Recently added articles from Marine Fisheries Review:
History of Alaska red king crab, Paralithodes camtschaticus, bottom trawl surveys, 1940-61.(Survey)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Introduction The U.S. government was integrally involved with the development of Alaska's red king crab, Paralithodes camtschaticus, fishing industry (Blackford, 1979). In 1940 Congress appropriated funds for surveys of Alaska's fishery resources (Schmitt, 1940; FWS, 1942). ...
Overview of the U.S. east coast bottom longline shark fishery, 1994-2003.
Jan 01, 2009; ... Introduction Shark exploitation in the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, sporadic throughout much of the twentieth century, has greatly increased over the last three decades. Shark stock assessments (NMFS (1,2,3)) have varied in their estimates of stock size, fishing mortality, ...
Catches of Humpback Whales, Megaptera novaeangliae, by the Soviet Union and other nations in the Southern Ocean, 1947-1973.
Jan 01, 2009; ... Introduction The great whales of the Southern Ocean were extensively exploited by modern whaling methods, with the first catches made in the Falkland Islands Dependencies region of IWC Management Area II in 1904 (Tonnesson and Johnsen,1982; Hart, 2006). Exploitation went through ...
A whale of a deception.
Jan 01, 2009; ... In late October of 1966, an imposing ship steamed quietly through the placid waters of the Suez Canal. Clad in drab industrial gray, and flying a Soviet hammer and sickle flag at her masthead, the vessel was accompanied by a large fleet of smaller craft. Any observer able to decipher ...
History of the bay scallop, Argopecten irradians, fisheries and habitats in Eastern North America, Massachusetts through Northeastern Mexico.
Jun 22, 2008; ... Preface This is a broad historical overview of the bay scallop, Argopecten irradians, fishery on the East and Gulf Coasts of North America (Fig. 1). For a little over a century, from about the mid 1870's to the mid 1980's, bay scallops supported large commercial fisheries ...
The bay scallop, Argopecten irradians, Massachusetts through North Carolina: its biology and the history of its habitats and fisheries.(Part 1)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Introduction The major harvesting area for bay scallops, Argopecten irradians irradians and Argopecten irradians concentricus, in eastern North America has been coastal bays from Massachusetts through Long Island, N.Y., and in North Carolina (Fig. 1). From the 1870's to the mid ...
The bay scallop, Argopecten irradians, Massachusetts through North Carolina: its biology and the history of its habitats and fisheries.(Part 2)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Harvesting in Five Major Locations During the 1907-08 season, the fishery in southern Cape Cod produced 64,000 bushels with 3/4ths of the total from Chatham, Buzzards Bay produced 48,000 bushels, and Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket combined produced 53,000 bushels of bay ...
The truth about Soviet whaling: a memoir.
Mar 22, 2008; ... ALFRED A. BERZIN Translated from Russian by Yulia V. Ivashchenko A Special Issue of the Marine Fisheries Review Foreword In November 1993, Professor Alexei Yablokov, who at the time was the Science Advisor to Russian President Boris Yeltsin, ...
A. A. Berzin and his memoir.(In memoriam)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Alfred A. Berzin began to study whales in 1955 at the Pacific Research and Fisheries Center (TINRO) in Vladivostok where he is still working at the present time. (1) In the years before the rapid development of Soviet whaling only two fleets (Aleut and Second Kuril) were hunting whales. ...
The truth about Soviet whaling.
Mar 22, 2008; ... ALFRED A BERZIN Translated from Russian by Yulia V. Ivashchenko Preface I have always condemned (and to do anything more was not within our power or abilities) the illegal and sometimes destructive whaling by the Soviet Union. This opinion was expressed in ...
The status of the United States population of night shark, Carcharhinus signatus.(Cover story)
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT--Night sharks, Carcharhinus signatus, are an oceanic species generally occurring in outer continental shelf waters in the western North Atlantic Ocean including the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Although not targeted night sharks make up a segment of the shark bycatch in the ...
Transboundary movement of atlantic Istiophorid billfishes among international and U.S. domestic management areas inferred from mark-recapture studies.
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT--Billfish movements relative to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas management areas, as well as U.S. domestic data collection areas within the western North Atlantic basin, were investigated with mark-recapture data from 769 blue marlin, Makaira ...
Stanford University's John Otterbein Snyder: student, collaborator, and colleague of David Starr Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert.
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT--John Otterbein Snyder (1867-1943) was an early student of David Starr Jordan at Stanford University and subsequently rose to become an assistant professor there. During his 34 years with the university he taught a wide variety of courses in various branches of zoology and advised ...
My days on the Albatross.
Jan 01, 2008; ... Prologue Navigation and surveying formed a connecting link, as it were, between what was getting to be called the "Old Navy" and what was soon to take shape as a "New Navy." Seamanship, as an art of special character, was beginning to change its form with the passing of sail ...
Pacific hake, Merluccius productus, autecology: a timely review.
Jan 01, 2007; ... Introduction The Pacific hake (Merluccius products Ayres 1855, also known as Pacific whiting), a gadoid species inhabiting waters off the west coast of North America (Fig. 1), is the most abundant groundfish in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem (CCLME) (Sherman, ...
Long-term trends in catch composition from elasmobranch derbies in Elkhorn Slough, California.(Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve)
Jan 01, 2007; ... Introduction Elkhorn Slough is a shallow, seasonal estuary of about 1,200 ha at the center of Monterey Bay on the central California coast (Fig. 1). The slough extends approximately 1l km inland from Monterey Bay and is characterized by a main central channel with branching ...
Nesting success of Kemp's ridley sea turtles, Lepidochelys kempi, at Rancho Nuevo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 1982-2004.
Jan 01, 2007; ... Introduction The Kemp's ridley sea turtle, Lepidochelys kempi (Fig. 1) is the most endangered sea turtle in the world with a dramatic decline attributed to egg exploitation and incidental capture in commercial shrimp trawls (NRC, 1990). Its population had been declining at an ...
Toward a model for fisheries social impact assessment.
Jan 01, 2006; ... Introduction For many years experienced fisheries social scientists have discussed developing a fisheries model for social impact assessment (SIA) that would be more compatible with the approaches taken by fisheries biologists and economists when assessing potential effects of ...
Length-weight relationships of dolphinfish, Coryphaena hippurus, and wahoo, Acanthocybium solandri: seasonal effects of spawning and possible migration in the Central North Pacific.
Jan 01, 2006; ... Introduction In the Hawaii commercial longline, troll, and handline fisheries for highly migratory pelagic species, both dolphinfish (mahimahi), Coryphaena hippurus, and wahoo (ono), Acanthocybium solandri, are incidentally caught and are of secondary importance to tunas, ...
Skimmer trawl fishery catch evaluations in coastal Louisiana, 2004 and 2005.
Jan 01, 2006; ... Introduction The majority of penaeid shrimp (Penaeidae) harvested in the Gulf of Mexico and southeastern Atlantic are taken with bottom-otter trawls. Skimmer trawls (Fig. 1), an alternative method for shrimp capture, are paired-framed nets typically used in inshore waters. The ...