Fishery research is the act of studying and understanding various aspects of fish and their habitats, including their population, behavior, and the impact of human activities on them.
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The creation of a new faculty position with a focus entirely
on fisheries research allows our region to truly reap the benefits of strengthened collaboration and expertise.
Mollusk researchers at Virginia Tech in the United States and at the Freshwater
Fisheries Research Center in Wuxi, China, are collaborating to promote freshwater mussel conservation, develop more robust and productive pearl - producing Chinese mussels, and possibly introduce a U.S. mussel to China that has the potential to produce colored pearls.
«We're getting these species that usually just spawn off the Northwest in the summer time, and now they're spawning year - round,» said Ric Brodeur, a
NOAA Fisheries research scientist at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center's research station in Newport, Oregon, and coauthor of the paper.
«This is the world's largest meeting of marine mammal professionals, and the place we all compare notes and look for patterns and trends that help us piece together important changes out in the ocean,» said NOAA
Fisheries research scientist Jay Barlow, a co-author of the new humpback research and president - elect of the Society.
«It's an absolutely uncontrolled industry» in Europe, says Willem Dekker of the Netherlands Institute
for Fisheries Research in Ijmuiden.
Affiliations Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Australia, Fishing and
Fisheries Research Centre, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
Julie also led a
Collaborative Fisheries Research project in which scientific data on the diet of salmon is collected in partnership with local recreational and commercial fishers, providing data to help understand the recent salmon population crash (Thayer et al. 2013).
Borrowing
from fisheries research, our models investigate how oceanographic processes influence juvenile recruitment and regulate population dynamics.
Philippe Cury, who leads the Centre for Mediterranean and Tropical
Fisheries Research at the Institute of Research for Development in Sète, France, says it's time to put an end to subsidies that lead to overexploitation.
The tags are part of a data collection program being conducted from May to November by the
Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation and the University of Rhode Island.
«Four famous domestic fishes» — the grass, silver, black and big carps — provide protein and a livelihood to more than 10 million Chinese, yet they are dwindling in the stretch of river beneath the Three Gorges Dam, victims of the dam's development and overfishing, says Daqing Chen of the Yangtze
River Fisheries Research Institute.
Research carried out by UEA with the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) and published in the
journal Fisheries Research reveals that a ban will only help future fish stocks if it is accompanied by other measures to reduce total fishing mortality.
«Satellite technologies are starting to
revolutionize fisheries research and management in many ways,» said co-author Juan Mayorga, a marine data scientist with UCSB's Sustainable Fisheries Group and the National Geographic Society's Pristine Seas project.
In this image, killer whales cruise past the scene of their attack on another whale, spotted by a NOAA
Fisheries research survey late last year.
«This is a really tangible way for people to understand the impact of climate change,» says Rashid Sumaila, one of the study's authors who has been working with the UBC's
fisheries research unit for over 20 years.
In 2010 she undertook a summer internship with the
Greek Fisheries Research Institute and was employed as a research assistant.
Several nations, including South Korea and Norway, are already planning to study fisheries in the region, and Huntington says it would help if other research projects focused on sea ice decide also to
include fisheries research as part of their science missions.
«The question was whether the lower pH we can expect to see in Puget Sound interferes with development of the next generation of Dungeness crab,» said Paul McElhany, a NOAA
Fisheries research scientist and senior author of the paper.
Sara Morley of the Northwest Fisheries Science Center and Jeffrey Duda of the
Western Fisheries Research Center contributed to the study published in Biological Conservation.
Hua worked at the Freshwater
Fisheries Research Center in Wuxi before coming to Virginia Tech and retains her associate professor and research supervisor titles there.
Radioactive materials released into the Irish Sea from the Sellafield reprocessing plant over the past 40 years may eventually accumulate in thick sandy sediments midway between Ireland and the Isle of Man, according to the British government's Directorate
of Fisheries Research.
There have already been tangible outcomes from the new lab, called the
Freshwater Fisheries Research Center - Virginia Tech Cooperative International Laboratory for Germplasm Conservation and Utilization of Freshwater Mollusks.
According to Ronal Dijkema, a marine ecologist at the Netherlands Institute
for Fisheries Research in Ymuiden, the problems are partly caused by the unusually large numbers of starfish on the shellfish grounds in Holland's Waddenzee.
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fisheries research and development has netted funding for almost one third of the 51 projects approved nationally in the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation's funding grants for 2003.
A new framework based on retailer Coles» Responsibly Sourced Seafood project has been launched by
the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) of Australia to help food firms secure sustainable produce.
Scientists at Universiti Putra Malaysia and
the Fisheries Research Institute reviewed recent research to analyse potential control and prevention measures for streptococcal infection in cultured tilapia.
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) was petitioned to add white sharks to the endangered species list but declined, based on its own research, bolstered by a preview copy of the study by the international team, said Heidi Dewar,
a fisheries research biologist.
Preliminary surveys suggest a laboratory primarily used for
fisheries research and aquaculture experienced some flooding but avoided major damage, Palmer says.
Policy makers, scientists, experts can use this detailed data on fishing activity for fisheries management and
fisheries research both from an environmental and a socio - economic perspective.
Only 3 kilometres from
the Fisheries Research Station a major attraction.
Kim holds a PhD in Aquatic Ecology from the University of British Columbia and has worked as a teacher, an environmental consultant and is currently
a fisheries research scientist with DFO.
Kairo who is a chief scientist at the Kenya Marine and
Fisheries Research Institute (KEMFRI) quickly moved his study subject a notch higher.
Socio (s): Cameroon Wildlife Conservation Society, University of Douala, Kenya Marine and
Fisheries Research Institute