Marine mammals and sea turtles in the United States are protected from commercial fishery interactions under the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act. To reduce harbor porpoise bycatch in the northeast sink gillnet fishery, fishermen are mandated to attach pingers to their nets in regulated areas. Although, pinger regulations have been in place for over a decade, in pract...

Objective: Examine indication of alcoholism in artisanal fisher folk victims of Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) by diving through the application of the CAGE questionnaire. Method: Sectional study and analytical, with a quantitative approach, carried out between October 2013 and August 2014. The sample was composed of 44 fishermen who suffered SCI for diving. The data were collected by means of a stru...

Years of EU fishing catch restrictions have failed to stem the decline of many once abundant species in the northeast Atlantic and fishermen and conservationists are pressing for change.

Berau District has potential for demersal fisheries such as grouper, snapper and octopus. Demersal fish are that usually live in a zone, the bottom of sea or lake. This is an important economical City. However, with so many requests, supplies depleting over time, firm efforts needed to bridge supply demand issues sustainable eco-friendly blue economy activities. The aims this study (1) analyze ...

The present article focuses on the background and socio-economic conditions of fisher folk in coastal district of Ganjam. The study was a component of Potential Fishing Zone (PFZ) utilization and validation programme funded by Indian National Center for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS). The feedback was collected during 2003-2005 by means of one-to-one interaction and awareness campaigns con...

Fishing is one of the best known and practiced human activities. However, you should remember that, when casting the hook from the riverbank or grasping it to add bait, fishermen run a real risk of injury if the hook punctures the skin.Briefly we describe a case where a young, 32-year-old fisherman who was reeling the hook back to shore when it hit him in the face and embedded itself in his upp...

A one-year retrospective study among Danish commercial fishermen revealed that the overall rate of injury was 20.4 per 100 persons per year. There were no significant differences in injury rates related to age. The overall rates of injury related to the different types of vessels-trawlers, gill-netters and Danish seiners-did differ statistically when the number of man-days at sea was taken into...

This study aims to identify and inventory the fishing units in Tanjung Solok Village, Kuala Jambi District, Jabung Timur Regency. research was conducted June-July 2021. The method used this is a survey method, with direct observations field conducting interviews fishermen noting by Village. sampling census of 106 who have domiciled data collected include general biographical fishermen, ships or...