Fisheries

Morphological abnormality in the longnose stingray Dasyatis guttata (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) in the Colombian Caribbean

by Juan Diego Gaitán-Espitia

Cybium 2011, 35(1): 79-80.

morphological abnormality in the rostral cartilage of the longnose stingray Dasyatis guttata (Bloch & schneider,... more morphological abnormality in the rostral cartilage of the longnose stingray Dasyatis guttata (Bloch & schneider, 1801) is documented for the first time in a male specimen captured by artisanal fisheries on the North coast of the
colombian caribbean

Presencia de juveniles de tiburón aletinegro Carcharhinus limbatus (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae) en la zona norte de la ecoregión Tayrona, Caribe colombiano

by Juan Diego Gaitán-Espitia

Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 2008

The presence of two young Carcharhinus limbatus (Valenciennes, 1839) is documented. The individuals were collected by... more The presence of two young Carcharhinus limbatus (Valenciennes, 1839) is documented. The individuals were collected by artisanal fishers in the area around the Don Diego River mouth (11º18’N-73º43’W) at the north of the Tayrona National Natural Park influence zone in the Colombian Caribbean. This is the first record of this species in the area. The specimens examined are described herein

La pesca durant l'edat mitjana a través de les fonts literàries catalanes

by Frederic Aparisi Romero

Fishing in the middle ages is a subject that has interested the Spanish historiography recently. However, a paper... more Fishing in the middle ages is a subject that has interested the Spanish historiography recently. However, a paper about the sources and the work lines that the historianshave to study it has not done yet. This paper is an attempt to revise the sources of Catalan literature produced during the 13th and 15th Centuries trying to concrete the considerations about the fish and fishing in the Crown of Aragon in this period.

Zooarchaeological Analysis of the Indigenous Fishery at the Huu7ii Big House and Back Terrace, Huu-ay-aht Territory, Southwestern Vancouver Island

by Iain McKechnie

(2012) Zooarchaeological Analysis of the Indigenous Fishery at the Huu7ii Big House and Back Terrace, Huu-ay-aht Territory, Southwestern Vancouver Island. In Huu7ii: Household Archaeology at a Nuu-chah-nulth Village Site in Barkley Sound, by Alan D. McMillan and Denis E. St. Claire. Archaeology Press, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.

This paper describes how fish overwhelmingly dominates the animal bone assemblage from the examined column sample... more This paper describes how fish overwhelmingly dominates the animal bone assemblage from the examined column sample deposits at the Huu7ii village site, the named ancestral village of the Huu-ay-aht First Nation. Fish represent 99.9% of all identified bone specimens and are present in every examined litre of sediment indicating the importance of fish in the everyday life of site occupants. The bone assemblage is numerically dominated by Pacific herring, which vastly outnumbers the next most abundant fish: anchovy, salmon, hake, greenling, dogfish, and rockfish as well as two-dozen other fish taxa. I conduct a series of descriptive, quantitative, and graphical analyses that seek to interpret resource harvesting practices at the two examined portions of the site: a very large house (17x35m) dating to the late-Holocene (ca. 1,500-400 yr BP) and mid-Holocene midden deposits recovered on a raised beach terrace (ca. 5,000-3,000 yr BP).

Macreadie et al. 2012 Frontiers Write Back

by Peter Macreadie

Rigs-to-reefs policy: can science trump public sentiment?

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Peter I Macreadie*, Ashley M Fowler, and David J Booth
School of the Environment, University of Technology,... more Peter I Macreadie*, Ashley M Fowler, and David J Booth
School of the Environment, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia *(peter.macreadie@uts.edu.au)

Spatial analyses of bottlenose dolphin–fisheries interactions reveal human avoidance off a productive lagoon in the western Gulf of Mexico

by Eduardo Morteo

Let’s Talk about the price of Fish

by Liza Griffin

2008 The Green Economist. 1 (1). Pp14-20.

Hortle 2008 Yield and value of the wild fishery of rice fields in Battambang Province, Cambodia

by Kent Hortle

Hortle 2007 Consumption and the yield of fish and other aquatic animals from the Lower Mekong Basin

by Kent Hortle

Food security and fisheries governance

by Liza Griffin

Griffin, L (2009) ‘Food security & fisheries governance’ in Honor Fagan & Ronaldo Munck. Globalisation & Security. Praeger Press.

All aboard: power, participation and governance in the North Sea regional advisory council

by Liza Griffin

Scales of knowledge: North Sea fisheries governance, the local fisherman and the European scientist

by Liza Griffin

Griffin, L (2009) ‘Scales of knowledge in North Sea fisheries governance: the local fisherman & the European scientist’ Environmental Politics 18 (4). Pp 557 — 575.

The limits to good governance: a case study of North Sea Fisheries

by Liza Griffin

Griffin, L (2010) ‘The limits to good governance: a case study of North Sea Fisheries’ Geoforum. 41 (2). pp. 282-292

Fish Is Food - The FAO’s Fish Price Index

by Sigbjorn Tveteras

Co-authored with Frank Asche, Marc F. Bellemare, Martin D. Smith, Atle G. Guttormsen, Audun Lem, Kristin Lien, Stefania Vannuccini

World food prices hit an all-time high in February 2011 and are still almost two and a half times those of 2000.... more World food prices hit an all-time high in February 2011 and are still almost two and a half times those of 2000. Although three billion people worldwide use seafood as a key source of animal protein, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations–which compiles prices for other major food categories–has not tracked seafood prices. We fill this gap by developing an index of global seafood prices that can help to understand food crises and may assist in averting them. The fish price index (FPI) relies on trade statistics because seafood is heavily traded internationally, exposing non-traded seafood to price competition from imports and exports. Easily updated trade data can thus proxy for domestic seafood prices that are difficult to observe in many regions and costly to update with global coverage. Calculations of the extent of price competition in different countries support the plausibility of reliance on trade data. Overall, the FPI shows less volatility and fewer price spikes than other food price indices including oils, cereals, and dairy. The FPI generally reflects seafood scarcity, but it can also be separated into indices by production technology, fish species, or region. Splitting FPI into capture fisheries and aquaculture suggests increased scarcity of capture fishery resources in recent years, but also growth in aquaculture that is keeping pace with demand. Regionally, seafood price volatility varies, and some prices are negatively correlated. These patterns hint that regional supply shocks are consequential for seafood prices in spite of the high degree of seafood tradability.

21st century fisheries management: A spatiotemporally explicit tariff-based approach combining multiple drivers and incentivising responsible fishing.

by Edward Codling

REPORT TO ASMFC COMMITTEE ON ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES: COMMERCIAL SECTOR REFERENCE DOCUMENT ON IDENTIFICATION AND PRIORITIZATION OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIOCULTURAL DATA ELEMENTS

by Patricia Clay

Compiled by sub-committee members: Theophilus Brainerd, Demet Haksever, Madeleine Hall-Arber, Chris Kellog, Andrew Kitts, David McCarron. Contributions to the Sociocultural portions made by Patricia Clay

Community Profiles for Northeast US Marine Fisheries

by Patricia Clay

Management Regions, Statistical Areas and Fishing Grounds: Criteria for Dividing up the Sea

by Patricia Clay

The delimitation of areas of the sea is common practice in fisheries management, particularly when addressing problems... more The delimitation of areas of the sea is common practice in fisheries management, particularly when addressing problems associated with size selection and by-catch issues. Fishermen, scientists and managers divide up the sea to delimit stock units, species ranges, nursery and fishing grounds, faunal boundaries and political jurisdictions. Biological, political, social and economic criteria are all used in establishing closed and restricted areas, delineating regional management zones and community specific grounds, and in setting area/stock specific management measures (e.g. quotas, minimum landing sizes, gear zones, etc.). The delimitation and configuration of these areas can lead to dissonance in fisheries management, particularly when the criteria used for management decisions affecting the spatial distribution of fishing are not those which fishermen consider to be critical. This paper discusses some of the criteria by which fishermen divide up the sea, compares these
criteria to some of those used in fisheries management, and discusses potential implications.

Anthropological Applications in the management of federally managed fisheries: Context, institutional history, and prospectus

by Patricia Clay

co-authored with Lisa L. Colburn and Susan Abbott-Jamieson

This special issue of Human Organization provides a selection of articles addressing the use of applied anthropology... more This special issue of Human Organization provides a selection of articles addressing the use of applied anthropology in fisheries
management in the United States today. NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has employed anthropologists
and sociologists internally and externally to support fisheries management since 1974, although it used economists earlier;
recent expansion of NMFS’ sociocultural analysis effort is generating new initiatives and findings of interest to the wider social science community. This introduction provides the background for this issue through a brief account of past, present, and future directions of this new growth area within applied anthropology. The origins and intent of the special issue are discussed first, followed by the institutional history of the integration of anthropologists and sociologists into fisheries management at NMFS and an outline of NMFS’ developing sociocultural analysis program. Finally, the specific policies and themes addressed in the individual papers are related to broader policy issues and themes within fisheries anthropology and fisheries management.

Utilizing social sciences in fisheries management

by Patricia Clay

co-authored with James R. McGoodwin

Historically, nation-state level fisheries management has relied primarily on the disciplines of biology, ecology, and... more Historically, nation-state level fisheries management has relied primarily on the disciplines of biology, ecology, and to some extent economics - usually in some combination, and with varying degrees of emphasis and success. Recently, as an increasing number of fisheries have begun to experience severe declines there has been increased interest in how social scientists might help to address some of these
problems. In managing fisheries, it is humans who must be understood and managed. Furthermore, some managers have begun to question the view of biological conservation as the primary goal of management, seeing economic and social goals as equally important. Social science studies of fisheries indicate that not all members of a given user group operate in the same way, or have the same impact on marine ecosystems. People's behavior is often influenced by family,
community, and other sociocultural variables in addition to economic and ecological considerations. Using
the perspectives and methodologies derived from disciplines such as anthropology and sociology, fisheries managers should be able to develop policies which integrate and balance economic, social and biological objectives. Management systems which are more compatible with broad user group values should result in higher compliance and reduced enforcement costs. An overview of recent social science research pertaining to fisheries management is discussed, and
examples presented on the relevance of social science information in crafting successful management regimes.