Artisanal fisheries are increasingly been accepted as the panacea for exploiting marine resources in costal Ghana. However evidence mustered over the years indicate that the local fisher-folk who are engaged in small scale fisheries hardly get full participation in making decision governing these resources. The current study examine the factors that constrain fishers participation in decision making ...

The mackerel fishery has become the most important pelagic species for export. Prior to 1994 the allocations between the three main fleet groups, the purse seine, the coastal and the trawl fleet was negotiated on an annual basis. 1994, was an important year for the fisheries industry, the price subsidies were no longer appropriate after the implementation of the EEA agreement. A stronger focus ...

The total annual catch from the log-book and Food & Agriculture Organization were compared. Annual catch per unit effort of the Loligo reynaudi was investigated. There were five vessel size groups and eight fishing areas identified. A Simple Analysis of Variance was used to test the effect of the year, quarter, region, area on the CPUE and General Linear Model was used to standardize the CPUE. The ...

Managing an unstable fishery is a difficult task. After Barents Sea capelin reached its peak harvest volumes, it shortly after collapsed in 1986, negatively impacting the ecosystem. After its recovery due to increased management efforts, the capelin fishery has seen fluctuating quota volumes and extended periods of closed fishing activity. However, this unstable quota has caused some challenges for ...

Natural transformation is one of three mechanisms by which genetic material can be exchanged horizontally between bacteria and the only mechanism that the DNA is actively taken up by the recipient cell. It is also one of the mechanism by which bacteria acquire resistance against antibiotics and thus creating a growing concern worldwide for aquaculture industries. This study uses Acinetobacter baylyi ...

Two of the three new pillars of the European Union Common Fisheries Policy (EU Regulation 1005/2008; EU Regulation Proposal 2008/0216 (CNS)) were explicitly developed to address the illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing concern. These regulations attempt to introduce market monitoring measures that prevent IUU fish from entering legitimate trade channels in the Community. The leading purpose ...

Inland and marine capture fisheries productions in Ghana have more or less stabilised. Moreover, the increasing population is always putting pressure on the demand for fish which capture and marine productions alone are not able to meet. The national demand for fish is always greater than the country can supply and the gap is widening year after year. However, fish is the most important animal protein ...

Alaskan wild salmon and Norwegian farmed salmon represent the largest share of their respective global harvests of salmon by volume, yet both are exporting the majority of their harvests and byproducts for processing and are thereby missing out the potential to create local circular production systems for more environmentally sustainable processing . Alaskan salmon and Norwegian aquaculture have an ...

The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) is the primary advisory body in the North-East Atlantic, coordinating about 700 marine institutions throughout Europe, five affiliates, and other international projects. ICES offers guidance on a wide range of topics, from the impact of pollutants on individual animals to the state of fish populations and the consequences of numerous ...

To monitor the genetic variability of L.vannamei shrimp-specie as founder stock and their correspondent first generation (F1), four microsatellite DNA loci species-specific for these animals were used. Data from allelic diversity (size, number and frequency of alleles) and levels of hetrozygozity were obtained as measures of genetic diversity. The protocol used is belonging to the lab, from the ...