Recently added articles from Marine Fisheries Review:
History of Alaska red king crab, Paralithodes camtschaticus, bottom trawl surveys, 1940-61.(Survey)
Jan 01, 2009; Zimmermann, Mark ... Introduction The U.S. government was integrally involved with the development of Alaska's red king crab, Paralithodes camtschaticus, fishing industry (Blackford, 1979). In 1940 Congress appropriated funds for surveys of Alaska's fishery resources (Schmitt, 1940; FWS, 1942). ...
Overview of the U.S. east coast bottom longline shark fishery, 1994-2003.
Jan 01, 2009; Morgan, Alexia ... Introduction Shark exploitation in the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, sporadic throughout much of the twentieth century, has greatly increased over the last three decades. Shark stock assessments (NMFS (1,2,3)) have varied in their estimates of stock size, fishing mortality, ...
Catches of Humpback Whales, Megaptera novaeangliae, by the Soviet Union and other nations in the Southern Ocean, 1947-1973.
Jan 01, 2009; Clapham, Phil ... Introduction The great whales of the Southern Ocean were extensively exploited by modern whaling methods, with the first catches made in the Falkland Islands Dependencies region of IWC Management Area II in 1904 (Tonnesson and Johnsen,1982; Hart, 2006). Exploitation went through ...
A whale of a deception.
Jan 01, 2009; Clapham, Phil ... In late October of 1966, an imposing ship steamed quietly through the placid waters of the Suez Canal. Clad in drab industrial gray, and flying a Soviet hammer and sickle flag at her masthead, the vessel was accompanied by a large fleet of smaller craft. Any observer able to decipher ...