Fishery resources

Hall, R.A., E.G. Zook, and G.M. Meaburn. 1978. National Marine Fisheries Service survey of trace elements in the fishery resources. U.S. Dep. Comm. NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS SSRF-721. 313 pp. 

Stockner JG, Rydin E, Hyenstrand P (2000) Cultural oligotrophication causes and consequences for fisheries resources. Fisheries 25(5) 7-14... 

The Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MFCMA) of 1976, as amended, is the most significant fisheries legislation in the nation s 200-year history. It provides for the conservation and exclusive management by the U.S. of all fishery resource within the Fishery Conservation Zone or FCZ which extends 200 nautical miles from our shores. The land area equivalent to the U.S. FCZ is approximately 3.6 million square miles. It has afforded an unprecedented opportunity for U.S. commercial and recreational fishermen to reach new levels of production and to expand further their already significant contributions to the nation s food supply and economy. 

The NMFS role in fisheries development is catalytic in nature by encouraging and assisting in the achievement of full utilization of U.S. fishery resources to derive maximum economic and social benefits from those resources under U.S. jurisdiction. In practical terms, this will require greater initiative on the part of the commercial and recreational fishing industries to utilize America s non-traditional fish species, while the Federal Government will work to reduce foreign fishing in our fishery conservation zone and remove or reduce other impediments. 

Not every fishing system works as well and preserves fish as long as the ones used in Iceland and Norway. Spoilage at sea is very common and contributes substantially to the loss of fishery resources. Several factors affect the keeping quality of fish held cai trawlers. One factor is the temperature of the water from which the catch is taken. Fish from hi temperature water needs less chilling to inhibit enzyme activity fish from very low temperature waters need very low temperature chilling to retard enzyme activity (13). 

Figure 3. Reconstructions of (A) diatom-based and (B) chrysophyte-based monomeric Al for Big Moose Lake, and diatom-based monomeric Al for (C) Deep Lake, (D) Upper Wallface Pond, and (E) Windfall Pond in the Adirondack Mountains, New York. Reconstructions are bounded by bootstrapping estimates of the root mean-squared error of prediction for each sample. Bars to the right of each reconstruction indicate historical (H) and Chaoborus-based (C) reconstructions of fishery resources. The historical fish records are not continuous, unlike the paleolimnological records. Intervals older than 1884 are dated by extrapolation. (Reproduced with permission from reference 10.

Oceanologists and waste-handling professionals presently are attempting to answer the question, How can society use the ooeans for waste disposal without harming the marine environment or fisheries resources Much research remains, and numerous oilier questions remain unanswered. 

Takahashi, K. 2005. Health foods, pharmaceutical, medical, cosmetics materials contained in fisheries by-products. In Sakaguchi, M. and Hirata, T. (Eds.), Advanced technologies in utilizing fisheries resources (p. 67). Tokyo N.T.S. Corp. (In Japanese). 

Davis, J.C. and Hoos, R.A.W. (1975) Use of sodium pentachlorophenate and dehydroabietic acid as reference toxicants for salmonid bioassays. Journal of the Fisheries Resources Board of Canada, 32, 411M16. 

Nehring, D., Schulz, S., Rechlin, O., 1989. Eutrophication and fishery resources in the Baltic. Rapports et Proces-verbaux des Reunion. Conseil Permanent International pour I Exploration de la Mer, 190, 198-205. 

The Gdansk Convention was issued to protect the fisheries resources of the Baltic Sea and the Belts and to accomplish their rational utilization by a close cooperation between the Contracting Parties of the Convention. The Gdansk Convention covered all waters of the Baltic Sea and the Belts (excluding internal waters) and all fish species and other living marine resources in the Convention Area. 

Figure 5 Effects of hypoxia on fishery resources and the benthic communities that support them. Upper right Dead demersal and bottom-dwelling fishes killed by the encroachment of near-anoxic waters onto a Grand Isle, Louisiana, beach in August 1990. Photo provided by K. M. St. Pe. Lower right dead spider crab family Majidae) at sediment surface. Photo provided by Franklin Viola. Lower left dead polychaete (family Spionidae) and filamentous sulfur bacteria. Photo provided by Franklin Viola.

These early observations perhaps would have had greater significance, but the fishery resources in Lake Michigan were at a low ebb, having suffered over-exploitation by commercial fishermen, the invasion of the sea lamprey, and finally by the population explosion of an invading fish species, the alewife (13). Within a few years the alewife population in... 

YASUDA T (1988) Studies on the common jelly-fish, Aurelia aurita (Linne). Otokyo Japanese Fisheries Resource Conservation Association. 

BELL J D, LEBER K M, BLANKENSHIP H L, LONERAGAN N R and MASUDA R (2008) A new era for restocking, stock enhancement and sea ranching of coastal fisheries resources. Reviews in Fisheries Science, 16,1-9. 

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