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 ...

The brown mussel Perna perna is the dominant indigenous mussel along the east coast of South Africa, where it is harvested by recreational and subsistence fishers. High fishing pressure near urban areas led to declining abundance and consequently to the closure of some reefs to fishing in 1998. We estimated trends in mussel population dynamics at exploited and unexploited sites, along fixed transects, ...

Abstract The Fishing industry play a major role in socio-economic context of Sri Lanka. Even though, there is a significant potential to develop the fishing industry in country, the current economic performances of the industry are not satisfactory due to poor management mechanisms. It is essential to implement sustainable management approaches in order to achieve socio-economic and environmental ...

Sammendrag Oppdrett av laks har vært en suksesshistorie for Norge. Utviklingen har vært formidabel de siste tiårene fra en produksjon på ca. 46 000 tonn i 1984 til over 1,2 millioner tonn i 2014. Laksenæringen har imidlertid flere utfordringer og en av dem er rømming av laks fra sjøanlegg. Dette gir ikke bare et økonomisk tap for oppdretteren, men kan også føre til at rømt oppdrettslaks blander ...

The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) function as ligand-activated transcription factors that convert signals in the form of lipids to physiological responses through the activation of metabolic target genes. Due to their key roles in lipid and carbohydrate metabolism, the PPARs are important drug targets. However, for several of the PPAR drugs currently in use, adverse side effects ...

Global environmental changes may have a profound impact on ecosystems. In this context, it is crucial to gather biological and ecological information of the main species in marine communities to predict and mitigate potential effects of shifts in their distribution, abundance, and interactions. Using genotyping by sequencing (GBS), we assessed the genetic structure of a keystone species in the ...

The whitefish industry generates a huge amount of rest raw material, which is currently wasted or underutilized in the production of low-value products such as animal feed. While fish muscle is the primary product of use for human consumption, rest raw material has great potential as a source of protein and bioactive peptides for the production of food ingredients and nutraceuticals. Enzymatic ...

Environmental variation across the range of wild species can lead to local adaptations. The Baltic Sea was formed when the Fenno-Scandian ice sheet retreated around 12 thousand years ago, creating a new brackish water habitat colonised by both marine and freshwater fish species. The European perch (Perca fluviatilis) is a predatory freshwater fish with a large geographical distribution across ...