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Development of a Community-Based Fishery Management System in Japan [PDF]

The development of Japan's community-based fishery management system is described. Over the past 250 years, three fishery laws were in effect. These fishery laws commonly adopted a fishing rights system as a tool for coastal fisheries management.
Yamamoto, Tadashi
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Bold Claims, Low Wages: Why Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) Struggle to Implement Living Wages

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Voluntary sustainability standards (VSS)—such as Fairtrade International and the Forest Stewardship Council—aim to improve sustainability in global supply chains by setting high social and environmental standards and certifying businesses that adopt them.
Elizabeth A. Bennett
wiley   +1 more source

Microplastic distribution and risk assessment in estuarine systems influenced by traditional villages and artisanal fishery activities. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Mendes DS, Silva DNN, Silva MG, Beasley CR, Fernandes MEB.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source

A Bioeconomic Analysis of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Lobster Fishery [PDF]

Several surplus production-based bioeconomic models are applied to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) commercial lobster fishery. The model which best explains the biological dynamics of the fishery is a modification of the Fox model developed by ...
Clarke, Raymond P., Yoshimoto, Stacey S., Pooley, Samuel G.   +2 more
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A Natural History of ‘Annoyances’: Knowing Weeds and Weeding Knowledge in the Early Royal Society and its ‘Georgicall Committee’

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Seventeenth‐century virtuosi often figured themselves as epistemic weeders, grubbing up rank thickets of accumulated error. In this article, I argue that these metaphors were unnerved by the shifting status of weeds—ostensibly unwanted plants from the margins of cultivated space, unploughed land or the disturbed soils between growing crops—in ...
Francis Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Structural Vector Error Correction Modeling of Integrated Sportfishery Data [PDF]

We demonstrate how to specify and estimate a time series model that can isolate the effects of changes in fishery policy and forecast the outcome of policy changes in the context of changing climate and economic factors.
Carter, David W., Letson, David
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“Is This Edible Anyway?” The Impact of Culture on the Evolution (and Devolution) of Mushroom Knowledge

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Mushrooms are a ubiquitous and essential component in our biological environment and have been of interest to humans around the globe for millennia. Knowledge about mushrooms represents a prime example of cumulative culture, one of the key processes in human evolution.
Andrea Bender, Åge Oterhals
wiley   +1 more source

High connectivity and genetic diversity in the Endangered endemic white-spotted sand bass 'camotillo' (Paralabrax albomaculatus) within the Galápagos Marine Reserve. [PDF]

BMC Ecol Evol
Griffiths SM, Bertolotti AC, Salinas-de-León P, Morris R, Truelove NK, Box S, Preziosi RF.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Optimal fishing effort for commercial catfish (Clarias gariepinus) fishery in the southeast arm of Lake Malawi: A Gordon-Schaefer model approach. [PDF]

PLoS One
Chamera F, Kamndaya M, Phepa P, Kadaleka S, Mwamtobe PM, Soko AO.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source