Marine resources, development

Ciguatera in the Paciflc Incidence and Implications for Marine Resource Development... 

It also has negative implications for nutrition and marine resource development. A review of the current situation in the Pacific, including Hawaii and Australia, is presented and the implications for small scale commercial fisheries are discussed. 

Many related variables effect both nutrition and marine resource development in the Pacific. A number of factors have contributed to a change in traditional dietary patterns, to different agricultural and fishing practices, and to a dependence on imported foodstuffs. Food preferences, particularly for refined carbohydrates, have... 

The direction that development of these islands will take is unclear at the present time because of the political situation. Ciguatera is not a severe problem in the Line Islands, but it is one that must be kept in mind as development schemes are implemented, not only because of the increased population dependent on the abundant marine resource, but because of the reef modification that may take place. At the present time, the government is planning to blast a channel through the reef at the new village site on Christmas Island. This could provide yet another valuable natural experiment. Turbinaria, one of the macroalgal substrates preferred G. toxicus is abundant at the site. 

Fenical W (1993) Chemical Studies of Marine Bacteria Developing a New Resource. Chem Rev 93 1673... 

Emphasis on development of local expertise to inform decision-makers about the sustainable development of marine resources and preservation of the marine domain. 

Fenical, W., Chemical studies of marine bacteria developing a new resource, Chem. Rev., 93, 1673, 1993. 

Smoot J. and Lowenstein T. (1991) Depositional environments of non-marine evaporites. In Evaporites, Petroleum, and Mineral Resources Developments in Sedimentology (ed. J. Melvin). Elsevier, New York, vol. 50, pp. 189-384. 

Marine resources that represent approximately half of the global biodiversity offer a colossal resource for novel bacterial species that produce useful natural products.7-10 Such tremendous bacterial diversity may be explained by the fact that bacteria are nearly as old as our planet, since these organisms have inhabited the Earth for more than 3.5 Ga (109 years). This fact is also a key to explain this massive diversity and evolution of bacterial metabolic pathways developed as survival, competition, and/or defense strategies, which, in turn, are translated in the production and secretion of natural products.11... 

Smoot, J. P. T. K. Lowenstein, 1991. Depositional environments of non-marine evaporites. In Melvin, J. L. (ed.) Evaporites, Petroleum and Mineral Resources. Developments in Sedimentology 50. Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Amsterdam, Holland 189-347. 

Balance orderly energy resource development with protection of the human, marine, and coastal environments ... 

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