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The habitats exploited and the species trapped in a Caribbean island trap fishery

Environmental Biology of Fishes, 2004
We visually observed fish traps in situ to identify the habitats exploited by the U.S. Virgin Islands fishery and to document species composition and abundance in traps by habitat. Fishers set more traps in algal plains than in any other habitat around St. John. Coral reefs, traditionally targeted by fishers, accounted for only 16 % of traps.
Virginia Garrison, Caroline Rogers, Jim Beets, Alan Friedlander   +3 more
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Does Lobster Trap Bait Influence the Maine Inshore Trap Fishery?

North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 2002
Abstract The potential role of lobster trap bait as a significant food subsidy contributing to unprecedented recent increases in abundance and landings of the American lobster Homarus americanus is seldom considered seriously outside the fishing community.
Saila, Saul B., Nixon, Scott W., Oviatt, Candace A.   +2 more
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The 'fishery' in South Africa's remaining coastal stonewall fish traps

African Journal of Marine Science, 2009
Ancient stonewall fish traps along the southern coast of South Africa, known locally as ‘vywers’,  have both cultural and historical significance.  Most have been degraded through neglect. Only two sets of vywers are actively maintained and fished, but without legal sanction. We surveyed historical and present-day fishing techniques and  catches in the
Kemp, LV, Branch, GM, Attwood, CA, Lamberth, SJ   +3 more
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Social-ecological traps in reef fisheries

Global Environmental Change, 2011
[Extract] There is a long history of research on social traps, which are situations where individuals or even whole societies "get started in some direction or some set of relationships that later prove to be unpleasant or lethal and that they see no easy way to back out or to avoid" (Platt, 1973, p. 641).
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Creation of a Gilded Trap by the High Economic Value of the Maine Lobster Fishery

Conservation Biology, 2011
Abstract:  Unsustainable fishing simplifies food chains and, as with aquaculture, can result in reliance on a few economically valuable species. This lack of diversity may increase risks of ecological and economic disruptions. Centuries of intense fishing have extirpated most apex predators in the Gulf of Maine (
R S, Steneck, T P, Hughes, J E, Cinner, W N, Adger, S N, Arnold, F, Berkes, S A, Boudreau, K, Brown, C, Folke, L, Gunderson, P, Olsson, M, Scheffer, E, Stephenson, B, Walker, J, Wilson, B, Worm   +15 more
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Effort measurement in the trap fisheries for crustacea

1975
This publication is part of Rapport et Proces-Verbaux des Reunions Vol. 168. To see all other articles in this volume, please click on the keyword "RPVR Vol. 168".
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Low cost light traps for coral reef fishery research and sustainable ornamental fisheries [PDF]

Naga, 2002
Two relatively inexpensive light traps to capture pre-settling reef fish and invertebrates are described. A trap made from a plastic bucket (with plastic bottles, a small plastic waste bin and two sheets of plywood) that costs US$15 appears to be just as effective as a large aluminium and plexiglass trap that costs US$275.
Watson, M, Power, R, Simpson, SD, Munro, JL   +3 more
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Simulation modelling of capture processes in trap fisheries for clawed lobsters

Marine and Freshwater Research, 1998
Lobster stock assessments are difficult because trap catch rates cannot be assumed to be proportional to abundance. A simulation model has been developed to consider the factors that might contribute to trap sampling bias. In the presence of trap saturation due to behavioural interactions at the trap, the model predicts an asymptotic relationship ...
Julian T. Addison, Michael C. Bell
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U.S. Caribbean Fish Trap Fishery costs and earnings study

2006
Executive Summary:This study describes the socio-economic characteristics of the U.S. Caribbean trap fishery that encompasses the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and Territory of the U.S. VirginIslands. In-person interviews were administered to one hundred randomly selected trap fishermen, constituting nearly 25% of the estimated population. The sample was
Agar, J. J., Shivlani, M., Waters, J. R., Valdes-Pizzini, M., Murray, T., Kirkley, J., Suman, D.   +6 more
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The Transitional Gains Trap in Grandfathered Individual Transferable Quota Fisheries

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
Conor Byrne, Maartje Oostdijk, Sveinn Agnarsson, Brynhildur Davidsdottir   +3 more
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