In the last decades, a number of studies based on historical records revealed the diversity loss in the oceans and human-induced changes to marine ecosystems. These studies have improved our understanding of the human impacts in the oceans. They also drew attention to the shifting baseline syndrome and the importance of assessing appropriate sources of data in order to build the most reliable e...

Dermatitis is an infection that occurs on the skin which characterized by red nodules and itching. Fishermen are one of workers who most likely to suffer from dermatitis. The purpose this research analyze relationship between use APD incidence dermatitis experienced fishermen due work. method used a literature review, collection several daily articles 2018-2022 using keywords "The impact work w...

The traveller, George Shelvocke, sailing along the coast of South America in 1718, wrote: " whales, grampuses, and other fish of a monstrous bulk, are in such numbers off the coast of Patagonia that they were really offensive to us very often. For they would come sometimes so close to us as to stifle us with their stench when they blew, and would lie so near us that I have frequently thought it...

In this paper we propose a discrete-time dynamic model for studying the time evolution of fish stocks in an aquatic environment divided into two adjacent patches. Each area is characterized by a different fishing policy: an imposed constant fishing effort in a patch and oligopolistic competition in the other one, where fishermen are free to decide their harvesting on the basis of “boundedly rat...

INTRODUCTION The majority (67%) of hospitalized injuries among Alaska commercial fishermen are associated with deck machinery. This paper describes the "Prevention Through Design" process to mitigate one serious machinery entanglement hazard posed by a capstan deck winch. METHODS After observing that the capstan winch provides no entanglement protection and the hydraulic controls are usually ...

There are approximately a million subsistence fishermen in Brazil whose activities expose them to severe occupational hazards without adequate health protection. This article conducts an analysis of working conditions and health risks faced by subsistence fishermen and outlines challenges to the implementation of Occupational Health Surveillance (VISAT) actions. The methodology is based on qual...

BACKGROUND AND AIM The aim of the study was to assess the intelligence quotient of fishermen school children of Kutch, Gujarat, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 8 to 10 years old school children living in Kutch District, Gujarat, India, from January to February 2013. Seguin Form Board Test was used to assess the intelligence quotient (IQ) le...