The oceans have become a juncture of great visions of blue growth as well as strong environmental concern. This paper discusses the essential role of the social sciences as the oceans increasingly emerge as a contested social arena. The marine social sciences have generated a vast knowledge about the development of fisheries and the implications of fisheries policies on coastal communities. We review ...

Despite their contribution to employment, food security, poverty eradication, and community well-being, small-scale fisheries often find themselves in a disadvantageous position globally relative to large-scale fisheries and other industries competing for marine space, resources, and government attention. By and large, small-scale fisheries are marginalized in every sense of the word: culturally, ...

We studied whether in utero exposure to economic hardship during a grandmother's pregnancy has a transgenerational effect on her grandchildren's health condition. We used an individual-level three-generation data set covering people born between 1734 and 1840 in the municipality of Rendalen in Norway. We found a culling effect in which grandchildren whose grandmothers gave birth in years of economic ...

Aim for most of the companies is to grow in size and in terms of revenue; more specifically for startup companies. In addition companies, in pursuit of growth, strive to elevate the level of customer satisfaction as they consider their clients to be the driving force for success. In this thesis we explore how such growth aims have enabled one IT-consultancy company in Tromsø to develop their strategy. ...

Transitions of social-ecological systems (SES) expose governance systems to new challenges. This is particularly so in the Arctic where resource systems are increasingly subjected to global warming, industrial development and globalization which subsequently alter the local SES dynamics. Based on common-pool resource theory, we developed a dynamic conceptual model explaining how exogenous drivers ...

Virussykdommer er en av de største utfordringene innenfor oppdrett av Atlantisk laks (Salmo salar L.) og regnbueørret (Oncorhychus mykiss L.) i Norge i dag, og forårsaker store økonomiske og fiskevelferdsmessige problemer. De senere år har spesielt subtypene SAV3 og SAV2 av virussykdommen PD spredt seg til stadig ny deler av landet, hvor den forårsaker dødelighet både på settefiskanlegg og matfiskanlegg. ...

A series of Monte Carlo and HydroLight radiative transfer simulations are used to demonstrate that the traditional form of the Fresnel transmission across the water-air interface is accurate. This contradicts assertions to the contrary in a recent paper [Opt. Express 25, 27086 (2017) [CrossRef] ] that suggested that the impact of multiple surface interactions had previously been ignored and that ...

Large aggregations of the copepod Calanus finmarchicus occur each spring in the shelf-slope-oceanic regions off the Lofoten-Vesterålen Islands where productive fisheries have traditionally supported local economies. The retention and off-shelf transport of populations of C. finmarchicus populations were studied by analyzing ocean color remote sensing, satellite altimetry data, and Lagrangian Coherent ...

The GAP project is concerned with the lack of stakeholder participation in providing knowledge for management. This creates a legitimacy problem as the fishermen do not get to share the knowledge basis for and justification of management decisions. In addition, fishermen’s experience-based knowledge remains unused. GAP intends to bridge the legitimacy and knowledge gaps, finding practical ways for ...

Langs kysten av Nord-Norge, på stortinget, og i media går debatten varm når enkelte tråleiere, ikke lever opp til samfunnets forventninger som råstoffleverandør, og samfunnsbærende næring i fiskeriavhengige kommuner. Mer spesifikt handler debatten om politiske virkemidler, heretter kalt pliktsystemet, som har med hensikt å trygge bosetting og sysselsetting i tilgodesette kommuner. Gjennom pliktsystemet ...