84. Fishing Appliance from Ysabel Island (Bugotu)

Illegal Silver pomfret, Pampus argenteus (Euphrasen, 1788), fishing by Fixed gill-nets in Qeshm Island waters (Hormozgan province)

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the illegal Silver pomfret catch by fixed gill-nets in Hormozgan inshore waters (Qeshm Island). Sampling was performed in Bandar Laft estuaries through three fishing boats between April to July 2015. The fishing gears were the nylon mono-filament fixed gill-net with 6.5 cm mesh size (bar), 200 m length and 8-10 m height. The non-parametric bootstrap ...

Processing insect abundance: trading and fishing of zazamushi in Central Japan (Nagano Prefecture, Honshū Island)

BACKGROUND This article presents the links between technique, commerce and consumption in fishing for zazamushi, a mixture of aquatic insect larvae sold as food souvenirs in Japan. Since zazamushi are mainly collected for economic reasons, we suggest that demand for them has incited technical development among collectors in order to fish more insects. METHODS Several fishermen and traders wer...

Deep Fishing: Gradient Features from Deep Nets

Convolutional Networks (ConvNets) have recently improved image recognition performance thanks to end-to-end learning of deep feed-forward models from raw pixels. Deep learning is a marked departure from the previous state of the art, the Fisher Vector (FV), which relied on gradient-based encoding of local hand-crafted features. In this paper, we discuss a novel connection between these two appr...

Editorial: Fishing for Human Perceptions in Coastal and Island Marine Resource Use Systems

Fishing out Winners from Vote Streams

We investigate the problem of winner determination from computational social choice theory in the data stream model. Specifically, we consider the task of summarizing an arbitrarily ordered stream of n votes on m candidates into a small space data structure so as to be able to obtain the winner determined by popular voting rules. As we show, finding the exact winner requires storing essentially...