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Artisanal fishing of spiny lobsters with gillnets — A significant anthropic impact on tropical reef ecosystem

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Conservation, 2015
Artisanal fishing activity with gillnets to capture the spiny lobster is a common practice along the coastal reefs of Brazil. This research aims to understand the impact that this artisanal fishing practice is having on the coastal reef systems analysing
Bruno Welter Giraldes   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

La peche artisanale maritime en Cote d'Ivoire: le potentiel de peche [PDF]

open access: yes, 1983
The marine artisanal fishery in Ivory Coast covers all the continental shelf, with high activities around Abidjan and San-Pedro. Four types of fishing tackles are recorded: purse seines, beach seines, gillnets and lines.
Bouberi, D., Hie Dare, J.P., Konan, J.
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Biosurfactant production by Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from mining waste: From genomic analysis to development of a polymeric composite for removal of hexavalent chromium

open access: yesPolymer International, EarlyView.
Biosurfactant was produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa using andiroba waste from Amazonia. A biosurfactant–alginate composite (Alg/BioS) was successfully synthesized via ionotropic gelation, and achieved up to 70% Cr6+ removal from water. Abstract Environmental contamination by heavy metals represents a significant challenge due to their persistence in ...
Paulo Diniz Austriaco   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dangerous calling, the life-and-death matter of safety at sea: a collection of articles from SAMUDRA Report [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Fishing is arguably the world's most dangerous vocation, reporting the highest rate of occupational fatalities among industries, made only worse by declining fish prices, overfished waters and shortened fishing seasons.

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Capsicum chinense as an African traditional vegetable: Culture, resilience, and opportunity

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Capsicum chinense is central to everyday diets, cultural identity, and smallholder livelihoods across Sub‐Saharan Africa, yet remains overlooked in agricultural research and policy. This paper reframes C. chinense as a traditional, climate‐resilient vegetable shaped by centuries of farmer stewardship and cultural selection.
Derek W. Barchenger   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Technical Efficiency in the Malaysian Gill Net Artisanal Fishery [PDF]

open access: yes
Artisanal fishing communities include some of the poorest fishers in Malaysia. The paper presents the first technical efficiency study, whichfinds that artisanal fishers are poor, but enjoy a higher level of technical efficiency than found in the other ...
Dale Squires   +3 more
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"They Come, They Fish, and They Go:” EC Fisheries Agreements with Cape Verde and São Tomé e Príncipe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Fisheries agreements with the European Community (EC) are an important component of the fisheries sector in Cape Verde and São Tomé e Príncipe, constituting today a key source of income for the respective fisheries administration.
Carineiro, Goncalo
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The Jurisprudence of Artisanal Fishing Rights Revisited [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
However, despite this, claims advanced by indigenous peoples relating to rights to marine spaces have been met with marked lack of receptiveness. This book offers the first sustained study of these rights and their reception.
openaire   +1 more source

Multi‐Platform Deployments of Low‐Cost Devices for Cetacean Passive Acoustic Monitoring

open access: yesRemote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Recent advances in affordable, user‐friendly devices offer new opportunities to overcome cost constraints of underwater passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) and expand acoustic data collection. In this study, we deployed low‐cost acoustic recorders and underwater cameras across a range of platforms in the Western Mediterranean, including fishing gear ...
Greta Jankauskaite   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Justice in fishing territories: Human rights violations in artisanal fisheries analyzed by the Colombian Constitutional Court

open access: yesJournal of Political Ecology
Seas and inland waters have historically been spaces where social struggles have been overlooked and made invisible. This article offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the Colombian Constitutional Court decisions related to human rights violations in ...
Gina Noriega-Narváez   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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