Browsing by Subject "Fishery management"
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Dissecting Co-management - An Examination of Fishermen Involvement in Fisheries Management in Nova Scotia, Canada
This research provides a systematic assessment of fishermen involvement, by first disaggregating fisheries management into its various components, allowing for a more nuanced understanding of the realities of co-management, ... -
Elasmobranch Bycatch in the Canadian Northwest Atlantic and Arctic Adjacent Seas: Composition, Biogeography, and Mitigation
(2015-03-31)BACKGROUND: Industrial fishing has profoundly changed the biological state of oceans and seas. While the direct impacts of overfishing on target stocks are being increasingly addressed, unwanted bycatch and discarding of ... -
Elucidating the decline of North American Atlantic salmon with a time-dependent matrix model
North American Atlantic salmon populations have declined significantly since the 1990s, especially the elder life stages. The total average number of returned two-sea-winter (2SW) in the period 1997 to 2007 dropped by 57% ... -
Genomic Perspectives for Conservation and Management of Atlantic Cod in Coastal Labrador
This thesis examines genomic differentiation between the Gilbert Bay and offshore Atlantic Cod populations in Newfoundland and Labrador. First, I determine whether the Gilbert Bay cod population qualifies as a conservation ... -
Modelling phase shifts in a rocky subtidal ecosystem
(Inter-Research, Nordbuente 23 Oldendorf/Luhe 21385 Germany, [mailto:ir@int-res.com], [URL:http://www.int-res.com/], 2008-03)The rocky subtidal ecosystem of the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia is characterised by 2 community states, kelp beds and urchin barrens that alternate on a decadal time scale. While the shift from barrens to a kelp bed ... -
The natural history of fisheries management
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Reflections on the failure of traditional fisheries management
(2017-01)A traditional fisheries management or fish stock assessment takes a Lamarckian-like instructive view of fisheries science that involves an inductive monism. Its invalid inductive arguments have no problem solving capacity ... -
A tale of two standards: A case study of the Fair Trade certified Maluku handline caught tuna (Thunnus albacares) fishery [graduate project].
(2016)Fishery certification programs and ecolabels have emerged as a method for promoting the sustainability of global fisheries. The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification program is considered the largest, most recognized ... -
Using Adaptive and Fisheries Management to Increase MPA Success: A Case Study of the Gilbert Bay MPA [graduate project].
(2016)The Gilbert Bay Marine Protected Area (MPA) was established in 2005 with the purpose of conserving the genetically discrete Gilbert Bay cod subpopulation. However, following the implementation of the MPA the cod subpopulation ...
