations of trace metals in fish, including, age, body size and diet; all of which vary in this species. Little is known of the concentrations …
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Regional Variation in Migratory Behavior and Reproductive Output of The Gulf Of Mexico Blue Crab Spawning Stock
… female blue crabs collected during the SEAMAP groundfish survey were found to be actively spawning, with fecundity estimates in a similar range to the inshore population. Higher offshore abundances were observed off the coast of Texas and Louisiana across all study years from 2001-2016. …
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Conserving dolphins and fishermen: Combining science and local knowledge to reduce cetacean bycatch
… in the New England bottom trawl fishery for groundfish to aid in the development of an effective bycatch reduction plan. A quasi-binomial model of the fishery observer data was developed using environmental and fishing-related covariates to describe the probability of dolphin bycatch in this …
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Three essays on fisheries economics
… input permits, Days-at-Sea, in the Northeast groundfish fishery. This research applies a quantile regression approach to the estimation of bargaining power and tests a key identification assumption of bargaining power equality made by previous researchers. One of the findings of this research …
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More Value From the Same Fish: Catch Shares, Fishing Behavior, and Revenues
… using panel data from the Norwegian multispecies groundfish fishery and find evidence for all three.</p><p>The third paper dives deeper into the anomalies in the first and empirically tests the new theoretical predictions of the second in a real-world multispecies, mixed-management setting. While …